hi Friend, One of the most powerful (and least understood) guitar skills is the art of HEARING CHORD CHANGES. CRITICAL for learning songs and writing em too… QUICK STORY: Ealier this week, I called up my friend Kenny to see if he had any ideas for what I could send you for a lesson. Now, …
Hey, guys. Claude Johnson here and I want to talk about spicing-up your basic pentatonic scale with all 12 notes. All right, so let’s go to the key of A, got our basic pentatonic sound. Now, if you’re not familiar with this basic scale, please check out my beginner course called “Killer Lead Guitar Made …
hi Friend, In my last email I gave you a little “cheat sheet” or list of ways you can expand on playing a basic pentatonic scale. I thought this lesson was too important NOT to give you a video, so here goes — I think you’ll find this very interesting. LESSON: SOLOING WITH ALL 12 …
hi Friend, I want to talk for a minute about using all 12 tones (all the notes) in your playing. The reason you would want to do this is to make your playing more interesting. Actually, I think the BEST way to make your playing interesting is just play from the heart. That’s what I …
Now, the key part of this is getting the rhythm andit’s not quite so much like a country picking stylewhere you have to alternate really vigorously betweenbass notes. You don’t have to do that. It’s more likethe open E and of course the high E allows you to leaveopen strings and just kind of use …
hi Friend, Today I want to show you a new lesson that I call “Easy Picking Idea”. It’s a nice acoustic lick from Sol Philcox… EASY PICKING LESSON This is great because you can really create some nice sounds even on one chord. I really dig when that happens 🙂 Check it out! And i’ll …
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hi Friend, I’m excited because I (finally) created a facebook page for Guitar Control. Can you do me a favor and give me a big fat “LIKE”? Pleeeaaaasee 🙂 CONNECT WITH ME ON FACEBOOK Pretty please with sugar on top take a second for your ol’ pal Claudius. Thanks! I’ll be sharing certain things on …
hi Friend, Most people of think of “wanna-be” as a negative thing. But I believe you HAVE to go through a stage of copying your heroes in order to eventually get to a place where you can create original sounds. I was lying in bed earlier today, contemplating the nature of the “brain to hand” …
hi Friend, For the last few years — a lot of people are hurting. No doubt about it. The economy has been “sideways” for years and it doesn’t look like it’s going to be changing any time soon. ———————————————- fyi: I’m about to go into “rant mode”, so if you only want to hear about …