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Lick of the Week, August 26 26 Aug 2013 | 04:35 pm
This week we have another ii-V-I lick. This one simply uses arpeggios to outline Dm7, G7, and Cmaj7 chords. Don’t be fooled by the simplicity of the notes, it’s actually a little tricky to play on the...
Lick of the Week, August 19 19 Aug 2013 | 04:28 pm
This week we’ll learn a simple, bluesy lick that’s excellent for beginners. Note the slurs in the notation where you use hammer-ons and pull-offs to make it easier to play fast. If you’ve enjoyed th...
PHAME Acadamy 15 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
I am very pleased to announce that I’ve joined the PHAME Academy of Fine Arts Artistic Advisory Board. PHAME, which stands for Pacific Honored Artists, Musicians and Entertainers, is a fine and perfor...
Lick of the Week, August 12 12 Aug 2013 | 05:21 pm
I originally learned this lick in open position (in the key of C) as a country/bluegrass sort of thing, but I’ve learned to play it with no open strings in a few different places to make it work over ...
Lick of the Week, August 5 5 Aug 2013 | 05:06 pm
This week I’ll share one of my favorite licks, which uses string skipping and stretching to cover large intervals while outlining a minor 9 chord. It’s simple yet challenging to play, and sounds beaut...
Lick of the Week, July 29 31 Jul 2013 | 04:54 pm
This is another great lick for beginners. The left hand plays a familiar triad shape while the right hand gets a nice picking workout. It’s a bebop lick at heart, but could work well over any sort of...
Lick of the Week, July 22 30 Jul 2013 | 01:52 am
L ast week got a bit crazy and I wasn’t able to make any videos, so here’s a lick for last week, and I’ll post this week’s in a few days. This week we’ll have some more fun with a lick loaded with go...
New Single with Drummer Travis Whitmore 23 Jul 2013 | 07:03 pm
Drummer Travis Whitmore and I have been talking about collaborating on music for, well, years now, and we’ve finally been able to release one track into the wild. Travis actually lives in Virginia, an...
Latest Online Lesson on PremierGuitar.com 22 Jul 2013 | 05:14 pm
My latest guitar lesson is also my debut lesson for Premier Guitar! Fretboard Workshop: Using Triads to Create a Solo covers six basic, four string triad shapes and teaches you how to create melodic s...
Lick of the Week, July 15 19 Jul 2013 | 07:12 pm
This week’s lick is great for beginners. It uses what is commonly referred to as the first “box” position of the minor pentatonic scale. We’re adding the flat 5, or Gb, to the pentatonic scale to crea...
