Music Instruments, Gears & Audio Equipment

Modes: Tonal Note Focus

By July 01, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Guitar players can apply scales/modes much more effectively if the modes' pitches are focused directly from off of their appropriate "tonal note."This way, guitar players can create a strong tie-in to the shape of the scale/mode directed toward any other associated patterns possible for use along with the mode.Associated patterns...

How To Play And Use A II-V-I Progression Properly

By June 30, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

The basic chord progression in modal music is the famous ii-V-I progression. This turnaround is common in jazz music but also in other popular music styles that are based on modal theory. It determines the tone of the key in the song and if it's major or minor. It doesn't...

Tips To Help You Master Barre Chords

By June 29, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Hello and welcome to this lesson which I've purposely written for beginners.This time I'm going to address a topic that is relevant for each guitarist out there who wishes to play along to his favourite songs and even write his own music. The topic at hand is barre chords and...

Three Octave Modes [Lessons]

By June 29, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Hello everybody! Here is a great lesson to use to play scales diagonally as opposed to playing vertically all the time.Be sure you review my past lesson on 3 Notes per String as this will help you very much through this. Hope you enjoy!Before viewing this lesson, be sure to...

Learn 'Mother' Guitar Solo Lesson With Chris Zoupa

By June 29, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

Level: Beginner/IntermediateTuning: E A D G B E (Standard)Who didn't love crusin' around in GTA San Andreas listening to this song and whomping people with baseball bats and ramming pedestrians with a motor bike? Lots of good times. I always loved this song and had an epiphany recently... "Learn that...

Learn Blues Soloing Strategies

By June 26, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

I'm no guitar hero but I'm very into improvising and soloing with my guitar. I have some advices for soloing strategies. Actually they are basic but I think they work out really good. Here's my two cents. Be a player who always has the ear and attention of the public....

Learn Intermediate Guitar Arpeggios

By June 24, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

This weeks lesson takes a look into the world of arpeggios on the fingerboard, (an area often neglected by guitar players).Arpeggio patterns on the guitar neck may be neglected due to the fact that the arpeggio shapes can be somewhat more difficult to easily fret-out on the guitar neck (the...

G-D-C-D: Living Off Of The Beaten Path

By June 18, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Guitars Guitar Lessons

G-D-C-D, is the base for a large variety of songs people enjoy playing. You may encounter scenarios where you don't know the song you are about to jam with someone but, after studying this section, you will begin to see that not only can you play along without knowing the...

Learn Minor Pentatonic Position Method

By June 18, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

This weeks lesson takes a look at performing substitutions with diatonic pentatonic scale ideas. This is an easy idea to work on that can produce a fresh new sound into any solo or melody line.How This WorksFor example, if we performed an, A minor, chord (as a looped jam-track), and...

How To Avoid Getting Rusty When You Can't Play Guitar [Lessons]

By June 17, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

If I'm being honest with myself, I'd say that I've gone through several long periods where guitar was a secondary - even tertiary - part of my life.Sure, ever since I started playing at 13, I've always proudly identified myself as a guitarist, but in reality, my involvement with guitar...

C# Minor Pentatonic Tap Lick With Chris Zoupa

By June 15, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

I was messing around with a pentatonic and started messing around with some taps. I found that if I tapped 4 frets up from the most common box shape of the minor pentatonic that all the notes were in key. But some of the tapped notes weren't just out of...

Learn Rock Guitar Soloing

By June 10, 2015 | Category_Videos>Guitars Guitar Lessons

This time I will cover a few of the basic ideas involved with entering into the world of playing rock lead guitar and how to solo over rock music in general. It presupposes that viewers have already tried doing some soloing within the style of blues.Rock songs will almost always...