In this guitar lesson, Colin will teach you how to play harmonics on your guitar. If you don’t know what guitar harmonics sound like, then play the video, and you’ll find out. One song that I always think of regarding harmonics is Summer Song by Joe Satriani. He uses them a fair bit in the […]
Before I start to look at the Farida J-FT frank turner signature guitar, I’ll talk a little bit about Farida’s new ‘Artist designed’ series. The thinking behind this series was to work alongside some of the UK’s finest artists to make the most perfect guitars possible to suit your style of playing. This was achieved […]
Standard D tuning gives your guitar a deeper, growlier voice — and the best part is you don’t have to learn anything new. Every chord shape and scale pattern you already know still works. Everything just sounds a whole step lower. In this lesson we’ll walk through exactly how D standard works, how your chords […]
In this guitar lesson, we’re going to cover an embellishment riff that I like using in songs that have an Em to G major chord change. For More Riffs Like This One, Click Here This riff comes right out of the E pentatonic minor scale, which hopefully you’re familiar with by now. Why E pentatonic […]
Bar chords is one subject that stumps quite a few guitar players, mostly because initially they are harder to play than open chords. A bar chord (sometimes also spelled barre chord) is called that because you essentially create a ‘bar’ with your index finger, fretting all six strings at once. Then, you create the chord […]
Here’s the latest in a gradually growing series of guitar riffs and licks that I’ve been doing. Basically, this is a 12 bar blues progression I just jammed up for teaching purposes; maybe you can make something of it! The progression is simply I IV V using power chords. So that’s B5, E5, and F#5 […]
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