Double Your Pleasure – A Guide to the Twelve-String Guitar
This lesson takes some of the myth and mystery out of playing a 12 string guitar. We even throw in an arrangement of a classic Allman Brothers song as a bonus.
This lesson takes some of the myth and mystery out of playing a 12 string guitar. We even throw in an arrangement of a classic Allman Brothers song as a bonus.
Thankfully, there are singers like Jane Blackstone. Her album, Natural Habitat NYC, is a tribute to the power of good songs and great arrangements. Style and substance meet and the result is breathtaking.
We’re going to use this song by Supertramp to work on the concept of chord shapes and different voicings. This is a great arrangement for the solo guitarist.
Scales are much more than a run of notes. Learning how they work is useful for all sorts of things, including writing your own guitar riffs.
Guitar Breakthrough, a guitar tuition software created by Len Collins, manages to do a great job of making things even simpler for the beginning guitarist. After installing the software, you are given an introduction and then a few choices, depending on what level of guitarist you are or what aspect of the Guitar Breakthrough lesson interest you most.
In today’s lesson, yet another (very) old chestnut from the early seventies, we’ll be seeing practical applications of the chord shapes learned there. For good measure, we’ll toss in a few (very) easy fills and then also look at how we’d play it in Drop D tuning.
We’re going to take some chord shapes that you know already and start working on moveable chords. These chords sound cool and we’ve thrown in several examples.
Bebop Improv Concepts – a book of Jazz instruction by Hans Fahling Those of you familiar with my columns know that I am always trying to learn more and more about the guitar, an instrument I’ve played for more than twenty-five years. So when Hans Fahling sent me a copy of his book Bebop Improv […]