Dr Simon

Sick of having to spend money performing routine maintenance? Sick of your intonation being out? This series will help you learns ways to set up your guitar.

This tutorial is a series a Jam tracks I've made. They are available in the Jam Station.

This tutorial will explain to you what is a 12 bar blues progression and how you can modify your basic progression into a more interesting variation.

This tutorial will explain to you what is a 12 bar blues progression and how you can modify your basic progression into a more interesting variation.

This tutorial is a series a Jam tracks I've made. They are available in the Jam Station.

Sick of having to spend money performing routine maintenance? Sick of your intonation being out? This series will help you learns ways to set up your guitar.

This is one of the first songs I recorded and like "Cool waters" is an example used in a couple of other lessons. Again the mix is a bit rough and needs some work however,...

As we have previously mentioned in an earlier lesson, triad chords consist of three tones and the interval between these tones defines the chord. A major triad chord consists of...

Similar to the previous lesson I am using a sliding scale to move from playing chords at the nut to a blues scale at the 5th fret (A minor) Here I have used the full Sliding...

This is a combination of the last two lessons plus a little extra something that I have thrown in for good measure. By now you have an idea of the sort of licks I string...

This is just major arpeggios D, A and G. Try soloing over the top of them first with an A m pent or blues scale. ALso try moving form Major to minor.

This is a track I have been working on i.e. it is a work in progress. The reason it is up here is that I'm using it as an example of inverted chords for another lesson. As...

Slide work can be found by players such as Duane Allman, Derek Trucks, Eric Clapton, Joe Walsh, Jeff Beck, ZZ Top (i.e. Tres Hombres and Fandango) and The Rolling Stones (i.e....

This is a lesson that uses major and minor 7th chords. I think these are very unusual sounding jazzy chords and that they can be used together to great effect. The...

This is an exercise based on tapping out various arpeggios. In each case you are tapping (I am using the bird flipping finger on my right hand) and puling, puling...

This is a common lick I use as a rhythm for 12 bar. It is pretty lively and you can see it in full swing in my lesson addressing Sliding A shapes in the Bar chords and...

Similar to the last lesson this is another repeating lick I use as a rhythm piece whilst playing slide 12 bar. Again don\'t be afraid to slap on a bit of distortion and blast...

This is the bare bones of some 12 bar in A for people to practice there blues playing with. Me and a student (Brett, you know who you are) have been working on this I we thought...