frying fish and tasty licks

Hi Friend, I’ve got a lot of fish frying in a lot of pans. Meaning, I’ve got a lot of good guitar goodies I’m cooking up for you as usual. But since I don’t have any big dishes to serve today, I thought I’d give you just a little somethin somethin just to tide you …

Dweezil Zappa just emailed us and said…

Hi Friend, Wow… believe it or not, an email just came in from none other than Dweezil Zappa… regarding Derryl Gablel’s fusion guitar secrets instructional DVDs. (For those not familiar, he is the son of the late, great Frank Zappa, and an incredible guitarist in his own right) And he writes: *** “Hi Derryl, I …

Another chop building exercise

Hi Friend, Here’s another neat little guitar exercise you can to improve your chops. It’s an 8-note repeating pattern using alternate picking. Kind of like the one I sent in the last email, but different. It’s cool becaues its a good one to alternate between an “up , down and back” lick and a straight …

Picking Power!

In our last blog post, we looked at a cool picking exercise that really works our pinky. Now let’s look at another 8-note repeating pattern that uses alternate picking. Here’s the lick: In this one, the left had is not as difficult, but the picking is much more challenging. Again, I’m going to demonstrate this …

Pinky Power!

Hey there my friend… Pull up a chair, let’s talk guitar chops 🙂 There’s SOOO many ways we can work on our chops. One obvious area of chops is our picking… Another obvious area is our left hand fretting. I want to focus on that today, and specifically on the pinky because its often the …

Pinky Power!

Hi Friend, There’s SOOO many ways to improve your guitar chops. Let’s talk about one of them: Your pinky. Today I’ve got a lesson for you I just uploaded to my blog that will help you get some: PINKY POWER 🙂 Check it out: https://www.claudejohnson.com/blog I myself have been focusing on a lot of physical …

Choose Your Bribe

Hi Friend, If you do the same old thing, you’re going to get the same old results. It’s time to “shock” your guitar playing to the next level. How? By doing Derryl Gabel’s amazing chop builders. Derryl reveals hours of proprietary guitar secrets that you won’t see anywhere else on his DVDs. I strongly suggest …

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