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Holiday in Cambodia Backing Track

Here's my backing track. It follows the arrangement of the single version. Another great bass line too. Maybe I should start up a bass channel and go through some of these as well? On second though...

Holiday In Cambodia by Dead Kennedys

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A punk classic for you this week from Dead Kennedys. And even if you're not that into punk you might still like to give this one a go: this is punk with great songwriting and grea...

Morricone - Good, The Bad and the Ugly

Hi everyone. This week, in celebration of the genius of Ennio Morricone, I've put together a little arrangement of one of his best known pieces - the main theme from spaghetti western The Good, The...

The Cure - Play For Today Backing Track

Here's my backing. I spent an unnecessary amount of time trying to replicate that weird drum effect you can hear in the intro. In the end I decided to use just the reverb return from a snare drum (...

The Cure - Play For Today

Hello all. I've had quite a few requests for this one, so I sat down earlier this week to try and figure it out. Makes you realise what a great and underrated guitarist Robert Smith is. Here's a li...

Nice Lick 14

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Hope everyone's doing OK. It's Nice Lick time once again, and today I have a short, stylish blues lick for you. This one gives you a great way to smoothly connect pairs of pentatonic p...

All About The Whole Tone Scale

Hello all! This week I'm taking a look at the weird and wonderful whole tone scale. There's some theory, some famous examples from Monk, Fripp and Debussy, and I discuss how you might actually use ...

Black Sabbath - Snowblind

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This week I'm looking at the Black Sabbath track Snowblind. It's quite rare that I look at proper ROCK music on my channel but I really enjoyed learning this track and putting the ...

Solo Acoustic Blues In E

Morning all! I've had few requests for more acoustic videos, so this week I'm bringing you a nice little fingerstyle  blues piece. I've tried to keep things approachable for most players. The ...

Endless Summer Backing Track

Here's my backing track. It follows the arrangement of the original recording. Enjoy playing along!

Theme from The Endless Summer

This week, a beautiful surf instrumental that was new to me until fairly recently. It's part of the soundtrack to a 1966 surf film (which I still need to watch...)

Really fun to play, and not...

Streets of Baltimore Solo Backing Track

Here’s my backing track. It’s not the entire song, just the chord progression underneath the solo (which is the same as the chorus chords I think). I've repeated it four times. Use it to practi...

Streets of Baltimore, James Burton Solo

Hello all! This week I’m taking a look at a short but perfectly-formed solo from country guitar great James Burton. You can hear it on Gram Parsons’ first solo record, GP. (If you don’t alrea...

Ron Asheton

Hello all. Hope everyone's doing well. This week, I have a very different top 5 for you: my favourite riffs from The Stooges' Ron Asheton. Simple, brilliant stuff from one of the great rock n roll ...

My 5 Favourite Nile Rodgers Riffs

We're getting funky in this week's video with a rundown of some of my favourite Nile Rodgers guitar parts. I'm also talking about how to get a good funk guitar sound. Here's a link to the video:&nb...

Rainy Night Bonus Content

As promised, here's a quick look at the rest of Cornell Dupree's parts on Rainy Night In Georgia. I suggest printing out the tab and following along. Hope you find this helpful. See you on Friday f...

Rainy Night In Georgia Backing Track

OK, here's the backing. It's the full song, arrangement as per the original recording. Enjoy playing along!

Rainy Night In Georgia

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Sorry I'm a bit later than usual with the new video - a couple of last minute technical issues, but I got there in the end.

This week, I'm looking at Cornell Dupree's masterf...

Dreams Burn Down Backing Track

Here's my backing. It follows the arrangement of the original recording. Drums and fuzz bass. For those of you who are into recording, it might be fun to import the backing to your DAW of choice an...

Dreams Burn Down

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Hope you're all doing well. I though it was about time I looked at some shoegaze - I'm sure many of you on here are fans of this style of music. The song I've gone for is Drea...

Improv Session 2: Albert King-Style Blues

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This week I have another improv session for you. I play over a backing in the style of the Albert King classic Crosscut Saw. Then I go through various soloing ideas, from some some...

Rip It Up Backing Track

Here's the backing to accompany this week's video. I had fun programming the TB303-style bass parts. It follows the arrangement of the original recording, and fades out on the outro section, which ...

Rip It Up by Orange juice

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You asked for it, and in this week's video I'm looking at some Orange Juice. I've gone for what's probably the obvious track - Rip It Up - their first and only hit single from 1983...

Minor Triad Workout Backing Track

Here's the backing for this week's lesson. I had fun trying some Serge Gainsbourg-style bass licks. I've looped it to make it a bit longer so you'll be able to play the exercise several times. Feel...

Fun Minor Triad Workout

Following on from the fun major triad workout video I did a little while back, here's the minor edition. I can't stress enough how important it is to really know your triads, and this exercise is d...

River Man by Nick Drake

Hello everyone. In this week's video I'm taking a look at River Man by Nick Drake. It's quite an intricate fingersyle piece in 5/4 time, but not as hard as you might imagine to play.

Watch th...

I'm Set Free by The Velvet Underground

Morning all. Hope everyone's doing well. As I mentioned a couple of week's ago I'm going to occasionally be doing some extra little Patreon-only videos. Yesterday I filmed a quick exploration of th...

Nice Lick 13

Hello all. This week I've been playing around with this hybrid-picked country idea, and I thought I'd share it with you. As usual with these lick videos, I show you the lick but also talk a bit abo...

Six Bells Chime Backing Track

Here's my backing track. I've looped it so you have 2 verses and 2 choruses. This one's a little repetitive without the vocals in there, but I hope you enjoy playing along. You could always use it ...

Six Bells Chime

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Perhaps a slightly obscure choice of song this week, but it's a gem of a track by the band Crime and the City Solution, featuring some excellent twangy riffs from one of my favou...