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http://www.guitarvideochannel.com/ui/jwplayer/player.swf Rasgueado is a flamenco guitar strumming technique using the back of the right hand fingernails in a similar way that a flatpicking guitarist would use the pick, creating a very Spanish sound. Adding a capo to your guitar creates an authentic sound. Here are the chords we will use in this lesson: Begin with […]
January 23, 2011
Ah my first interview with an artist. You’d think I’d be nervous. Either I’m over confident or Greg Smith was that accommodating. Things became much easier when I learned we lived close by. Now don’t go trying to find Greg’s house just yet. His current boss is, that’s right, Mr. Ted Nugent. If you know […]
January 19, 2011
On one of my recent guitar junkie trips to my local music shop the iStand by Hercules caught my eye. Looked to be a sturdy, portable stand that I could toss in my gig bag to take to the gig. I contacted the company and they were more than obliged to send one out for […]
January 17, 2011
What good is spending hours working on speed, melody, timing and firing breathing (Think Gene reads my blog?) techniques if your hands fail you? On a cold winter day you don’t turn the key in the ol’ Camaro and count on it being warmed up and ready to do a buck nineteen as you cruise […]
January 8, 2011
A few weeks back, I posted an article on reading music notation in the Bass Clef. I covered basic open strings and rhythms. This week I want to get back to those ideas and expand on rhythms a bit. In my opinion, being able to account for the smallest measurement of rhythm, whether playing or reading, […]
January 5, 2011
The String Cleaner by Tone Gear boasts it’s “The Ultimate String Cleaning Tool” How can I dispute a claim like that? After trying it out on a few guitars and basses I will say it is the easiest. What makes it stand out is it’s ability to clip into place while it wipes my strings […]
December 21, 2010
http://www.guitarvideochannel.com/ui/jwplayer/player.swf Tremolo is one of the most popular techniques in classical and flamenco guitar styles. We will begin to study this technique on our two thinnest strings by setting our right hand thumb up over the B string, and our right hand ring, middle and pointer fingers over the high E string. Place your left […]
December 18, 2010
Hello fellow low enders. I thought it would be nice to pull out and cover again all the extra exercises assigned with each new major scale covered this far. I was afraid these exercises would get lost in the archives. It will be nice to refresh your memory and be able to use them with any future […]
December 17, 2010
It wasn’t even a month ago, my friend Tim shows up at the door with the grossest looking Fender Stratocaster I had ever seen. It was as if someone had played it at Woodstock and stored it in a sweaty locker until he won it on Ebay and brought it over for me to help […]
December 17, 2010
You’ve got a great CD and you’d like to hear it on the radio, right? That’s a lot harder to do than just saying – “I’ll give it to the DJ, he’ll love it and play it.” Even if you fit the genre of what the station is spinning to a T, there are a […]
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