How to Play Lead Electric Blues Guitar

How to the lead blues guitarists do it, they make it look so easy!? -- Here's how.

This is an excellent video tutorial on soloing the blues in the style of BB King on the electric guitar. Blues soloing is comprised of various blues chords (which he demonstrates) and rhythms along with fills and solo licks made over those chords.

What I mean by "solo licks made over those chords" is positioning your hand as if you were to play a chord and then hitting notes which are a part of the pentatonic scale which makes up the chord. Put more simply, you just hit notes which sound appropriate to the chord (typically one or two frets up from the fret you are basing the bar of the chord on). This will take some practice to learn which notes sound right for the chord and which do not if you are unfamiliar with music theory.

Practice the different chord shapes and blues licks that he employs and then begin adding in some vibrato, hammer-ons, pull-offs and exaggerated bending. After you begin to feel more comfortable, start creating your own licks over chord patterns and see what you can come up with. This will help you to develop a more "improvisational" ear which is key to blues soloing.

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How to Play Romantic Piano

Here is a nice introduction to improvising romantic-sounding music and songs on the piano. The first half of the video is more pertinent to beginning pianists. Practice moving through the C, Fm and G chords while improvising notes with the right hand. This chord progression is at the "heart" of many romantic ballads and songs.

Here are representations of the C, Fm and G chords that he uses in the video.

C

Fm

G

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How to Replace Strings on the Acoustic Guitar

Here is a good video tutorial detailing proper string replacement on the acoustic guitar. All guitarists should know how to properly string their instrument as it can be very important to the longevity of their strings. This video aims to provide you with the tools and techniques that you need to lessen the stress of string replacement!

Remember to wind strings inside the tuning pegs (spin left pegs to the left and right pegs to the right when tightening).



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Learn Blues Improvisation on the Piano

This short video tutorial gets into a bit of blues improvisation on the piano. By playing off a typical blues scale (such as C blues scale in this example), you can easily add in fills and improvise to create a nice blues solo improvisation.

This close-up look into blues soloing will teach you how to effectively take the concepts of blues improvisation to any type of blues music, just pick out the scale being used and have fun with it!

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Guitar Fingerpicking for Beginners

This video tutorial jumps right into fingerpicking for the beginning guitarist. It teaches you the terminology, notation and proper technique which first and foremost must be understood before you begin learning how to fingerpick.

Remember to start out keeping your hand steadily hovered over the strings and then naturally pluck each string with the finger directly above it without moving your right hand. After it begins to feel more natural, try speeding it up a bit while concentrating on keeping your right hand steady and making your fingers do the work.

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How to Play "I See You" from Avatar on the Piano

Learn how to play "I See You" by Leona Lewis from the hugely popular film Avatar.

This video tutorial provides a slowed down overhead view of the pianist moving through the chords in the song. Also included are the notes for each chord as they play them.

Watch closely how the pianist moves through different chord changes with the right and left hands. This tutorial can also be a valuable lesson in chord progression and chord changes on the piano.

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The Holy Grail of Memorizing Guitar Chords-Part 2

Part 2 of the highly effective and helpful technique to memorize guitar chords. Remember not to "walk" the chords one at a time but "land" them all at once. It takes some practice but once you begin to utilize this technique regularly, you will begin to really see better results in memorizing and "grabbing" guitar chords however difficult they may be.

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