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One of the most frequent questions I get from readers and students is, “How do I learn to walk a bassline on the guitar?” Though there are many ways to accomplish this goal, one of the exercises that I found helped me, and that has helped my students over the years, is learning how toRead the Rest... ...
Read More(Scroll Down to View Video Lesson) As guitarists, we all know how difficult it can be to get enough chords under our fingers to play through our favorite tunes and not sound repetitive. While sitting down and learning inversions for all the different chord types can be helpful, it is also often boring andRead the Rest... ...
Read MoreThis is a guest post by Steve Nixon. He writes for the website www.freejazzlessons.com Photo Credit: Adrian Whelan What is a good jazz practice routine? One of the challenges that aspiring jazz musicians face when practicing is the sheer amount of potential material to choose from. There never is a shortage of things toRead the Rest... ...
Read More(Scroll down to view the video for this lesson) With the mountain of licks out there to choose from, many guitarists struggle to figure out which ones they need to have in their repertoire and which ones they can pass over, especially when time in the practice room is short. Though there are many great licks,Read the Rest... ...
Read MoreThis article is an installment in my Anatomy of a Tune series, where I take famous Standards and break them down from a specific standpoint such as improvisation, chord melody, comping, arranging or phrasing/rhythm. In this article, we will be breaking down “All the Things you Are” from the perspective of a chord melody arrangementRead the Rest... ...
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