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What’s happening, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. I’m showing you a Howard Roberts chord lick today and if you’re not familiar with the jazz guitar player Howard Roberts, you should check him out, a phenomenal player and I think pretty underrated. He was a studio …
Please check out Jon´s course in DVD `PLAY FROM THE HEART´ How’s it going everybody? My name is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video blog. What I’m showing you today is an octave lick in the style of Wes Montgomery. So let’s dive right in. Here we are on a …
Please check out Jon´s course in DVD `PLAY FROM THE HEART´ Hi. I’m John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video blog. What I’m going to show you today is a real nice way of outlining a minor chord in octaves, a la Wes Montgomery. Again, with Wes Montgomery, he played with …
How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, excited to bring you this lesson. What we’re working on right now is a jazz chord lick. This is just something that could be played all over a G major chord. What I dig about this is on top there’s a melody …
How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennanhere with guitarcontrol.com, bringingyou this video lesson. I want to show you sort ofa Django-style comping. Definitely an old school way.You’ll hear it in jazz as well. We’re going to start on a G major 7 here: 3rd fret,4th fret, 4th fret, 3rd fret, and on all thesechords …
Hey, how’s it going this is Jon McLennan with Guitar Control, we’re looking at a chord progression that moves through a jazz turnaround with a walking bass line. So I have the chords, tabs and then the bass line keeps walking through everything. The turnaround is one of the most common chord progressions in jazz. …
What’s happening, guys? This is John McClennanand I’m here with guitarcontrol.com excited tobring you this video lesson. Today we’re lookingat a 3 note style of rhythm playing, 3 note chord,and this is something that’s just very common,you might use in a combo band or a trio settingjust for comping and just in all different kindsof …
Hey, guys? This is John McClennan andI’m here with guitarcontrol.com bringingyou this video blog. We’re looking at anotherblues intro today in the key of A, A blues. And we’re going to start up here on thisgreat lick where I’m utilizing hybrid pickingwhere I play with the pick and the fingers,but here we’ve got 10 and …
How’s it going, guys? My name is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com bringing you this video lesson. Today’s lesson is catered towards a little bit more of a beginner. Let’s say that you’re just getting started playing chords and you don’t know which ones to learn. Maybe you’re looking things up on the …
How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennanand I’m here with guitarcontrol.com showingyou an acoustic blues lick today. I love playingblues on acoustic guitar and this could be usedin a G blues or just played over a G7 chord. Here’s a nice thumb voicing for a G9. I’m playing3rd fret, 2nd fret, 3rd fret, 2nd …