Subject: Happy Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day
February 14th, 2018 at 8:37 am EDTHey Friend, Happy Valentine’s Day to y’all! Hallmark has done a great job reminding us that today, we should do something nice for our sweeties. I’m lucky enough to have three - my wife and two daughters, and candy is always a winner! I saw a ...
Practice the Minor Drop
February 11th, 2018 at 9:41 am EDTHey Friend, Hope your weekend is going well. On Friday, we talked about using a chromatic technique to create a downward stepping movement in chord progression. The technique is called a minor drop. Today, I put together a couple tabs for you de ...
How About a Chromatic Chord Progression?
February 9th, 2018 at 8:37 am EDTHey Friend, Last week, we talked about the chromatic scale - just one of the many useful patterns you can learn to incorporate into your playing. We looked at using a chromatic riff in a guitar solo to help “spice” it up a bit and give it movem ...
Watch a Joe Satriani Master Class
February 7th, 2018 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, GUITAR WORLD has done it again! They sat down with Joe Satriani to talk about learning how to express yourself on guitar and delivered it up on a silver platter for us. GW was kind enough to transcribe the entire video and include tabs, ...
Welcome to the Hotel Chromatica
February 4th, 2018 at 9:34 am EDTHey Friend, You like that? I’m a wordsmith, ha, ha. On Friday, we talked about using chromatic notes to make musical phrases more interesting. Today, I’ve got an example for you. The Exercises What I did was tabbed out the C major scale in th ...
More Than Just a Warm-up Exercise
February 2nd, 2018 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Happy Friday! Hope you had a good week. Remember the chromatic scale? That’s the one where you play each consecutive fret as you move up or down the notes - half-step intervals the whole way. This is like THE most basic pattern you ...
You Can’t Escape Them...
January 31st, 2018 at 8:37 am EDTHey Friend, Wow - January 31st! One 12th of the year - gone, already! I hope the rest of the year doesn’t fly by so fast. And yet I know, in eleven months I’m going to be looking back thinking the same thing. Here it is, though - we all know we ...
See What You Can Do With These In Your Chord Progressions
January 28th, 2018 at 9:44 am EDTHey Friend, Today, we’re looking at an example of using hammer-ons and pull-offs in chords. I mentioned on Wednesday that by switching up some open chords can easily be done by changing the three note of the chord. You can change the note to the ...
Recycle your Guitar Strings
January 26th, 2018 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, One of the maintenance tasks that all guitarists face is changing out your strings. The more you play your guitar, the more often you should change your strings. Why? Over usage and time, strings start to lose their tonal qualities. As ...
Use These to Spice Up Your Chord Progressions
January 24th, 2018 at 8:28 am EDTHey Friend, In the last email (Sunday), we talked about a couple simple techniques guitarists use on a regular basis - the hammer-on and pull-off. With these techniques, we can create simple patterns that sound cool and help speed up melodic riff ...