This week I am answering a couple of readers that wanted to know about how to change fretboard positions while tapping and another wondering how to produce pick harmonics which are also called artificial harmonics. Send in your ideas and I will make some space to cover your questions too. I have provided video and[…]
Guitar Tapping & Pick Harmonics
By Ed Sadler Guitar Lessons Jan 28, 2012
Hello there, hopefully you have been woodshedding (practicing for all you noobs) those two C major scale fingerings and exercises that went along with them. This week I have a couple of solos I improvised using both of those fingerings that I recorded and wrote down in tab to show you the two scales in[…]
Using Stop Time, Plus A Green Day Riff! Happy New Year everyone, glad to be back at the blog here! This week I want you to use the info I have provided so far on practicing chords, learning the fretboard, and stop time all in this one lesson. If you don’t know[…]
Chord Duplication And “Stop Time” Rhythm Figures Welcome back! So this week we are going to learn to duplicate some movable chords as well as a few basic notation symbols. If you have never had music lessons before, you need to learn some basic concepts of time. To convey how long and how many times[…]
Learn the fretboard + music theory! Hello and thanks for joining me again! Today I want to discuss learning the natural notes found on the thick E (by now you know the guitar has 2 E strings…I hope) and the A strings of the guitar. There are patterns on the guitar fretboard and we can[…]
Call And Response Blues (Let’s jam!) Hey everyone, this lesson I am going to talk about a blues technique known as trading 2s or its more commonly known name, call and response. Now that you have last week’s blues rhythm in A, you can record it and try this technique with some of the licks[…]
A blues rhythm #1 for guitar
By Ed Sadler Guitar Lessons Dec 02, 2011
A blues rhythm #1 for guitar Hey everyone, this week it’s time to focus on some rhythm chops so you have something to play all those wonderful licks over that you have been learning from the last 3 lessons. This lesson we are dealing with 4 chords: A7, D9, E9 and F9. The easy part[…]
Extended blues scale 2 + 3 licks
By Ed Sadler Guitar Lessons Nov 25, 2011
Extended blues scale 2 + 3 licks This week we are dealing with the second of the 2 extended blues scales in the key of A. This pattern contains portions of pos 9, pos 12 and pos 2 up one octave and is also a great way to learn to connect those different scale positions.[…]
Extended A Blues Scale #1 + 3 Licks Hey everyone, this week we will tackle the extended A blues scale #1 and 3 licks that use the scale. This scale contains portions of pos. 5 of the scale as well as 2 others and is a great way to learn to connect those different scale[…]
A Blues Scale Pos 5 and 3 Licks. Okay, so the first scale I usually teach my students is the blues scale in A. Why? Well, it is a very simple scale that gets a lot of use in western music and so it should be easy to assimilate into your improvising. A blues[…]