Filling The Role Of Rhythm And Lead Guitar Player
I had an awesome question come in recently from a member of Rock Guitar Power and I liked it show much… I made video and created a guitar lesson to answer the question! The question came in from Sandy and she wanted to know the best way to get started if you are filling the role of both the rhythm guitar player and the lead guitar player in a band. It’s a great question and a great skill to develop… So here is the video to teach you how to get started: Filling The Role Of Rhythm And Lead Guitar…
Video Response For Question On Learning Guitar Solos
Hey Everyone, So I got an email recently from Sandy, a member of the Rock Guitar Power community. She asked an awesome question that I get asked A LOT and the question is: “Why does it feel like you go over a lick or part of a solo. Start slow , work on it over and over again. It seems like you put in a long time just for that on part, let alone the entire song and still cant nail it.” So to answer her and give her some tips, I made a short video! Check it out below…
Finding Inspiration In Other Walks Of life
In this article we talk about how to find Inspiration for your music and guitar playing endeavors from other aspects of your life. Enjoy! Often you can find habits and skills from other walks of life that will help you in your pursuit of musicianship. Some little known trivia about me is that as I was practicing to become a musician I was also an athelete. I wrestled, played tennis, studied Washin Ru, was a body builder, and even can boast that I have a varsity letter in bowling. Along the way I had several serious back injuries that contributed…
Mixing It Up
It is common to see great progress when you are learning a new skill in the beginning and later see your returns on effort diminish at some point. It happens in all walks of life such as athletics, academics and people just being “stuck in a rut” in their careers. Mixing things up a bit and trying a different approach can be a remedy for this problem. A few examples of this are when a bodybuilder gets stuck at building a muscle group and isn’t seeing much growth they will introduce new exercises to shock their muscles back into growth….
The Importance Of Daily Practice
The following article was written by Bob Prong. He brings up an awesome point in this so check it out and implement! I recently re-learned a valuable lesson about practice that I have been telling my students about for years but not putting in to use myself. That is the importance of DAILY organized rehearsal of something you are working on. I had lost track of the importance of daily practice in my own growth as a musician. There’s not much that I haven’t seen technically or musically so I’m used to learning new music with ease. This had led…
Paper Crumbling To Build Strength As A Guitar Player
Train Your Guitar-Playing Muscles To Work For You As you may have already figured out, playing the guitar requires synchronous movement/coordination between you finger, palm, wrist, forearm and shoulder muscles. My beginning students have described finger/wrist muscle movements as being unnatural or awkward when they are trying to make chords or notes. I assure you that motions that may seem awkward at first can become almost natural if rehearsed enough. So lets learn an exercise that demonstrates your ability to build muscle coordination today. It will seem pretty awkward when you first start it but as you go the movements…
Playing Guitar With Your Eyes Closed – A Lesson On Playing Emotionally
One of the aspects of guitar playing that you should always strive for is playing with emotion. Whether it’s your own music or someone else’s. To illustrate this idea and give you some great tips on how to get started, I made a lesson where I play some really intense guitar for you….With My Eyes Closed! Check out the following video where I play the intro to “Asturias” by Isaac Albeniz Now please understand this is not to show off or wax my ego…I find that when you are able to play guitar without looking at it, you can reach…
Teaching Others To Play Guitar Make You A Better Player
One of the best ways that I have found to give thanks for something, especially a skill or talent, is to teach it to someone else. While there are many benefits in doing this, some very specific ones come to mind and they are: It makes you better at whatever your doing, It gives someone else the opportunity to learn what you know, and its a great way to show that you aren’t selfish and want to help others. So with this idea in mind, let me give you some in depth reasons why teaching other people guitar makes you…
The Importance Of Warming Up On Guitar
I chose to write about this topic because in the past I have sustained a pretty nasty injury. The actual injury was a result of a combination of things but it has given me a very good reason to remember the importance of warming up before playing and practicing because, due to my injury, I have not been able to play my guitar for over a month! Not cool to say the least. I’ll first give you a quick recap on what happened and then I talk about some exercises and warm up routines that you can do to prevent…
Outside Jam Session and Lesson
In this video I am going show you 3 really awesome rhythms that I am working on writing that are awesome to jam to. I’ve included the Jam Tracks below so be sure to check them out and use them to practice your leads and soloing! Jam Tracks! These tracks are in the key of B minor and the tempo is set at 110 Bpm: Jam Track #1: http://rgpvideos.s3.amazonaws.com/Extras/Jamtrack1.mp3 Jam Track #2 http://rgpvideos.s3.amazonaws.com/Extras/Jamtrack2.mp3 Jam Track #3 http://rgpvideos.s3.amazonaws.com/Extras/Jamtrack3.mp3