13 July 2021
In the second week of the songwriting challenge, Dan focuses on using his theory knowledge to add some very tasty 7th notes into the basic chords from last time.
In the second week of the songwriting challenge, Dan focuses on using his theory knowledge to add some very tasty 7th notes into the basic chords from last time.
Welcome to the first lesson of our ambitious plan to write and record a full track over a series of four videos! The first thing to do is choose the chord progression as the core of the song.
Your Guitar Academy is now offering guitar lessons Shoreham. Our guitar tutor in that area, Jed, is an extremely motivated, dedicated and experienced tutor ready to help improve your guitar playing.
We've been listening to some lots of legendary classic rock solos and kept noticing a few similarities...
The Chord Is Irrelevant. It's How You Play It...
When should you use economy picking? Dan sets the team a weekly challenge lick to find out!
There's a certain ambiguity and guessing of notes on the Guitar neck that often holds us back as Guitarists. In this webinar; Dion will take you through the best way to memorise these notes, including concepts such as octave shapes and one extremely handy online tool. As a result; you'll feel much more comfortable and confident grabbing those chords and scales all over the neck with no guessing game.
You've probably heard the saying 'they have a great touch on the guitar', but what does that mean? In this webinar, Thomas will show you how to achieve 'the touch' through the use of vibrato and legato techniques to replicate the smooth flow of the oldest musical instrument in the world: the human voice.
The idea of "Jazzing up your Blues" is a subject often misunderstood by developing improvisers. A great way to try this is to take your old faithful pentatonic shapes and transform them into something much more unusual sounding, using carefully placed chromaticism. Dion will take you through some of these concepts in this webinar, including some licks in familiar shapes to really supercharge your pentatonic soloing.
