Howdy everybody, Crawford Smith here with a sweet little country lead guitar lesson. Today’s lick showcases a technique that country lead players use quite a bit to emulate the sound of lap or pedal steel guitars. To mimic the fluid sound of steel guitar players sliding between notes, country lead players will often do a …
The main thing anyone needs to keep in mind when trying to give kids guitar lessons is that kids need to be entertained at all times. It’s hard to explain to kids that hours of boring practice will have the awesome result of improved guitar technique. When teaching young kids, you have to keep their …
Hey y’all, it’s Crawford Smith here with a lesson on jazz soloing. Today we’re going to take a look at the bebop scale. This scale, which was invented by Charlie Parker and other bebop pioneers but named by the author David Baker, is a variant on the mixolydian mode. It’s a great scale to have …
Jazz guitar can seem intimidating to newcomers. It often uses complex chords and harmonic structures, and learning the intricacies of jazz theory can take a long time. Fortunately, there are some tricks you can use to fake being way more knowledgeable about Jazz than you actually are! One foolproof trick is to have a set …
Hey, how’s it going this is Claude Johnson with Guitar Control, I’m going to teach you how to play the song called “Horse with no name” by America. This song doesn’t have very many chords we’ve got an E minor chord, we’ve got this chord which is a D, ad 9, D6 ad 9, but …
Trying to make a living as a guitarist is hard. There’s a lot of us out there, and an ever-dwindling amount of money in the music industry. Fortunately, you can make money teaching guitar lessons to supplement whatever you make as a performer. Teaching guitar is a good option because you can charge very nice …
When you are first starting to play guitar, you quickly get the urge to play the songs you love. Why wouldn’t you? Sure, learning chords and proper hand technique is all well and good, but you didn’t pick the the guitar to learn hand positioning! You picked up the guitar to rock. Fortunately, the internet …
Hey, do you have the blues? I’m not talking about the kind you take Prozac for either. I mean the Stevie Ray Vaughn and Robert Johnson type of blues. Its okay, I have them too. Darrin Goodman here with some lessons for you to check out on some popular blues guitar songs so you can …
Greetings guitar guys and gals, Darrin Goodman here with another mini guitar lesson, today I’m going to be talking about the blues guitar scale. The blues scale is actually just a modified pentatonic scale, so let’s start with that first. The pentatonic scale is a five tone musical scale that is found all over the …
Hello fellow guitar enthusiasts, Darrin Goodman here with some more tasty guitar tidbits for you. Today I’m going to talk about beginner electric guitar lessons and what they may entail. Some people say that a beginner should start out on an acoustic guitar, but I don’t agree with that, you can start on an electric …