This is a fun and challenging exercises. Great for several reasons: Coordination. You must be exact with how you put your fingers on the frets, or it will sound awful. Strength. You will develop better finger strength from this exercise. Flexibility. You will have to stretch your fingers a bit to reach, and that is […]
Easy, fun blues – be the one-man-band today! This is a fun, playing on the porch type of thing that is a blast to play. It makes you sound like you know what you are doing! HEHE!
I guess the secret is now out. Well, it’s kind of a challenge to play it smoothly, but that’s okay. It should give you something to work on. It is a very good idea to work on small and somewhat difficult pieces of music on a regular basis. It short enough that it’s not overwhelming. […]
Hendrix was a master a embellishing chords. The tune Axis Bold As Love is one of his finest. I’ve got the Soundslice version of how I play it available for you. In fact, I have provided 2 versions for you – 90 and 110 BPM. You will also find a backing track in the Soundslice […]
The Live Chat on September 30th – some weird YouTube hickup… but I eventually got going. This chat covered quite a bit about how sus chords relate to triads, very useful knowledge you should know. I also talked about chord construction and scales a bit.
Did you know that Christan rock bands have a favourite chord? It’s of course – Gsus. 🙂 So, today I have a very similar video to the sus4 video, but this time it’s about sus2 chords. Do you see any resemblance between the chords shapes in the last video and the chord shapes in this […]
Sus4, what’s that? Well, you’ll find out here! In this lesson, I’m explaining how this works, and I’m providing you with a PDF with neck diagrams.
The 15 Swinging Blues Licks course is now up. Let’s get straight to it!
If you missed the Live Chat on August 17, here it is – https://www.masterguitaracademy.com/live-session/ I also did 2 free ones on YouTube, and you have to check them out as well. I used those two fine-tune my streaming video software, and it’s now much better. The next live session on September will be the best one […]
This one is fun to play, and also challenging. However, it’s something I recommend you work on over time. Why? Because it’s a very useful technique, and you’ll hear SRV (for example) use this technique. What I am talking about is the technique of strumming with the pick hand, but single notes come out of […]