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Hey, guys. Claude Johnson here from guitarcontrol.com and today I just want to show you this strumming pattern. I’ve shown this a couple of times in the past in Chord Mastery and also the Ultimate Beginner Guitar Course. If you’re familiar with my teachings, then you’ve probably seen this before. But I just want to …
Hey, guys. Claude Johnson here from guitarcontrol.com and today I just want to show you this little sliding thing. I call it the modern slide vibrato. I’ve seen a lot of guys use this technique, modern fusion guys, in recent years have use this and it’s like you get that vibrato effect because you’re going …
It’s always good to be able to switchup your rhythm playing by changingfrom strumming to fingerpicking. One problem is that it can be a painin the butt to memorize these fingerpickingpatterns. But I have one that’s so simple, it’shard to forget it. It’s only a four note pattern andit works great! Check it out. Okay, …
Here’s a cool little lick I came up with. The key is hybrid picking — use your middle finger of your picking hand to pluck the high E string in an upwards direction, for each note that is played on the high E string. You’ll also be using pulloffs and slides. Did you check out …
Hey, just wanted to share these two guitar solos that I recently recorded. To make a long story short, I recorded these as background music for a presentation I’m putting together to promote Guitar Control, so that’s why there’s no video. But I think they came out great… Please enjoy and let me know what …
As promised, here’s some pics from our “special day”… Click on a pic to enlarge. Thanks for checking it out. Us on our wedding day With my parents, my brother and his family Playing a Beautiful Song for my wife
Hey, how’s it going this is Claude Johnson with Guitar Control, I want to talk about “hybrid picking”, which is basically using your pick and your other fingers of your picking hand and you can do some cool stuff like playing a simple chord progression, kind of make it cool. So let me show you …
Ok, so I’m still waiting on my wedding pics… but… I want to tell you about a VERY special gift I got from one of my heroes. I’ve been a Dan Aykroyd fan ever since I was a kid – watching “Trading Places” with me and my brother… I had it recorded from TV on …
” alt=”” title=”sep-15-blog-post”class=”alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1272″ /> Hey guys, Claude Johnson here and today I want to talk about improvising and creating new and different sounds on the guitar. Let’s take the key of A. If I asked you to play a lick in the key of A, there’s a good chance you’d start-off somewhere here. …
