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hey Friend, Like the beach boys sang about: “I get bored driving up and down the same old strip”… Sometimes we guitarists get bored playing up and down the same old riff 🙂 I think you’ll dig today’s video, because i’m gonna show you a neat way to “get around” the fretboard. Before i get …
hey Friend, Not to be confused with: Freddie King, Freddie Mercury,Peter Green, Grant Green or Green Day… Today I want to talk about a dude called Freddie Green. If you’re a jazz cat, you may alreadyknow who he is. For the uninitiated, he was a jazzand big-band guitarist and playedwith Count Bassie. His contribution to …
hey Friend, Sitting here in my office, sippingon my new favorite beverage… (i’lltell you what is in a future email)… …and I just uploaded another shortvideo lesson from my new course:Supercharged Soloing Made Simple. Now, I want to make one thingcrystal clear: This course is NOT just a collectionof licks. Well, I do show a …
hey Friend, This is something that I rarely hear other guitar teachers talk about… Maybe they have different names for it, but it’s a concept that I call “melodic textures”. …so listen up: I have a very cool “YouTube Contest” for you today! The video today shows this soloing concept and it comes from my …
hey Friend, On one particular day back in high school, I was in one of those unavoidable debates about who’s the best guitar player. My favorite was of course Hendrix, but my friend preferred Jimmy Page. Eventually, he conceded that “ok maybe Hendrix is the best guitarist, but Jimmy Page is the best stoned-out guitarist”. …
hey Friend, I’m never quite sure what folks want to learn next… I thought I picked something today that many players are interested in — and that is learning how to play rhythm and lead together. Feel free to reply to this email and let me know what you’d like to see more of… and …
hey Friend, This is one of those crazy true stories… I guess stranger things have happened, but… first let me mention that I’m preparing a sweet little video for you… It’s actually a rhythm guitar lesson that I think you’ll really get a lot out of. I’ll have that up for you tomorrow. Meanwhile, I …
hey Friend, I’ve always been about “playing from the heart”. However, in my new soon-to-be-released course called Supercharged Soloing Made Simple, I introduce a totally new approach to playing leads and solos. It’s something I call “fluency”. There’s an interesting paradox because on the one hand, we want to play what we hear, and not …
hey Friend, I’m glad to be back in the swing of things here in Rhode Island. Nice little vacation last week. Was hanging out on the Jersey shore… I actually won $20 playing craps at the Borgata casino… woo hoo… hit the beach, got a little color… and then we visited a friend of my …
hey Friend, So this has been all over the news forthe last month: Government spying.I’m going to go on a real ranttoday, so get ready lol… ———————————-By the way, if you’d rather learn someguitar stuff than listen to my rant,then by all means: Check out today’s lesson where Johnny Macshows us some groovy jazz stuff …