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| Lick of the Month - July 2006 |
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| This month is a soulful and fancy Stevie Ray Vaughn blues lick in the key of G. When learning this lick try get the feel down not just the notes! Feel is the most important when playing the blues especially when playing SRV. Included is the tab and midi file for easy reference. |
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| Lick of the Month - June 2006 |
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| This months lick is based on soloing over II V chords in a jazz guitar style. This lick is a Wes Montgomery lick inside and out. The tab and midi file is included for easy reference. Hope you enjoy! |
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| Lick of the Month - May 2006 |
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| This months lick is more of a technique builder then a lick. By learning this you will improve your picking and fretting hand substantially. It's based from the G major scale using 3 notes per string. Included is the tab and midi file for easy reference. |
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| Lick of the Month - April 2006 |
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| This months lick is another example of the A minor Blues Scale based in the 5th position. It has a Funky Country,Blues Sound all mixed in, almost in the Jimi Hendrix guitar style! Included is a midi file and tab for easy reference. |
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| Lick of the Month - March 2006 |
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| This months lick is a slick neo classical style run in A Major with a blues twist. The lick starts with a classical ostinato then adds tension with some blues slides and finishes off with a nice decending arpeggio. Tab and midi file included for easy reference. |
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| Lick of the Month - Feb 2006 |
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| This months lick is a blues, funk, jazzy lick combined using the G Blues Scale. Make note the use of the thumb throughout, a technique often used by the late Jimi Hendrix. A tab file and midi file is included for easy reference. Good luck and have fun! |
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| Lick of the Month - Jan 2006 |
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| This months lick has a soulful blues taste. It reminds me of a Chuck Berry blues lick jazzed up. The Tab and Midi File is included for easy reference. Hope you enjoy! |
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| Lick of the Month - Dec 2005 |
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| This months lick is based in the style of guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, guitarist of the band Extreme. Uses a basic G minor blues pentatonic scale and sounds real cool played up to speed. A Midi File is included for easy refernece. |
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| The 5 Minor Pentatonic Scale Forms |
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| The Pentatonic Scales "Penta meaning 5 in Greek" are basic versions of the major and minor scales. The Major and Minor Scales have 7 notes and the pentatonic scales only have 5 excluding the 4 and 7th tone in major and the 2 and 6th tone in minor(natural minor). Minor Pentatonics are used relentlessly in Blues and Rock music among others styles. Once learn the five minor forms you can play them in all keys. We will focus only on the minor pentatonic forms for now but will dedicate another file just for the major pentatonic. |
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| Lick of the month - Nov 2005 |
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Good news we are bringing back our Guitar Lick of the month now posted under the file Top Scales. Thanks to everyone for sending your feedback. Note: Some of the licks that will be posted is from our old Lick of the month archives no need to let them go unnoticed. Hope you enjoy! |
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| Minor 7th Arpeggios |
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| In this Lesson we will look at some Minor 7th Arpeggios. As Mentioned in the previous Major 7th Arpeggio lesson, we said an Arpeggio was playing a chord one note at a time rather then all at once. First let's look at a basic arpeggio in the key of A Minor. |
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| Major 7 Arpeggios |
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| brian writes "In this Lesson we will look at Major 7th Arpeggios. An Arpeggio is playing a chord one note at a time instead of strumming at once. I'm sure there's a more technical definition of what an arpeggio is but mine is in layman's terms. Let's get started.
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| C Major Scale 24 Fret Diagram |
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| Continuing our popular 24 fret scale diagram, this time we included the C Major Scale. Nothing feels better to a guitarist then knowing his or her notes and positions on the guitar. See the attachment below to view the diagram. |
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| The Double Harmonic Scales |
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| The double harmonic scale can be represented by the following notes c,d flat, e, f, g, ab, b. This is the only prime scale that is not proper, and with three types of second (major, minor and augmented) it is a melodically rough scale. The augmented seconds certainly give the scale a North African or Middle Eastern flavor, and make it quite unsuitable for common practice classical, where the augmented second is considered to be unmelodic. |
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| International Scales/Modes |
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| For all you scale and mode buffs out there here's a list of all well known International Scales and Modes. The Chart list each Scale Degree, Semitone Structures etc. |
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Did You Know? |
The Dorian Mode is the second mode after the Ionian Mode
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Archived Files |
| Monday, July 17 | | · | Lick of the Month - July 2006 |
| Wednesday, May 31 | | · | Lick of the Month - June 2006 |
| Monday, May 01 | | · | Lick of the Month - May 2006 |
| Saturday, April 08 | | · | Lick of the Month - April 2006 |
| Saturday, March 04 | | · | Lick of the Month - March 2006 |
| Sunday, February 05 | | · | Lick of the Month - Feb 2006 |
| Sunday, January 01 | | · | Lick of the Month - Jan 2006 |
| Thursday, December 01 | | · | Lick of the Month - Dec 2005 |
| Sunday, November 13 | | · | The 5 Minor Pentatonic Scale Forms |
| · | Lick of the month - Nov 2005 |
| Saturday, December 20 | | · | Minor 7th Arpeggios |
| Wednesday, December 17 | | · | Major 7 Arpeggios |
| Monday, December 15 | | · | C Major Scale 24 Fret Diagram |
| Sunday, December 14 | | · | The Double Harmonic Scales |
| · | International Scales/Modes |
| Thursday, December 04 | | · | Harmonic Minor Scale - 24 Fret Diagram |
| · | Harmonic Scale and Chord Theory |
| Wednesday, November 12 | | · | The Minor Pentatonic Blues Scale - 24 Fret Diagram |
| Monday, November 10 | | · | The Minor Pentatonic Scale - 24 Frets Diagram |
| Thursday, October 23 | | · | SPANISH GYPSY SCALE - 24 Fret Diagram |
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