Taking techniques from different instruments and applying them to the guitar can open up a whole new approach to the instrument and add freshness to your playing and ideas. In this lesson, we will look at approaching the guitar in the style of a sitar and Indian mandolin. A sitar has many strings (up to 20, to be exact). Ironically, out of all of these strings, most of the time only one of them is used to do the actual playing.
Here's the first installment of Chopin's Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus No. 2. I've arranged it for guitar, and as you can see, it's not for the meek. But if you've been diligently practicing the chromatic exercises from my past few lessons, you should be ready to tackle it.
Here's an exclusive video lesson by guitarist Bill Hudson of Circle To Circle. In the video, Hudson shows you how to play "Seasons Will Fall," the title track from Circle To Circle's new album.
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Today we bring you a lesson video by guitarist Michael "Padge" Paget of Welsh rockers Bullet for My Valentine, who shows you how to play "Breaking Point," a song off the band's new album, Temper Temper. The album will be released Tuesday, February 12, on RCA Records. It's the band's fourth studio album.
As people who study jazz guitar know, learning how to play various chord substitutions is an important part of understanding and applying the jazz language to your comping and soloing ideas. In order to learn how to bring some common subs into your playing this week, in today’s lesson we’ll be exploring five important and often-used ii V I chord subs that come from various famous tunes, and the playing of many great jazz guitarists over the years.
Superimposing common arpeggios can add a new and exciting sound to your solos, helping you to utilize patterns and shapes you already know. When we "superimpose," we take one sound and layer it on top of another. In other words, when playing over a particular chord, you "think" a different chord in your improvisation. All it takes is modifying your approach over the chord you're playing over.
Guitar World pays tribute to Randy Rhoads, Ozzy Osbourne’s colossal sideman, with this classic transcript of a guitar clinic he conducted shortly before his death.