Top 10 Tips for Better Music Rhythm If I could sum up the most requested question after 30 years of teaching music, it would be “I need help with strumming and rhythm.” While some students get rhythm right away, most need many hours of practice to develop...
In today’s blues mandolin lesson, we will create a 4-riff blues solo over a 12 bar blues progression in the key of G by using a few of the G scales below. We will repeat and transpose the riffs to match the chords in the standard 12 bar blues progression. If you are...
In today’s lesson, we will make a simple 12 bar blues solo in the key of D using the open position blues scale in open D guitar tuning (D A D F# A D). Most guitarists can do this naturally in good old standard tuning after learning a few blues scales and then...
In today’s cigar box guitar lesson, we will use your slide to jam on a 12 bar roots/blues. We will learn to play some chords with the slide and review 5 basic slide techniques all players need to know. Check out the exercise videos and tabs below and download the...
In today’s cigar box guitar lesson, let’s learn 10 major chord shapes you should know. If you are a beginner at cigar box guitar, the first thing you will want to learn is how to play a few basic chords. We will use the open G tuning on the 3-string tuned G-D-G. ...
Do you use your fingers when playing the cigar box guitar? Do you want to find some fingerpicking patterns you can learn to sound better? Then maybe it’s time to master one of the most popular guitar fingerstyle techniques and apply it to your 3 or 4-string cigar box...
Grab your mandolin, and let’s jam some blues! Though blues may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you picture the mandolin, be sure with a slide here and a hammer on there, you can be as expressive on this 4-string axe as any! Here’s a few...
Robert Critchley is a musician and songwriter and composes music for film and television. He has 30 years of experience recording, editing and mixing custom recording projects. His music has recently been featured on “American Pickers” on the A&E...
Improvising a music solo is intimidating when you first start out and also if you are a seasoned player. There is so much to consider when you make a solo. The theoretical part of knowing which scales to use to the emotional intent must be taken into account. It can...
Learning how to play the slide guitar can be one of the most expressive ways to play the guitar, be free of your tempered fret tuning, and seamlessly glide between notes. To make your guitar sing like an angel or stutter like a motorbike is possible with this tiny...
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