This video shows you four ways of using material we’ve looked at in lessons. In the top left corner you can follow the low part for Green Onions. In the top right corner you can follow the high part for Green Onions (notation below). In the bottom right, you can play all the way around…
Our material today is the major pentatonic scale. This is a very useful item of vocabulary that is used in many iconic songs, riffs, melodies. It offers us some great options for pieces of music, for improvisation, chord fills and for developing expressive skills on guitar.
If you have seen The Sound Of Music, you will…
This is a really lively, fun tune that we can play with the same three chords all the way through.
This song uses upstroke strumming instead of downstroke strumming. That’s what gives it the danceable feeling it has.
It can take more concentration doing the upstrokes. To practice this, it can help to stand up,…
What do we mean by sixteenth note rhythm?
We have done quite a bit of down up strumming using 8th notes, or a 1+2+3+4+ count. Using this type of strumming, there is a maximum of 8 possible places in the bar where you can strum – there are eight arm movements, four downstrokes and four upstrokes. With…
Now you understand the technique for strumming to produce a consistent pattern, we’ll see a quick and simple way to learn to read and write rhythm notation. Our rhythm skills include the practical side of training our body to synchronise with a beat and training our arms to move smoothly in the right time. They…
It’s a feature of the guitar that the neck forms a grid. There are lots of benefits to this that you’ll discover as you learn more – certain chord shapes and scales are moveable, meaning you only need to learn one pattern or shape, and you can move it around up and down the fretboard…
Now we’re going to begin training your right arm to co-ordinate with the beat.
Once you are secure with where the pulse is, your want to train your right arm to move down in time with the pulse. To begin with, you may want to hit the strings while muting them with your left hand.…
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