All posts tagged "Featured"
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A Crash Course In Choosing Your First AmpSo you walk into a music store, spot a cool-looking amplifier, plug your axe in and bust out your favorite solo (which hopefully isn’t “Stairway to Heaven”, for the staff’s sake). Does it have that ear-rattling, teeth-chattering...
- Posted October 17, 2014
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Easy Guitar Lesson Video: Quick Lick, Speedy Melody!Check out this lick you can throw into your practice sessions to give your playing a little zest. It’s essentially an alternating hammer-on, hammer-off sequence that you can run through your fretboard to get amazing results. Not...
- Posted October 15, 2014
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Easy Guitar Lesson Video: 3 Note Per String Pentatonic Blitz!Here’s a cool lick/exercise which you can use to improve your playing skills AND build into a solo. It’s an Am pentatonic pattern making use of 3 notes per string and will elevate your technique to lightning fast levels....
- Posted October 9, 2014
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Easy Guitar Lesson Video: The Weird StringsSo what’s the deal with the B and E strings? Why are they tuned differently from the first four strings? In today’s video, I’ll explain to you how they fit into your guitar playing. Plus, embracing the...
- Posted October 6, 2014
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Easy Guitar Lesson Video: Play Guitar…Quirky?“Quirky” is the best way to describe Eddie Van Halen’s playing style – it’s what sets him apart from the other Guitar Gods. In the video below, I’ll share a little secret to sound like a pro...
- Posted October 3, 2014
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Easy Guitar Lesson Video: Get Mind-Blowing DistortionWant to get that killer crunch in your guitar sound? Here’s a little primer on cranking it up and harnessing the best possible distortion from your amp. This is just the first of many other videos on Gain...
- Posted October 3, 2014
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Easy Guitar Lesson Video: How To Learn the Pentatonic Box FASTERThis is a cool exercise called “Splitting The Box” – it’s funny how the most successful musicians never leave that 1st position pentatonics and do just fine. But if you want to increase your versatility and really understand the...
- Posted October 3, 2014
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From The Archives – Carlos Jamming!Here’s a little blast from the past for you, back in the Land of Shred. This video was taken in 2007 when I’d just restarted playing after a ten (maybe longer?) year break. And that’s not something...
- Posted October 3, 2014
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How To Play Guitar FastIf you’ve just started learning the nuances of shredding guitar, you might think that playing fast is some faraway goal. The truth is that it does take years to develop your technique, but it doesn’t mean you can’t...
- Posted October 1, 2014
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Easy Guitar Lesson Video: Killer Rig Rundown Revealed!What’s up, guitar geeks? You’re going to be seeing and hearing a lot more of me in my upcoming videos, so I’ll get this out of the way before we get into even cooler stuff later on....
- Posted September 30, 2014
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