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How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, excited to bring you this lesson. We’re looking at a little bit of a Latin Montuno here. A lot of Latin music is very much based on the rhythm. When you’re soloing over like montuno sections and stuff, a lot of times …
How’s it going, guys? My name is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. What we’re looking at right now is an exercise just using our thumb. I like to use the thumb when I’m playing all the time to play notes on the lower strings. The more you use …
How’s it going, guys? My name is John McClennanand I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, excited tobring you this video lesson. We’re looking atJohn Coltrane’s standard, “Giant Steps” today.I’m showing you some chords. We’ve been workingthrough the first four bars of the tune, and nowwe’re going to work through the cycle of chordsthat begins on the next …
How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, excited to bring you this lesson. We’re looking at the chord progression to the first four bars of “Giant Steps”, John Coltrane’s epic tune. What I’m going to do is just show you some voicings here. Be sure to click the link …
Hey, how’s it going this is Jon McLennan with Guitar Control, . What I want to show you today is just a basic samba pattern for guitar. I’m thinking of this in two beats per measure is just 1, 2; 1, 2 and the chord that I’m going to use in the example are in …
How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. We just looked at a George Benson style octave lick and just a real funky, earthy blues lick that sounded like this. Now I’m going to show you another George Benson trick which is, instead of just playing the …
Hey, how’s it going this is Jon McLennan with Guitar Control, I want to show you a great George Benson style octave lick that utilizes the bluesand it’s pretty funky. We’re playing this off a D7 chord and here’s a good voicing or a D9 here.I’ve got 9th fret, 10th fret, 9th fret, 10th fret. …
How’s it going, guys? John McClennan here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. We’re looking at a montuno, this time in the key of C major. We were looking at a few in A minor and now we’re going to get a major variation to what we were playing before. We’re going to start …
How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. Here’s a great blues ending lick that you can use. We’re playing in the key of G and we start out by hitting that bass note; I use my thumb. The root note and then a slide …
How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan andI’m here with guitarcontrol.com, showing youanother lick here from one of the masters,Wes Montgomery. This is a great lick. I love it.It’s from a tune called “Missile Blues” and thispart of the lick is so great because it sounds likea bluesy pentatonic line harmonized with diminished chords. …