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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll be 1) creating an interesting lead melody, visualizing upcoming chords to play the notes within the chords, 3) learning an awesome alternate picking exercise to help with speed
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Slow Walkthrough - Lead
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Slow Walkthrough - Rhythm
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That sounds like fun and I can’t wait to learn it. Thanks Brian
Congratulations Andre! Brian that was such a super cool thing for you to do! I’m sure you created so much excitement within all of the site members anticipating whether they would be getting the guitar and also being happy for the lucky person who actually gets the guitar. Brian, it’s a pleasure to witness your giving back to the people that love and look to you for guidance in learning to play the guitar. God bless you Brian. I’ve known I was in the right place from the time I paid $5 to join your site years ago. Be safe and be well
Congrats Andre! Better love that guitar
What are you talking about? Who is Andre?
Never I d, Guess I should of watched the video…I didn’t realize there was a giveaway
Congrats Andre 😊
Hi Brian,
Another great lesson concept which will help many thank you.
Congratulations to Andre on winning the superb Stratocaster. Perhaps in due course we shall get to hear it in action.
What a happy ending for you Brian that you were able to benefit from your generosity and see the way forward.
I think its a first bit of the ‘good karma’ thing for you, thoroughly deserved, and it will lead to generosity being repaid,
JohnStrat
Looking forward to this – reminds me of a horn line in a Louis Armstrong kind of way. Also appreciate the rhythm instruction.
Bellissimo ritmo e solo jazz style. Congratulazioni Maestro.
Bellissimo ritmo e solo jazz style. Spiegazione eccellente. Congratulazioni Maestro.
Congratulations to you André, and a great thank to you again, Brian !
Great idea the blue dots online with the video, I’m a little lazy to go see the score when the fingers don’t say everything 🙂 … I hope it doesn’t take you too much time !
Prend soin de toi, Brian,
Alain (and thank you for allowing me to improve my english, i’m trying to really understand everything you say)
Congrats on the guitar Andre! That was such a cool thing to do paying it forward with the guitar Brian and this a great new lesson as well with the gypsy jazz theme!
Great lesson – as usual! Really appreciated to Maj7 explanation in the second part.
Very ‘Chet Atkins’ like……………..wouold quite easily fit on neck and neck with Marc Knopfler. Hope I can get my fingers going fast enough for this one!!
Great lesson, thanks Brian.
Congratulations Andre,
This was a wonderful lesson Brian. Those colored dots help me see what you visualize various in various chords.
Thanks
Ray P
another great lesson brian! Keep em coming. Keep those guitars coming as well…..lol!
I really like this. I am struggling with figuring out what to do w licks, this lesson will help me with that. By hank you. Nice lesson. Melanie
Andre, Congratulations on winning that guitar. Enjoy playing it. This is something you can enjoy for the rest of your life. Very happy for you.
Another great lesson full of useful visual details. Cant wait to get started.
Thanks ! I needed this……
Great for Andre …now there is a gap in your guitar rack it probably doesn’t look right so guess you will have to find another guitar ..excellent lesson tks
Thanks for this one Brian. I have done some of these lines just noodling around mixing major and minor but connecting them to chord shapes should be a big help! The dots are a great visual.
Mike
Another great lesson. Missed out on entering your first giveaway. No power or internet on the Texas Gulf Coast for four days. Looking forward to another giveaway. Congrats to the winner.
Brian, Your generosity has made someone very happy. This is a fun and a great lesson for me. makes me learn how to work in deminished & and augmented chords and a change of pace.
Thanks so much for your generosity to others and being such a great teacher and encourager. Dave
Django’s fan, I love this music and so particular sound of my gypsy guitar (maybe my best guitar, luthier Castelluccia from Paris)… but it’s REALLY difficult so this lesson is welcome ! Thank’s !
Brian – I am still working at forcing myself to play the chords rather than licks from the scales. This lesson is really good at reiterating the chord triads and the caged shapes (which I am gradually starting to see). For years I was always playing “canned” licks that fit into minor, major pentatonic, blues scales, etc. Sounds good, but does not lead to any creativity toward playing melodic leads. This is a great lesson for finding how your fingers can “sing” the melody. As always, I really appreciate what you do in producing this weekly content for your members – and you do a great job! Got to keep practicing and working on improving rather than just jamming (have to do some jamming though for fun). Also, congrats to Andre on winning the Jeff Beck Strat. Hope you love it and enjoy it. Peace – Bob
Great lesson Brian Thanks
Love this lesson.
Nice lesson on the use of chord tones.
good stuff brian. For what its worth, i loved your last background. It was cozy and had great colors and wasn’t distracting in anyway and was a great step up from black. This background is weird for me, plain with all that space in the back. just thought id say that, either way it doesnt bother me, just my 2c
I really enjoyed the first minute of EP400 where you jam on the new guitar. I could see how much fun you were having. You got a few old standbys in there – a shuffle, a Clapton lick, harmonized 6ths. Most of the time that’s all we want to do. Pick up the guitar and have fun and sound pretty good at the same time. I’m going to watch that first minute a few more times to see what other techniques you crammed into it.
Like you I cannot get away from Clawhammer Banjo. My wife loves the sound over guitar actually but I love them both, perhaps guitar the most. If you haven’t tried Bart Reiter Banjos, please do. Bart is a builder out of Lansing, Michigan. The Regent and Special Models have the rolled brass and/or White Laydie tone rings and are simply out of this world. Take care.
Thanks for another great lesson. I’m enjoying learning the visualization. Also plenty of info and great pacing rather than rushing through as fast as possible.
Hi Brian, this is great, thanks. I have a question. In the rhythm tabs it says you start with an A7, but it sure seems like you’re playing regular A major in bars 1 & 5. In the second go-round you are playing A7 in bars 17 and 21. Am I incorrect? I like it better with that A major to start…
Really struggled with this one perhaps the hand is just not used to playing that major scale . Got it in the end you really do a great job of explaining how to use patterns and scales to improvise breaks and melodies. I like this new one to one informal like style of teaching . Fab we got a Rhythm track to and like the new graphics . Would like to suggest a lesson idea ……. Augmented (7th chord of the scale ) Thanks for your efforts .
Great lesson as usual! I love the melody and the gipsy jazz style.
I LOVE this piece, but WHY is the metronome playing through the whole thing! I like to record these when I finally get them down and memorized, but that metronome ruins the whole thing!
I love the site. Awesome stuff. Your camera goes in and out of focus a lot now though with what appears to be a new look