[VIDEO] Wide Interval String Skipping Sweep Legato

Over the Christmas holiday I had the chance to explore some Martin Miller and Hut lessons, as detailed in this blog right here.

Bedtime at my house

Well the other day before bed I picked up my guitar and two similar figures came out within moments.

[Video] Adapting Picking Patterns, or Radiohead’s Got Rhythm

When I was a young man in university, I thought I was an alright guitar player. My friend Pat, who was learning to play guitar at the time, came back from one of our work stints having added Radiohead‘s Street Spirit to his repertoire. I would be damned if I could have some young upstart thinking he was actually better than me, of course. Naturally, I got him to show me how to play it.

Radioheeeeeeeed

Being a new guitar player, Pat played Street Spirit with a pick / plectrum, and with all down-picks. As we say in the sciences: an elegant solution, this was not.

[Video] Tonight You Belong To Me

Last night I decided I had spent enough of my life without ever knowing what chords were used in Bjork‘s Like Someone In Love, definitely a #firstworldproblem. After looking that up, not being satisfied with anything I found, and starting to put together my own arrangement, I went to bed.

The Bjorkster

This morning I woke up, and thought about how if I ever succeeded in an arrangement of Like Someone in Love, I should totally put it on YouTube. And then I remembered I’d already done one for Tonight You Belong To Me, which is SO much easier.

Here’s my arrangement of Tonight You Belong To Me, at my preferred tempo. The original is by Billy Rose and Lee David, made famous by Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters in the film The Jerk.

[Video] Gypsy Jazz, C Major Turnarounds, and Substitution magic

Oh hai friend.

The other day I stumbled across this video for a C Major turnaround lifted from Angelo DeBarre, which I enjoyed.

Unfortunately, no tablature was included in the lesson. So I have been nice enough to provide some. And in the process I ended up learning some stuff. So now I am sharing. Check the PowerTab file here.

[Video] A Day To Remember – Original Jazz Arrangement

Oh WordPress.com, how I’ve missed you. And oh how patiently you’ve waited for me to return to you, with your spam folder filled with nonsense comments, and all-new menus.

To business!

I have been having a bad day. Not as bad as Steve Jobs, perhaps, but decidedly far too much time spent in a doctor’s office, thank you very much.

Upon my return home this evening, I decided to muck around with some jazz chord voicings that I’ve been lifting from All Jazz Blues, and some lead licks that I copped from a PowerTab of Django‘s Sweet Georgia Brown, which I downloaded last night prior to falling asleep on the couch with my guitar on my chest.

This dude, is THE dude

On being a bad guitar player

Are you feeling a little unsatisfied in the bedroom?

Obviously I mean unsatisfied with your guitar ability, since I’m certain you do most of your practicing in your bedroom. Weenie.

[Video] Video posted for Variations on Petrucci’s Rock Discipline

Hello all.

I have recorded a run through of my variations on John Petrucci’s Rock Discipline Exercise 15, as featured in a previous article. I use this in the morning to practice my Three Note Per String (TNPS) shapes. And for a while there, I thought I sounded pretty good. Unfortunately, I went back and watched Petrucci’s original demo after recording this lesson. Let’s just say my version doesn’t quite sound like Flight of the Bumblebees…

Lesson – 4-Finger Per String + Diminished Insanity

Hi there.

A funny thing happened to me the other day. I went to the park to play guitar, and discovered that I could merge 4-note per string shapes with the diminished scales we all know and love. Isn’t that crazy? I know, right?

Well, if you think you can handle to insanity, you can follow along using the PDF and Powertab files: