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Friend, my Guitar Ally… Whaddup. It’s Claude “Guitar Man” Johnson back at you for another episode of cool arpeggio ideas. Go check out my blog for something I’ve got cooked up for you today. https://www.claudejohnson.com/blog/ It’s a lesson in D major that you won’t want to miss. And don’t forget to post your comment on …
 Ok here’s a cool idea I had playing around with arpeggios. First, take a CMaj7 arpeggio. You can play it like this: Now, I first learned this kind of pattern from Derryl Gabel (www.fusionguitarsecrets.com/main.php) But I discovered a few cool things on my own about it recently. One cool thing is that the top …
Friend, I hope you had a cool weekend, and since August is here (which means summer is almost done)… I hope you’re making these weekends count! If there’s nothing spectacular going on in your neck of the woods, then you can get some spectacular guitar practice in. And speaking of the guitar, I have a …
I’m up early today… Gotta go over to my dad’s house to help him withthis new barbecue grill he’s getting. You see, with his new artificialknee only 8 weeks old, he can’t lift anything heavy. So I’m helping out. But before I go, I thought I’d write you a quick email this morning. Some guitar-related …
Hi Friend, I’ve been asked: “Claude, what’s the best way practice guitar ?” The answer, depends on “where you at”. In other words, where are you at with you development. The same thing that the advanced dude is working on, is not going to be the most appropriate or productive thing to do for the …
hi Friend, No, I won’t be making a guest appearance at your local Starbucks coffee shop. However, very soon, I do plan to connect with you in ways that I haven’t been doing so far. First thing is, I just ordered my new video camera… I use to have one and I ended up it …
Picking on a single string is the simplest way to get started. All the great shredders recommend this… From Paul Gilbert to Silvio Gazquez. So I started going back to basics, picking on a single string. A metronome is good to guage speed.  But there are other ways to actually increase the speed of the …
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Whats up Friend? I don’t know if you’ve been checking the news lately, but sometimes I say to myself “Claude, the world has gone insane.” But you know that already 🙂 Heck, anyone with an internet connection can check the news on any given day, and see the insanity. So in the midst of chaos, …