Chuck Berry is most famous for his double string solos – giving him a much fatter tone and more of a rhythmic quality. This lesson is full of Chuck Berry style double string solo licks which I hope you will learn and incorporate them into your own playing. Also, a great video to watch is called “Hail Hail Rock N Roll” which has Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Robert Cray, and Chuck playing Chuck Berry songs – a must watch for guitar players! … [Read more...]
Electric Blues Lead Guitar Lesson in C – Clapton, Gary Moore, Stevie Ray Vaughan influence – EP056
I wasn’t 100% sure what to title this lesson when I recorded it, but after I listened to the final recording I realized that there are 3 primary influences in this. Clapton, Gary Moore, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. I’m nowhere near any of those guys, but they certainly have influenced my playing through the years. You should always try to pick up things from other players and incorporate it into your own playing. My guitar tone in this lesson is a very heavy overdriven sound – something that … [Read more...]
Peter Green Guitar Lesson – EP044
In this guitar lesson, I'll show you how to play a Peter Green inspired rock blues in the key of A. This is really intended for electric guitar (but feel free to jump in if you've only got an acoustic). I'm using a Fulltone OCD pedal for overdrive on this one. … [Read more...]
Blues Rhythm and Lead Guitar Lesson – EP040
I’m always trying to find more interesting ways to play both rhythm and lead when playing the blues and it seems that there are endless combinations of styles for either. This lesson is split into 2 parts, the first part shows you how to play the funk rhythm part. Also included are 3 versions of the jam track in different keys, so that you can practice playing that rhythm in various keys. The second part breaks down the Eric Clapton / Buddy Guy inspired lead which has a lot of dramatic bends. … [Read more...]
EP036 – Drop D tuning rhythm and 3 solos in the key of D
In this guitar lesson you'll learn how to play a blues, rock rhythm (with a hint of country) in drop d tuning. In addition, I've included 3 mini double-string solos in the key of D that has repeatable licks in both major and minor pentatonic scales. You can practice interchanging these licks / solos with the jam track, and ultimately transpose them into other keys to play with other songs. … [Read more...]
Rock Blues in the Key of A- Learn to Play Rhythm and Lead – EP018
This is a new 4 part mini series that will show you how to play a driving blues lead guitar and up-tempo rhythm guitar. This lead lesson was influenced by several different artists, namely Eric Clapton, Dickey Betts, and B.B. King... with some various country pedal steel licks thrown in for good measure. Hopefully there are enough out there that share my love of this style of playing to make lessons like this worth while. I will be releasing the 4 videos for this mini-series over the next few … [Read more...]
Keith Richards Style Rhythm Guitar Lesson – LEG016
In this guitar lesson I'm continuing showing different rhythm guitar parts and in this lesson I demonstrate how to play a Keith Richards style rhythm. Keith is about the best rhythm guitar player out there and his contributions to Rolling Stone songs are what define them (well Mick Jagger's voice too of course). Keith is a nice mixture of Muddy Waters style Chicago blues, mixed with some Carl Perkins rockabilly, with a little country pedal-steel sounding twang. Even though he's technically the … [Read more...]
Blues / Rock Rhythm Guitar Lesson (Key of A) – LEG018
In this lesson I show you how to play a standard driving blues/ rock rhythm on an electric guitar (I'm going to focus on interesting guitar rhythms for the next few lessons). I played this with an electric guitar with overdrive, however, that isn't required to play a rhythm like this - you could use clean channel on electric or even acoustic and still be able to play this rhythm. The key to getting the fat "chunky" sound is to use palm muting with your right hand (which I'll demonstrate in the … [Read more...]
Simple Blues Guitar Lick – 1 (Chuck Berry Style) – LEG025
<>I've decided to switch direction on occasion with these blues guitar lick videos and try to offer content for the beginner, intermediate, and advanced guitar players. This video demonstrates a simple blues guitar solo that even a beginner should be able to play, on either an electric or an acoustic guitar. Most of it is played using the double string technique (where you are playing 2 strings at the same time), and because of playing on double strings it ends up sounding a lot like … [Read more...]
Mark Knopfler Style Guitar Lesson – Lead Guitar – LEG026
I remember as a kid seeing the Money For Nothing video on MTV, that's the one that had the super high-tech CGI animations which were state-of-the-art at the time. The guitar riff at the beginning of that song totally blew me away and I believe was my first foray into playing proper air guitar. To this day day if I hear that intro in the car I'll turn it up as loud as it will go, I highly recommend trying that sometime if you haven't already. Money For Nothing was my introduction to Mark Knopfler … [Read more...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- Next Page »
