• Guitar Tunings – Open D Tuning • Re-Locating Notated Melodies
• Augmented 6th Chords • Open String Blues
• Reggae Fills and Hooks • 8-Bar Blues Variations
Guitar Tunings Simplified - Open D Tuning
Learn how to completely understand any type of tuning that you would place the guitar into. Open D is explained during the lesson as an example of the procedure.
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This Music Reading lesson focuses on a 5th position notated melody and explains how to re-locate the melody over to the 7th as well as, the 9th fingerboard position.
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Demonstrates unique 1st inversion chords showing how they can be used with the 3rd chord tone in the bass. An explanation of the relationship from the lowest note (the 3rd chord tone) to the highest (the chord's root) is explained.
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In the Blues style, many licks and lines are primarily built in the open or first position, (frets 0-5), of the fret-board. This video examines a 12-Bar Blues progression using a collection of open string licks, lines and runs.
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This lesson discusses how Reggae 2nd guitar parts can often incorporate phrasing concepts like; down-picking technique, the Rolling technique, and double-stop chord concepts as a way to add interesting fills and hooks.
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The 8-Bar Blues is the second most popular Blues progression next to the 12-Bar format. Three variations of the 8-Bar Blues progression are given during this video lesson.
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