How to Sing and Play Guitar Okay, back with a quick lesson this week. This lesson shows my method for learning to sing and play guitar at the same time. Below is the music notation and chords to play this lesson and a video I suggest learning to count and play the rhythm first,[…]
How To Sing And Play Guitar
By Ed Sadler Guitar Lessons, Vocal Lessons Aug 30, 2013
5 Tricks To Make People Think You’re Amazing At Guitar Alright, it has been a year. Time flies, what can I say lol! I want to just put this out there. This is not a lesson designed to make you a better musician per se, although if you get something musical out of it[…]
Dorian Mode For Guitar
By Ed Sadler Guitar Lessons Jun 08, 2012
Dorian Mode For Guitar Hey everyone, been a while but I have some time this week so I have made up a little lesson on modes and mainly dorian mode. If you remember from my past lessons, a major scale is made up of specific intervals. These intervals are as follows: WWHWWWH The reason the[…]
Scalebusters 2 – 4ths
By Ed Sadler Guitar Lessons Apr 09, 2012
Scalebusters 2 – 4ths Back with another scalebuster for you. This week we tackle 4ths. Below is the scale diagram from which I am drawing the intervals: Click to enlarge the diagram Memorize this scale with all downstrokes first then try alternate picking. After you are adept at the scale, then you are ready to[…]
Scalebusters #1
By Ed Sadler Guitar Lessons Apr 01, 2012
Scalebusters #1 This week I have some scalebusters for you to break out of the major scale rut you have been in. We are going to do what are called 3rds. A 3rd is an interval. An interval is the distance, measured in half steps and whole steps from one note to another. Playing 3rd[…]
Tremolo Tricks!
By Ed Sadler Guitar Lessons Mar 24, 2012
Tremolo Tricks! This week we are going to do some not so musical type things. Tremolo bar, wang bar, whammy bar, call it what you will but the use of this effect in the rock guitarist’s pantheon is downright magical in the right hands. I pulled the old 80s guitar with the whammy bar[…]
Five Fine Odd Time Basslines
By Ed Sadler Bass Lessons Mar 16, 2012
Thought I would finally add a bass lesson on here since I do teach bass as well as guitar and vocals. For this lesson I have dug up “Five Fine Odd Time Basslines” that propel some of the more popular tunes ever recorded. Odd time or compound time as it is also called basically means[…]
Slide Guitar
By Ed Sadler Guitar Lessons Mar 07, 2012
Slide Guitar Okay, sorry about not getting a lesson in last week, it was a busy week, what can I say. So this time I want to talk about some basic slide guitar in standard tuning. When doing this technique it is best to have your action a little higher than it would be[…]
Jump Guitar Solo Lesson
By Ed Sadler Guitar Lessons Feb 26, 2012
Jump Guitar Solo Lesson Sometimes I get on a kick and I go searching for old tunes I liked to play when I was a kid. While in the process of surfing around I found someone teaching the Jump guitar solo by Van Halen. I thought to myself, “That doesn’t sound right!” So I searched[…]
Making Music Matter – Darren Grahn Interview I recently did an interview with Darren Grahn, rock producer/engineer for many of the bands you know and love. Darren has worked in the trenches with Bob Rock (Metallica, OLP etc) and Randy Staub (mixer of Nickelback, Theory Of A Deadman etc) for years honing his craft. If[…]