Stevie Ray Vaughan was born on October 3, 1954 in Dallas Texas and is one of the most well known blues guitarist of all time. His inspiration and first major influence as a blues guitarist was his older brother Jimmie Lee Vaughan. As a Christmas present in 1963 Stevie received a toy guitar that was …
Would you like to disapear , then reappear with any essense you choose? Yes, you can reinvent yourself anytime you want, especially on the guitar. Check out today’s sample clip from “Rock Riffs Made Simple”. It’s a song called invisible and there’s a cool lesson at the end about playing tight and clean.
hi Friend, I just finished a monster breakfast and now I’m sipping on a glass of O.J while uploading a new blog video. It’s a great video lesson for you that really shows a critical lesson which is how to create a “clean rocking sound” vs. a “sloppy chunk of sound”. It’s a very simple …
hi Friend, Hope you’re having a nice weekend and a groovy summer. I’m about to head over to my parents’ house for lunch and I’m hustling here to get out this email to you! I just posted a new mini lesson on my blog. Basically, I’m talking about rhythms for melodies – the actual rhythmic …
There are 2 aspects to creating interesting lead lines and melodies. One is the actual notes… You can play around with various scales, seqeuences, arpeggios, intervals, motiffs, and patterns. The other, equally important aspect is the rhythms of the melodies. You can drastically alter a simple sequence of notes by changing around the rhythm of …
Hi Friend, TGIF! So let me ask you a guitar question: What if you could play rocking songs and 6 string powerchords with 1 finger? YES: INSANELY FULL POWERCHORDS WITH JUST 1 FINGER! There is a way… Very few guitarists know how. Virtuwul is a master at it. Watch him do it in this video: …
You can get the details of this secret inside the course:https://www.rockriffsmadesimple.com/main.php
Friend, I just came up with a cool guitar lick that I want to share with you. I was messing around with some pentatonic sequences and came up with a new musical idea! After figuring out what I was doing, I decided to call it “skipped sequences”. To find out what I’m talking about, and …
Scale sequences are melodic ideas that you repeat on each note of a scale. I’ve talked about these before… One very common one is called “1-2-3-4”, just going straight up (or straight down) a scale , 4 notes at a time, then starting on the next note. It works particularly well descending down the pentatonic …
Here’s another killer track from the Dril album that Virtuwul will include as part of Rock Riffs Made Simple. This one is called “Download”. There’s a lot of cool, unusual rock sounds and techniques that Virtuwul is ready to teach you. Press Play: [audio:https://www.rockriffsmadesimple.com/blog/audio/download.mp3] Or Click Here to Download the MP3 Get the course that …