Blues
Minor Blues Backing Track (B minor 90bpm)
Minor Blues Backing Track (B minor 90bpm)
Blues Guitar backing track in B minor at 90bpm. This Blues Track with the style of “The Trill is Gone” from BB King is perfect for practicing soloing in the key of Bm. Work on those new guitar scales, new lick ideas or create riffs of your own. This track and others I’m offering are perfect to use with my video lessons and tutorials on my site.
Practicing guitar with backing tracks is one of the best ways to get used to playing with other players in a band setting. You get used to playing with a groove, improvising and soloing, it can be great ear training, you learn to listen to what’s going on around you and you get used to playing…not just practicing!
Hope you enjoy my guitar backing tracks look for more coming regularly.
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Guitar Backing Track in A minor Rock Pop Style
Guitar Backing Track in A minor Rock Pop Style
Guitar backing track in A minor at 100bpm. This rock pop style jam track is perfect for practicing soloing in the key of Am. Work on those new guitar scales, new lick ideas or create riffs of your own. This track and others I’m offering are perfect to use with my video lessons and tutorials on my channel.
Practicing guitar with backing tracks is one of the best ways to get used to playing with other players in a band setting. You get used to playing with a groove, improvising and soloing, it can be great ear training, you learn to listen to what’s going on around you and you get used to playing…not just practicing!
Hope you enjoy my guitar backing tracks look for more coming regularly.
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Funk Blues Jam Track – Guitar Tutorial
Funk Blues Jam Track – Guitar Tutorial
Funk Blues Jam Track in D for funk and blues guitar practice! This funky blues backing track is in the key of D and in the style of funky blues guitar players like Freddie King and Albert King. It’s perfect for practicing those funk blues licks and solos over. So plug in and enjoy hours of fun jamming over the funk blues jam track you’ll find in this video.
A few suggestions for using this jam track:
(1) Just because this backing track uses a blues funk feel doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep it bluesy! The backing track is in the key of D, so use the classic blues guitar scales like D minor pentatonic and D blues scale licks and ideas. For some cool licks which go with this funk blues backing track try this lesson HERE.
(2) Lock in tight with the funk blues rhythm. Funk is a rhythmic style…so whatever you do don’t let your rhythm drag. So as you play over this funk blues jam track, keep your rhythms crisp, punchy and above all, funky!
(3) Leave space between phrases. This will help your licks and ideas stand out and give you a more structured sounding solo that will make sense to a listener.
Hope this helps you with your blues funk soloing…have fun!
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Guitar Backing Track Metal in Em
Guitar Backing Track Metal in Em
Guitar backing track metal in E minor. This heavy metal jam track in Em is perfect for practicing soloing in the key of Em. Work on those new guitar scales, new lick ideas or create riffs of your own. This track in a metal style as well as my other guitar backing tracks are perfect to use with my video lessons and tutorials on my channel.
Practicing guitar with backing tracks is one of the best ways to get used to playing with other players in a band setting. You get used to playing with a groove, improvising and soloing, it can be great ear training, you learn to listen to what’s going on around you and you get used to playing…not just practicing!
Hope you enjoy my guitar backing tracks look for more coming regularly.
Scale suggestions for this metal guitar backing track:
The guitar backing track (metal style) is in the key of E minor so try using scales like E minor pentatonic, E blues scale or E natural minor scale (also called E Aeolian mode). Try some open string scale shapes too, these can sound great in this style!
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Blues Rhythm Chops (Slick Rhythm Techniques You Can Use Right Now!)
Blues Rhythm Chops (Slick Rhythm Techniques You Can Use Right Now!)
Sick of those same old blues rhythm guitar shuffles and barre chords? Kick your blues rhythm chops up a notch with this blues rhythm lesson and discover how to use chord fragments, ninth chords and rhythm riffs in your rhythm guitar style.
Ex 1: Chord Fragments
Chord Fragments are fragments of larger chords and they are powerful blues rhythm guitar tools. See this example to learn how to use them straight away in your playing.
Ex 2: 9th Chords
9th chords can act as substitutes for Dominant 7 chords, so instead of playing A7 in your 12 bar blues, you could play A9 instead. This adds much more colour to the 12 bar blues (and makes you sound like a way slicker player!)
Ex 3: Blues Bassline Riffs
Why not ditch chords all together…and play a blues bassline riff instead! Here’s one example of a blues bassline riff you can use. Try out some riff variations of your own remember.
Have fun spicing up your blues rhythm chops with this lesson and see you next time!
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Guitar String Bending Problems (Are These Wrecking Your Solos?)
Guitar String Bending Problems (Are These Wrecking Your Solos?)
String bending problem 1: Poor Bending Hand Position
For good string bending technique place your thumb over the top of the neck . This gives you more control and stops you losing the string as you bend it. You also want to back up the bending finger with any available fingers for awesome string bending technique.
String bending problem 2: String Bends Not Ringing Clearly
A common string bending problem this one! Make sure to pin the string firmly into the guitar neck. Press it into the neck even as you bend. This will help you get big and clear bending sounds into your solos and licks.
String bending problem 3: Practice bending With Different Fingers
Instead of only bending strings with your 3rd finger, simply practice some of your favourite string bends and licks using your other fingers.
String bending problem 4: Fixing Out Of Tune String Bends
Use this simple exercise to quickly fix out of tune string bends in your playing. This simple bending exercise will help get your string bends in tune and sounding awesome and it can make a big difference to your string bending even after just a few minutes practice.
String bending problem 5: Muting String Bends and Fixing Noisy Bends
How can you get rid of string noise when you bend strings? Watch this part of the lesson to discover how to use string muting and damping technique to control your string bends.
So take action and fix your guitar string bending problems now with these tips. Use ’em and you’ll soon be rewarded with the sound of big, juicy, fat sounding string bends!
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Don’t Kill Your Picking Technique with These 5 Easy Mistakes!!
Don’t Kill Your Picking Technique with These 5 Easy Mistakes!
Don’t kill your guitar picking technique by making these 5 common picking mistakes! In this picking lesson we cover picking hand tips, picking hand position, holding the pick, alternate picking and more.
I’ll also show you 3 simple alternate picking technique exercises you can use to practice and develop your picking chops.
So jump in and give your picking technique a workout!
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Stevie Ray Vaughan Blues Licks
Stevie Ray Vaughan Blues Licks
In this lesson you’ll learn how to play two Stevie Ray Vaughan blues licks step by step. Both licks are using the E blues scale played up around the 12th fret and feature classic SRV style bends, double stops and more. Check out ‘Pride and Joy’ to hear lots more Stevie Ray Vaughan blues licks and tricks like you hear in this demo solo.
Remember it’s not just the notes and licks that gave Stevie his awesome style! You need to ‘dig in’ and play these licks with lots of attack to get them sounding authentic. This will help you capture the ‘high energy’ vibe so characteristic of the Stevie Ray Vaughan guitar style. Let’s get started…
0:30 Here’s a quick reminder of the scales used to play these SRV licks.
1:00 Here is the ‘Texas Pride’ solo study these licks are coming from. Listen to the solo to hear how these licks fit into it.
1:34 Here’s Stevie Ray Vaughan lick 1. It’s using a wicked double stop move from the sliding blues scale.
3:02 Stevie Ray Vaughan lick 2. It’s using similar SRV trademarks as lick 1.
4:15 Let’s give these licks some context now. Here’s how they fit into the Texas Pride solo.
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Learn Guitar Scales Fast
Want to learn guitar scales fast? Well …playing up and down them like most players do is not the way to do it! In this lesson you’ll discover 3 powerful and simple scale practice exercises to learn your scales fast…and more importantly be able to use them when you play.
Learn Guitar Scales Fast!
Imagine if you could learn the essential guitar scales fast…instead of spending hours playing them up and down. Well there are some ways that you can, but we’re not normally shown them. Instead we often play them round and round with the notes in the exact same order every time. Problem is you’re not going to use them like that when you solo and jam!
0:20 Just playing up and down doesn’t help you learn scales fast! It’s also got nothing to do with how we use them when we play. You need some different ways to practice themif you want to nail those guitar scales fast!
0:55 Scale exercise #1: The ‘Random Note Exercise’
1:25 Scale Exercise #2; The ‘One Note Per String Exercise’
1:58 Scale Exercise #3: The ‘Pivot Exercise’
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Blues Licks Lesson – Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King, Albert King Eric Clapton Licks You Need To Know…
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Blues Licks Lesson- 7 Blues Licks Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King, Albert King, Eric Clapton Style You Need to Know
In this blues licks lesson you’ll learn 7 blues licks you need to know from the playing of blues guitar legends like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, BB King, Eric Clapton and others. All these licks are played in the key of A and are using the A minor pentatonic scale. Let’s look at blues lick 1
0:46 Blues Lick 1. If there was ever a must know blues lick then this is probably it! It’s used by all the blues guitar greats like Eric Clapton, SRV, Albert King etc and is a powerful lick to begin your blues solos with.
2:06 Blues Lick 2. This lick is borrowed from Stevie Ray Vaughan and is a lick he loved to play. Listen to his album Texas Flood to here licks like this used a lot.
3:14 Blues Lick 3. Albert King is an influential blues player and this lick is the kind of thing he used to play in his blues solos. Check out the bending tips in this lick too…you’ll need them to get your bends sounding like Alberts!
4:54 Blues Lick 4. Eric Clapton’s playing with Cream inspired this next blues lick. It’s packed full of tasty blues bends and curls.
7:08 Blues Lick 5. This Stevie Ray Vaughan style lick uses the sliding blues scale shape. Definitely check out these bends and slides in this scale pattern. They’re incredibly useful, versatile, and can add a lot to your blues solos.
8:25 Blues Lick 6. A classic BB King style lick here making use of a tasty double stop move. This is adding the 6th into our pentatonic scale (7th fret B string) giving us a ‘sweeter’ sound characteristic of BB’s guitar style.
10: 12 Blues Lick 7. British blues legends Eric Clapton and Peter Green used licks like this in their landmark solos. Some tasty double stop slides here coming from the sliding blues scale plus a cool pre-bend move.. Experiment with these they can sound great in your blues solos.
12:08 Once you know these blues licks be sure to practice using them in your solos. Also move them into other keys to you can use them in any blues setting. Have fun!
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