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- Wynton Marsalis
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Brown Belt: Level 7 Guitar Lessons |
Improve Your Solos with Drones and Pedal Notes
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No matter how fast you can play, no matter how technically brilliant your fretwork, unless you build good melody into your lead playing, you will quickly lose your audience. This lesson will show you how you can use droning and pedal notes for solo practice to help your sharpen your melodic sensibilities and make your solo and lead playing more interesting and emotionally compelling. |
Category: Brown Belt: Licks
Subcategory: Lead
Published on: 20 May 2004
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Learning to Play Leads Using the Vector Method
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Having trouble hearing all those fast notes from your favorite players? Try the techniques in this lesson to help you dissect and interpret the most elaborate and lively leads. Learn to make the leads uniquely your
own, while preserving the essence of the original artist. |
Category: Brown Belt: Licks
Subcategory: Lead
Published on: 21 May 2004
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Musical Vitamins for Guitar Players
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To always be ready for peak performance, we need to be sharp and at our best physically, mentally and spiritually. This lesson will give us a complete list of musical Vitamins, that when taken in recommended doses will help us to enable us to absorb the music we ingest, process it, and derive energy from it. Musical vitamins also help us grow, stave off disease that can afflict musicians and heal ourselves musically. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Peak Performance
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Ongoing Growth: Horizontally and Vertically
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A black belt guitar player should be both wide and deep, as explained in the sections below. Also the black belt guitar player should be continually expanding both horizontally and vertically. This lesson has a few ideas to keep you growing and make you a wider and deeper player. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Peak Performance
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Overtones and Natural Harmonics
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This lesson will show where natural guitar harmonics are found on your guitar, and how to avoid unwanted harmonic feedback. You'll learn enough practical theory and observations to understand harmonics. |
Category: Brown Belt: Theory
Subcategory: Harmonics
Published on: 21 Apr 2004
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Set Management: A Must-Have in Performing
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Even when you have learned 1000 songs, and have achieved superstar status... the most you'll ever be able to play for an audience in one concert is about 20. Most gigs we play while coming up through the ranks are much shorter, so what you don't play is as important as what you do play. This lesson will help you polish your performances to knock the socks off your audience. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Peak Performance
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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The Essence and Importance of Flow
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Listening to music, we hardly notice how music flows from one measure or from one phrase or section to the next. But playing flowing music requires many months of study and training. Developing timing and flow cannot be rushed any more in music than in learning a new language. It takes time, effort, practice, trials, errors and reinforcement and celebration of successes. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Wednesday
Published on: 26 Jan 2005
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Want to Turbocharge your Guitar Learning Abilities?
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Effective Learning habits and methods can teach you how to transform any idle time into quality practice time whether you have your guitar or not. This reference will teach you how to effectively learn to play your instrument... even when you don't have your instrument with you. You can potentially be learning to play guitar 24 hours a week, even if you only have a guitar in hand for 5 or 6 hours a week. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Learning
Published on: 13 Oct 2003
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Your Attention Channels
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This lesson gives some ideas that help to boost concentration. By gaining total control over our ability to concentrate, we open the physical, mental and physical channels that allow music to flow freely. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Concentration
Published on: 06 Jul 2004
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Downloadable tablature and sound clips:
Upload Name: Back on Terra Firma Artist/Composer: Hellecasters File Type: Size: 1052123 Description: The Hellecasters pour it on in this lead that builds up powerfully over 32 bars. There are a lot of techniques here. Take them in chunks. |
Upload Name: Scuttle Buttin' Artist/Composer: Stevie Ray Vaughan File Type: Size: 606435 Description: Stevie Ray and Double Trouble lay down a very heavy track worth learning individually, but extremely fun to play in a tight threesome. |
Upload Name: Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming Artist/Composer: Steve Morse File Type: Size: 681855 Description: Some people dismiss it, but I love the tone of Steve's pickups so much I went out and retrofitted my strat with DiMarzio's. This lead shows what they can do. |
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