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Derryl teaches us the “3-1-3” concept. I HIGHLY recommend Derryls DVDs… CLICK HERE TO CHECK THEM OUT !!! Derryl: First of all, I just want to say hey to everybody out there in guitar land. The 3-1-3 concept, how that came about was I first seen that in the Frank and Bali [phonetic] video. He …
Hey, what’s up? It’s Claude Johnson here and I just came up with a really cool pentatonic idea that I want to share with you. Check it out. So I want to show you this new way of using pentatonic scales. Normally we kind of tend to go up and down the scale, like A …
Here’s a cool lick that you can try out… Sounds best when played pretty fast. Of interest is how we can get from one position to another by sliding around… Also notice how we start in a G mixolydian tonality (using the F natural) but end up using the F# (G major tonality) at the …
Hey, how’s it going? I’m Claude Johnson and today I want to talk about hammer-ons from nowhere. This is a technique where you’re going to be hammering-on to a string, but the note that you played before it was on a different string. So if we have this real simple, descending lick, basically three notes …
Phrasing on the guitar can mean how you’re playing a lick rhythmically… But it can also refer to the subtleties that you add to the notes — hammerons, pullofs, bends, vibrato, harmonics..etc. Here’s a cool way to use slides when you’re playing lead. Check it out:
Hey, its Claude Johnson and today’s guitar lesson is Diatonic Legato Licks Part 2. Okay now, with these legato licks keep in mind that even though you’re not picking, it might be harder on the left hand because you’ve really got to get those hammer-ons and pull-offs in there to make the notes sound correctly. …
Hey, how’s it going this is Claude Johnson with Guitar Control, back with another Lick of the Day Lesson for you. In the last lesson we did a Slash inspired lick that was almost in the shred zone and today we’re going to go back to the basics and do a bluesy, bendy kind of …
A video lesson I was inspired to do today… Enjoy.
Want to play Shred licks? Many players would agree that alternate picking chops are the foundation of “Shredding”… And almost all the teachers, from me, to Silvio Gazquez, to Paul Gilbert, all advocate building up your picking chops on a single string, first. But where do you go from there? And how do you play …