FULL COURSE, TAB, JAM TRACKS: truefire.at GUITAR LESSONS: bit.ly Welcome to Acoustic Guitar For Beginners with Rich Maloof! Time to dust off your guitar and start strumming. You won’t be bogged down in this course by tedious exercises or music theory. Instead, we get straight to the mechanics of chords and strums so that you can pick up a piece of sheet music (or find some online) and start playing songs that you know and love. As you click from lesson to lesson, check out the other elements in the video player. The Jam tracks, Text, and PDF’s all support the lessons taught on video. TrueFire on Twitter – www.twitter.com TrueFire on Facebook – www.truefire.com
FULL COURSE, TAB, JAM TRACKS: truefire.at More Free Guitar Lessons: bit.ly This tune’s third solo incorporates a slide into the major 7 played over the I chord, resolving to the 6 to add a jazzy feel, in addition to some tasty voice leading into the IV chord. Having some solid major-based melody licks gives you a much wider spectrum to impart different feels.
FULL COURSE, TAB, JAM TRACKS: truefire.at More free guitar lessons: bit.ly TF on Twitter: www.twitter.com TF on Facebook: www.truefire.com Welcome to 335 Improv! I get asked all of the time about how I approach improvisation. What scales and arpeggios do I use? Am I thinking street key or parent key? Do I have stock approaches to progressions? Do I use modes? While the answer is “no” to most of these questions, I have certainly studied and am very much aware of these principles, but my personal approach is quite different when I’m actually improvising. 335 Improv will answer many of these questions, and I’m excited about be able to share my own approach to improvisation. I’ve been blessed to work with, and learn from, so many accomplished musicians over the years. Now I get the chance to share many of these “tricks of the trade” with you. I’ve also been fortunate enough to work in all style of music and so, 335 Improv is not just a “jazz” improvisation course. The approaches that we’ll cover here will work over blues, rock, pop – virtually any style of music! I’ve organized 335 Improv into six sections, where each section covers a variety of topics and each uses a vamp or section from one of my tunes as the practice track that we’ll be working with to demonstrate a specific harmonic and rhythmic situation. We’ve included many tools for you to work with as you progress through the course. For starters, each individual video lesson is available with three views; a multi …
FULL COURSE, TAB, JAM TRACKS: truefire.at More Free Guitar Lessons: bit.ly On Twitter – www.twitter.com On Facebook – www.truefire.com The first piece we’ll study is “Down the Dirt Road Blues” by Charley Patton (Paramount, Richmond 1928). Charlie Patton, better known as Charley Patton was born in 1891 or 1894. He died on the Heathman-Dedham plantation near Indianola, Mississippi, from heart disease on April 28, 1934. Compare the guitar accompaniment to Patton’s “34 Blues,” which is slower but virtually the same. Just about every Charley Patton song has a really cool guitar part in it. “Down the Dirt Road Blues” is no exception – this little 2-bar turnaround riff is a great example of how much fun it can be to play the guitar this way. We’re capoed up one fret and we’re in the key of C. The turnaround should be played in an expressive style, snapping the bass strings (played with the thumb) against the fretboard.
FULL COURSE, TAB, JAM TRACKS: truefire.at More free guitar lessons – bit.ly On Twitter – www.twitter.com On Facebook – www.truefire.com There are lots of ways to strike the strings on your bass to get different sound. Pulling with your fingers, using a pick, and using your thump to slap the bass and pulling your fingers up from underneath the strings to pop them. The slap and pop techniques are a fun way to get that unique sound, so in this segment Ill show you the basic techniques needed to play in this style. When slapping, the idea is to hit the string from the top/side and with your thumb and then to get it away so that the strings can freely vibrate. When popping, youve got to learn to use your wrist to open up your hand, and by doing so have your fingers pop the strings to get that sounds. We end with a couple of exercises using octaves in an E minor pentatonic scale and introduce the bounce technique to get a double hit with your thumb.
FULL COURSE, TAB, JAM TRACKS: truefire.at More free guitar lessons – bit.ly On Twitter – www.twitter.com On Facebook – www.truefire.com Alrighty thennow that we know the basic blues chord progression and how to read and follow a basic chord chart let’s talk about different grooves, or styles of music. Its one of the wonderful things about music that the same thing can be played and interpreted in so many different ways, and convey totally different feelings. So lets start out playing example #2 with a straight 8ths groove. Straight 8ths means that we will be playing a steady stream of 8th notes with no syncopation. Well start just pumping out the root and then use the pentatonic scale to construct a bass line that will certainly sound familiar. Let your fingers do the walkin!
FULL COURSE, TAB, JAM TRACKS: bit.ly Bass Basics: bit.ly More guitar lessons: bit.ly Stu Hamm’s Fretboard Fitness digs deep into bass guitar fretboard navigation, finger agility and the theoretical knowledge necessary to play all styles of music. If you consider yourself an intermediate bass guitar player, Stu Hamm’s Fretboard Fitness is the bass boot camp you need to take your skills to the next level. Stu Hamm first came to prominence after playing on Steve Vai’s Flex-Able disc. Going on to become the bassist of choice to lay down the low-end for virtuoso guitarists like Frank Gambale, Joe Satriani and many others on the stage and in the studio. Fortunately for students of bass guitar, Stu’s teaching skills match his musicianship providing a rare opportunity to learn bass guitar from one of the very best on the planet. “These are the bass guitar lessons I wish I had when I was coming up. I’ve distilled the curriculum in Fretboard Fitness to the essential nuts and bolts of playing bass guitar; navigating the fretboard, building hand strength, and understanding the essential principles of music theory and harmony. All of the video bass guitar lessons, exercises and workouts that I’ve included in Fretboard Fitness are designed to form a strong bond between your hands, ears and mind.” The best quality of this course is how you work with it; you’ll play your way through Fretboard Fitness. No tedious, boring routines or theoretical math here. Stu designed each workout to …
FULL COURSE, TAB, JAM TRACKS: truefire.at More Free Guitar Lessons: bit.ly On Twitter – www.twitter.com On Facebook – www.truefire.com This is a popular shuffle rhythm that has been heard on countless recordings throughout the years. From BB King to Stevie Ray Vaughn, all the great blues guitarist have put their own stamp on this pattern. The bass plays quarter notes to lay down a strong groove with the drums, while the guitar doubles the bass playing shuffle using eighth notes. This rhythm will work at any speed and, by experimenting, you can change the feel by changing the tempo. Visit Stevie Ray Vaughn at www.sonymusic.com
