hi Friend, Happy Friday… Got a cool guitar treat for you today! It’s another Claudius Maximus “mini lesson”. This is interesting — I’ll show you an “Eric Johnson” style lick and the weird “hexatonic” scale that creates the unique sound. I never hear anyone talk about this, and I don’t know why, cause its really …
One thing I never heard people talking about is Hexatonic scales, Usually we either deal with pentatonics (5 notes), or diatonics (7 notes), but hexatonics fall right in the middle. You can think of it as either a diatonic minus 1 note, or a pentatonic with 1 extra note. This particular hextaonic scale that I’m …
hi Friend, We go live in about 2 hours, 8pm EST. So grab your guitar and get ready to soak in some blues playin’ goodness. Jon MacLennan will be responding live *on video* to your questions on the chat. Just login to: https://www.guitargodclub.com You’ll see a link to the webinar 15 minutes before we go …
Friend, First of all, I really appreciate the fact that y’all took the time to post about what teachers/styles you want to learn from next. I definitely I have my work cut out for me as far as reading the hundreds and hundreds of replies! Our next product release here at Guitar Control is called …
hi Friend, We’ve got a great guitarist lined up for you this week who will be teaching da blues. Here’s the details: Time: Thurs. January 17, AT 8 PM EST Topic: Introduction to the Blues and Blues Soloing Instructor: Jon MacLennan Just log into the guitar god club: https://www.guitargodclub.com and you’ll see a big fat …
I really need your advice! I need to line up some killer teachers and instruction for later this year! 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 a specific instructor or famous player you want …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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! …