Dr Simon
emailBlues, Rock, Punk, Beginners Music Theory and Recording 104 Lessons, 53 with Video !!
- Instructor Since:
- November 3rd 2002
- Total Lessons:
- 31
- Latest Lesson:
- Alternate Tunings For Blues
Guitar Maintenance
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Re-stringing a Floyd RoseSick 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.
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Jam Tracks -
Blues for BeginnersThis 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.
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Blues for BeginnersThis 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.
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Jam Tracks -
Re-stringing a Floyd RoseSick 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.
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Hands OffThis 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,...
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Chord InversionsAs 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...
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Sliding into Pentatonic Scales 2Similar 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...
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Rock Blues Lick 5This 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...
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Starlight JamThis 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.
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Cool WatersThis 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...
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Blues Guitar Tone: The SlideSlide 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....
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Major and Minor 7thsThis 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...
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Tapping for Beginners (Neo-Classical)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...
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Rock / Blues Lick 3This 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...
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Rock / Blues Lick 4Similar 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...
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Brett's BluesThis 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...
