ZZ Top Guitar Riffs We had such an overwhelming response to our David Bowie riff videos (playing three patterns, one after the other) in the last issue, that we have decided to do…
The Eagles Lyin Eyes Following on from the rhythm intro lessons to Lyin’ Eyes by The Eagles in issue 4, we have now put together tuition videos for the lead guitar intro so…
Acoustic guitar strumming lessons Mr. Jones by The Counting Crows, The Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer and More Than A Feeling by Boston have 3 distinctive must know strumming patterns; each one completely different and…
Guitar Improvisation Lesson Introduction Black Magic Woman Sultans Of Swing Phone Booth Backing Track Hi Andy here!! The ability to jam over backing tracks (or even with a live band) probably…
B Flat Diminished Chord In the last issue we promised to bring you an unusual melodic chord – but we have failed to deliver due to a deluge of e mails asking us…
Billy Gibbons Blues Licks A man with such a beard and such a crazy collection of guitars is not often associated with such a deft touch and catchy songs of women and booze….actually…
Hotel California Lead Licks. Introduction Lick 1 Lick 2 Lick 3 Lick 4 Everyone talks about, and in fact teaches or learns, the intro or the lead solo to Hotel California, which…
Horse With No Name. Easy guitar lesson. Have you ever wanted to play a classic song that has some unusual chords that are easy to play? Well try Horse With No Name…
Earl Slick Interview Earl Slick: Veteran Guitarist Featured On New Bowie Single & Album Like many parts of the United States, New York City has its own dialectic peculiarities. One of them is…
The Hendrix Chord. E7#9 I can’t believe we are already 4 issues to the good, and, therefore, by definition, discussing our 4th chord of the month. The E-seventh-sharp-nine-chord –…
Dougie Maclean Caledonia This month I got in touch with one of the biggest names in Scottish folk music, Dougie Maclean, OBE. Below is my arrangement of one of Dougie’s best-known pieces, Caledonia. Many…
E Minor Pentatonic improvisation. Introduction Practice Riff 1 Riff 2 Riff 3 What Have We Achieved So Far? The first improvisation session covered the E minor pentatonic scale in the open…
