Happy New Year to you all! I trust you all had a good holiday season. I thought I'd kick off 2020 with a look at what is probably the ultimate surf guitar track. This video has been in the works fo...
2020-01-03 12:07:17 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the backing track to accompany this week's video. It's just a one chord loop E7. Use it to practice the lick; you could also try improvising some rhythm or lead ideas of your own - E minor p...
2019-12-20 12:23:51 +0000 UTC View PostHello all. For the final video of 2019, I have a Nice Lick for you. This time it's not one of mine, it's a Cornell Dupree lick taken from the King Curtis track Memphis Soul Stew. The lick uses some...
2019-12-20 12:19:09 +0000 UTC View PostHello patrons!
Hope you're all doing well. I thought I'd bring you the Christmas video this week, just to give you a bit of time to practice what is a quite tricky chord melody arrangem...
2019-12-13 13:09:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello patrons!
Following on from the Anarchy in the UK video I did a few weeks ago, here's my take on a less well-known Pistols song. From a guitar point of view this is a really interesting ...
2019-12-06 12:37:39 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the backing for this week's lesson. Enjoy playing along. The structure is exactly as on the original recording. (Incidentally, the acoustic rhythm parts were really hard to record - very fas...
2019-11-29 12:42:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello patrons! As promised, this week I have some surf for you. This is a true classic of the genre from Australian band The Atlantics. There's a full tutorial, and I also discuss surf gear and ton...
2019-11-29 12:33:49 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the track I'm playing over in this week's video. I've looped it a couple of times to make it longer. Use it to practice the piece, to explore 6th ideas of your own, or feel free to do any bl...
2019-11-22 13:19:23 +0000 UTC View PostHello all. This week's video is all about soloing using sixths derived from the mixolydian mode. No idea what that last sentence meant? I hope this video will make things clear. This is a great, ea...
2019-11-22 12:34:35 +0000 UTC View PostMorning all! In this week's video I'm talking about how to get started playing with other people. The subject of this video was actually suggested by one of you patrons a little while back (I love ...
2019-11-15 12:06:15 +0000 UTC View PostThis version skips the steel guitar solo and is what I play at the start of the video.
2019-11-08 13:20:06 +0000 UTC View PostThis version of the backing track is just like the recording and includes the steel guitar solo section.
2019-11-08 13:18:33 +0000 UTC View PostAfternoon patrons!
This week I have a great country guitar instrumental for you. It's full of nice licks and country guitar vocabulary. Even if country isn't your thing, I think there's plent...
2019-11-08 13:15:48 +0000 UTC View PostMorning all! I have some classic UK punk for you this week in the shape of Fan Club by The Damned. I know a few of you have requested I take a look at a Damned song, and this one was a lot of fun f...
2019-11-01 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the backing track I've put together for this week's lesson. The arrangement is exactly like the studio recording, not as I play it at the start of the video which is a slightly condensed ver...
2019-10-25 12:58:56 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
This week I thought I'd use Halloween as an excuse to look at some more great guitar work from John McGeoch. Here's the link to the video:
I've put together a backing track to this week's lesson. There are six 12 bar choruses, so you'll be able to play the entire piece 3 times. You can of course just jam along and improvise your own i...
2019-10-18 13:37:33 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings all! I've gone all tasteful this week with video that looks at the minor blues. In particular the focus of this lesson is on how to combine rhythm and lead guitar in the same piece. This ...
2019-10-18 13:29:51 +0000 UTC View PostMorning patrons. I have a Nice Lick for you today. As usual, I think understanding the concept behind the lick is just as important as learning the lick itself. This one is all about using arpeggio...
2019-10-11 11:01:28 +0000 UTC View PostHello all! This week I'm in acoustic mode and will be taking a look at Vestapol. Is it a tuning, a place, a piece of music? I attempt to get to the bottom of things in the new video:
Here's t...
2019-10-04 11:01:47 +0000 UTC View PostAfternoon all,
As promised, I have some classic punk for you this week. We have some easy power chord riffs, and some surprisingly sophisticated soloing. Link to the vid below. And I even man...
2019-09-27 14:19:19 +0000 UTC View PostAfternoon everyone! This week it's Nice Lick number 9. It is in fact a complete jazz blues solo based on one simple phrase. In the video I also get into a bit of theory about playing over jazz blue...
2019-09-20 15:16:31 +0000 UTC View PostHello all. This week's video is about using scales in a musical way. The lesson was prompted by an excellent request from one of you lovely patrons that I do something on this subject. (Do keep the...
2019-09-13 16:13:39 +0000 UTC View PostMorning patrons! In this week's video I'm taking a look at one of my favourite R.E.M. songs. It contains some great and inventive riffs. In particular, this song provides a great way to work on pic...
2019-09-06 10:41:24 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the backing track I put together for this week's lesson, complete with xylophone and gong sounds. It follows the arrangement of the original recording, so check that out if you're not sure w...
2019-08-30 17:45:35 +0000 UTC View PostHi patrons! This week I'm looking at a track which according to a quote I saw on Wikipedia is "arguably the most important of the early post-punk hits". There are lots of inventive and catchy rhyth...
2019-08-30 17:41:27 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
I'm currently on my way back to London after a very nice break in France.
In this week's video - which I filmed a couple of weeks ago - I'm looking at a Talking Heads c...
2019-08-23 08:04:03 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the backing track. I've extended it so that it follows the arrangement of the original recording. I suggest you listen to the original to get a feel for which bit goes where, how many repeat...
2019-08-09 17:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello from rural France! I'm here on holiday for the next couple of weeks. Internet is slow and patchy, but I've managed to get this week's video happening for you.
Here's the link:
... 2019-08-09 17:27:45 +0000 UTC View PostAfternoon all! It's nice lick time once again. This one's a useful rock 'n' roll or rockabilly kind of phrase. In the video I also get into a bit of 7th chord inversion theory which I hope you'll f...
2019-08-02 13:55:38 +0000 UTC View Post