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.
