hi Friend, I really need your advice! I need to line up some killer teachers and instruction for later this year! I have 2 questions for you: 1. What do you want to learn this year? Lead guitar? Acoustic blues? Jazz? Metal? Beginner stuff ? Advanced? Arepggios? Scales? Techniques? Songwriting? what? 🙂 2. Is there …
Acoustic blues is an awesome guitar style that everyone seems to enjoy playing these days. The basic thing, the most easiest way to get started, is to learn the *shuffle pattern*. Shuffle patterns are VERY common in blues… so although a lot of you folks might already know this, check it out anyway 🙂 How’s …
hi Friend, Everyone and their grandma loves them some down-home acoustic blues geetar playin… There’s a LOT to it, but just to get you started with the basics, Jon Maclennan has uploaded a sweet lesson on the basic blues shuffle… Check it out! VIDEO LESSON OF THE DAY While you’re there on my blog, there’s …
What would say if I told you that you can get high quality, high-paying gigs (playing your guitar)… …without contacts, without a press kit, without a demo, and without experience? the real secrets about getting gigs and booking shows come from a friend of mine who has a special presentation for you. It’s about 15 …
hi Friend, What would say if I told you that you can get high quality, high-paying gigs (playing your guitar)… …without contacts, without a press kit, without a demo, and without experience? You’d probably think I’m crazier than a sh*t house rat, right? lol… Well, suspend your disbelief because I’m about to show you how. …
Hey, guys. Claude Johnson here from guitarcontrol.com and today I just want to show you this strumming pattern. I’ve shown this a couple of times in the past in Chord Mastery and also the Ultimate Beginner Guitar Course. If you’re familiar with my teachings, then you’ve probably seen this before. But I just want to …
hi Friend, I was just going over this old blues tune yesterday and I noticed that I can use one of my favorite strum patterns… I’ve used this pattern before but not in this context… So I shot a little video to show you. Check it out! VIDEO LESSON OF THE DAY Cool cool cool! …
Hey, guys. Claude Johnson here from guitarcontrol.com and today I just want to show you this little sliding thing. I call it the modern slide vibrato. I’ve seen a lot of guys use this technique, modern fusion guys, in recent years have use this and it’s like you get that vibrato effect because you’re going …
hi Friend, This is one technique I never saw in any traditional “guitar guides”… I call it the “modern slide vibrato”… It’s something that only the hippest guitar cats do 🙂 As always, the Johnsonater is here for you, to “decode” the latest and greatest. Check out the video I just shot this morning: VIDEO …
hi Friend, A couple months back, I was sitting reading a guitar magainze and saw a cool article about a dude name “Jonathon Boogie Long”. He was the 2011 winner of Guitar Centers’ “King of the Blues” contest. Please don’t confuse “Guitar Control” (which is us) with “Guitar Center”, the national chain of guitar super …