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Martin Simpson Youtube - Fingerstyle Guitar
Martin Simpson is one of the legends of contemporay British acoustic open tuning guitar. His roots are in folk but extends way past that. Martin Simpson is one of the most beautiful sounding acoustic guitar players you’ll ever have the pr...
Eric Clapton Youtube Blues - Outside Woman Blues
My introduction to the Cream featuring Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker was in 1969, I was 13 years old and just discovering music. By 1970 I had inherited four albums, Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced, John Wesley Harding by Dylan, Hu...
Guitar Chords - How to Make E chords Part 5
This is Part 5 of the 6 part series in Guitar Chords - How to Make E chordsAs stated in the other articles on Making Guitar Chords , chords generally have a 3rd, 5th and 7th. So to make an E Major Chord we need the first third and fifth of an E...
How Guitar Chords are Made - Part 4 of 6
These Chords are based around the Key of A. The Key of A has 3 sharps (#) C sharp, F sharp and G Sharp. As before in the last article, if you look at the music stave above, you’ll notice that I have numbered each note and also given it a...
Tommy Emmanuel youTube Video - Classical Gas
Tommy Emmanuel, the brilliant Australian guitar player playing Classical Gas on his Maton acoustic Guitar, quite a good combination. A couple of days ago I posted about Tommy Emmanuel’s youtube version of Amazing Grace. This youtube of ...
Tommy Emmanuel Youtube - Acoustic Guitar
It’s pretty hard to have an acoustic guitar site or blog without mentioning Tommy Emmanuel at some point. Over the years I’ve seen him play many times in different settings, both acoustic and electric. Although I’ve never been f...
How Guitar Chords are Made - Part 3
Here is the 3rd article in the series of How Guitar Chords are Made, in this one I am covering D chords. Note how in the first article C Chords, the Key of C has no sharps (#)or Flats (b) , wheras the G scale has one sharp. The key of D, you may...
How Guitar Chords are Made - Part 2
This is part 2 of a 6 Part series on Chord Construction for guitar. In my previous article on How Guitar Chords Are Made I covered three basic C chords. In this Article I shall cover three basic G chords. As before in the last article, if yo...
Guitar Chords
In my previous article I wrote about guitar chords consisting of a 1st , a 3rd, and a 5th. I thought I’d write a short article to reinforce the learning. The key of C consists of the notes: C D E F G A B and for those that live in Europe, the B...
Guitar Chords - How They Are Made
This is part 1 of a 6 Part series on Chord Construction for guitar. How chords are made is not that difficult to understand. You will require a tiny bit of patience and the ability to count up to 13 and also know the alphabet from A to G. Having ...
Guitar Scale Pentatonic Major in B Flat - Part 6 of 6
This guitar scale is the final one in may six part series on Pentatonic Scales. As you my remember from my previous web blog posts, I decided to do a short series because many players have difficulty following through if there is too much informati...
Lightning Hopkins youTube Blues Guitar
Todays video youtube post is Lighning Hopkins, the classic acoustic blues guitar player, he has influenced thousands of players across the world. He was a Texas Blues player and was inspired by Blind Lemon Jefferson. His music holds an important pa...
Milton Nascimento Gilberto Gil youTube
Milton Nascimento and Gilberto Gil are both legends in Brazil, I think it’s important to hear the great players from other cultures and not get locked into one style. I became aware of Milton in the mid seventies when he appeared on a Wayne...
Pentatonic Major Scale for Guitar in D - Part 5 of 6
This Pentatonic Major Scale in D is very useful on acoustic guitar. Note how I’ve used the open E string to create a bit of time to jump up the fretboard to the 7th fret. This scale is very suitable for improvising over a D chord, it doesn&#...
Stevie Ray Vaughan youTube Acoustic Blues Guitar
If you love acoustic guitar and also Blues, the chances are you’d like Stevie Ray Vaughan playing acoustic blues. I saw Stevie Ray play years ago with his trio, sensational. But I never saw him play acoustic guitar, unfortunate. I did get...
John Mayer youTube
John Mayer is still very young but in a few short years he’s been able to gain the respect of guitar players across the world. This youtube video on acoustic guitar is called Heart of Life; he manages to to mantain a a solid vocal part while ...
Jack Johnson and Ben Harper youTube
Jack Johnson, the man that has redifined the word ‘relax’ and Ben Harper, a player that has always managed to player with a maturity way beyond his age. To have them together is quite a treat. For quite a few years during the eighties...
Pentatonic Major Scale in E - Part 3 of 6
This is the 3rd article about guitar scales, this is pentatonic major scale in the Key of E. It’s very useful for improvising in the Key of E, it’s reasonably ’safe sounding’ and difficult to go wrong with it if you are solo...
John Mayer and Eric Clapton youTube
John Mayer and Eric Clapton, a nice combination. It’s always great to see some of the older musicians playing with much younger ones. It’s a reasonably simple song, John Mayer takes a short guitar break, he has a very nice sensde of...
Guitar Scales - Pentatonic Major Part 2 of 6
The Pentatonic Major scale is pretty common amongst rock players. I’ve written it here in the key of G. It consists of 5 notes, G A B D E. If someone were to turn those notes into a chord it would be a G6 add9 , some might call it a G6 su...
Guitar Scales Pentatonic Minor - Part 1 of 6
Are you feeling a little stuck and having difficulty organizing your practice? Well, I’ve decided to do a six part series on scales to get the old fingers going, READ ON This is the first of a six part series on guitar scales. I’ve...
Paul Gilbert youTube
Paul Gilbert on acoustic guitar, you may remember him from Racer X and Mr Big. In this youtube video he’s on a nylon string guitar. He is quite clear about his abilities at playing something that resembles Flamenco. It’s worth watch...
Kenny Rankin Youtube Peaceful
The Kenny Rankin youtube video is from the seventies. While many other players were playing steel strings in the 70’s Kenny Rankin preferred to play nylon string instead, and realistically it suited his style and complemented his voice. THe...
Paco de Lucia youTube Flamenco Guitar
Flamenco Guitar and Paco de Lucia for most of us are one and the same. Paco and his guitar have been on the world stage for some years now. His no nonsense approach has set the benchmark for other players to work towards. Many people became aware...
Norman Blake youTube Flatpicking Guitar
This site is about Guitar Education, if you don’t know Norman Blake, his playing is worth exploring, that’s why I’ve posted about him. Norman Blake is a Bluegrass Folk Country legend. He is highly respected amongst guitar player...
Learning the Acoustic Guitar
Learning Acoustic Guitar can be a little easier than you think. I have writiten an article at my other Acoustic Guitar Blog Site. The article includes a couple of simple things that you vcan do to get yourself started. If you are new to this s...
Jazz Guitar Moving Bass Parts - Part 3
Jazz Guitar moving bass parts is the third guitar lesson in this series of tutorials. Although this chord fretting exercise includes the previous guitar part, it moves up the guitar neck to the E minor to A Seventh chords, when you play it it will so...
Paco De Lucia Larry Coryell John McLaughlin youTube
Larry Corryell, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia help take guitar improvisation to new heights in the seventies. Many people that are new to guitar and not aware of the standard that these players reached. Paco with his Flamenco background, McLaughl...
Jazz Guitar Moving Bass Parts - Part 2
Jazz guitar is more than just playing a few major 7 and minor 7 chords. These chords existed and can be found in many classical pieces and other music forms. I will not in this article attempt to define jazz guitar but I will continue on from wha...
John McLaughlin Shakti YouTube
John McLaughlin and Shakti came to the fore in the mid seventies, at the time they had John McLaughlin on a guitar with a scalloped fretboard, some drone strings and an Indian gentleman L Shankar on violin both playing at an awesome speed. John wa...
