Just dropped my Germany tour dates! #adamrafferty #shorts
Check the dates where I'll be strumming and jamming this season. Can't wait to share my tunes with all of you. Which city am I seeing you in? Let me know below! ?
Hey! I hope you dig this short video of "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FFXbgeT-FA
Ready for a soul-soothing experience? Press play, and you might just find yourself replaying this gem over and over - 'Imagine" fingerstyle version.
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In this guitar lesson I will show you how to play a solo over chord changes.
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(After publishing the video, as student discovered a small tablature error in the last 2 notes of the "jazz lick." Please download, or re-download the corrected PDF to ensure you have the lick exactly as I played it.)
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When I play jazz lines, many students ask me "what SCALE is that?"
And I say "It's not a scale or a mode!"
Scales and modes are NOT the solution for soloing on fast chord changes, this is a HUGE misunderstanding.
The solution is to be aware of HARMONIC TONES (chord tones) and NON-HARMONIC TONES (notes outside the chord.)
Just watch this lesson, and I'll also teach you a real "jazz lick" using these tools.
Timestamps:
00:57 Grab the Free PDF!
01:22 Students asked about modes
02:17 D minor triad pasted on the neck
03:31 Non-Harmonic Tones
05:09 Tool #1: Neighbor Tones
07:01 Tool #2: Passing Tones
08:44 Tool # 3: Changing Tones
11:20 The Jazz Lick!
Enjoy & grab the free PDF file for this lesson HERE
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A solo version of one of my favorite Michael Jackson Tunes! It seemed like a cool idea due to the clearly separate bassline and melody! Enjoy!!!
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Here's my fingerstyle guitar version of the Norah Jones classic - "Don't Know Why."
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Tuning is standard tuning
E A D G B E
Capo 1st Fret
Here's a fun Norah Jones story for you....
Back in my days as a New York jazz guitar guy around 2000-2001, I did a gig for about 30 people in a cafe on the corner of Bleecker & McDougal street with a singer and a jazz trio.
The singer leading the gig said to me and the band "do you mind if my friend Norah sits in?"
"Sure no problem" I said...and after hearing her I thought wow, this little singer sings so bluesy...so I asked her the following:
"Hey, would you be available if I have a gig and need a singer?"
"Absolutely!" she replied and gave me her phone number.
About a year later, "Don't Know Why" came out - and I was like "wait - that's the same Norah? Holy S--t!!!!"
Life is crazy, huh?
That's my Norah story...and I hope you enjoy the music. :-)
Please leave a comment below and let me know what you think!
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Adam
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In this lesson, I'll show you how to play some Bach style arpeggios on the guitar.
These arpeggios are taken directly from the "Courante" of his 3rd Cello Suite. I bet that you will encounter some new arpeggio shapes that will challenge you.
This is awesome study material especially for fingerstyle, blues and rock players.
You'll feed your technique, ears and your musical mind.
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Timestamps:
0:00 The Bach Arpeggio Lick - Fast Tempo
0:42 Grab the FREE PDF!
1:49 Bach Will Challenge You!
2:35 Let's Play the First 7 Notes
3:38 Thumb and Index - Right Hand Technique
7:00 Let's Play the First 4 Measures
8:03 Let's Play the First 8 Measures
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Read this story called "The Day I Pooped My Pants" as you listen :-)
What's the connection between that and the music of J.S. Bach? Well, I'm glad you asked!
This story is about my experience at age 15 - as I attempted to perform this same Bach piece for the first time (the Courante from the 3rd Cello Suite) without having practiced it enough! Oh yeah, you know where this is going!!!
Boy did this piece teach me a lot about preparing enough for performance.
FYI - this story excerpt is from my book "The Inner Game of Fingerstyle Guitar" which I bet you'd love.
It's available on Amazon as a paperback and Kindle E-Book
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It was a sunny springtime Saturday in New York City, 1986. For all the students at our little music school, myself included, it was a very big day.
Little did I know that I’d always remember this day as “The Day I Pooped My Pants.”
At that time, I was fifteen years old and deemed to be one of the promising, young, classical guitar students who was destined for music college.
Ten days prior, I had just started learning a piece by Bach (the “Courante” from the Third Cello Suite, in case you are curious) and figured “What the heck. I’ll give it a go on stage!”
Mind you, ten days is nowhere near enough prep time for a classical piece. “What could possibly go wrong?” I thought.
I warmed up in a practice room beforehand, and everything sounded pretty good. I was ready.
When the time came and I was called to the stage, I went up, sat down, took a deep breath, and started to play.
But suddenly, it didn’t feel like the practice room. People were looking at me, the guitar felt weird, lights were shining in my eyes, and it was hard to think. Uh-oh!
And then the first uncontrollable thought came: “Hey, I played this just a few minutes ago. What’s happening to me?” Reptile-brain fight-or-flight mode started kicking in... my heartbeat sped up, and my hands shook involuntarily. I was going off the rails.
Then my mind went completely blank after the first few bars. For the life of me, I could not remember what to play even though I’d played it perfectly in the practice room fifteen minutes before.
An extremely thick and uncomfortable silence descended upon the room. I made two more futile attempts to start over only to have the same train wreck happen.
I saw parents hiding their eyes with their hands and burying their heads, writhing in the shame I was experiencing.
It was as if I’d pooped my pants, for all to see.
The cringe-worthiness and self-loathing got deeper and deeper with every second. The skin on my face was burning hot.
I was then instructed to play a different piece...something I’d already played a thousand times - by the school direct
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ixtSglPZI8
An uptempo fingerstyle walking bass version of the famous George Gershwin classic, with a surprise
thrown in at the end. (Newer Version of Video - Better Sound)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiDHyiQyGWI
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When I tell people in a small European village that I live in New York they say "WOW! Why are you in our little place?"
Because that's where the gig is on that day :-)
0:07 BQE (a.k.a the Brooklyn Queens Expressway )
0:19 In the hot sticky van with Jeff
1:05 Cemetery from the film "The Godfather"
1:10 Manhattan skyline
1:13 Kosciuszko Bridge
1:21 Downtown Brooklyn
1:35 Near the Gowanus Canal
1:57 4th avenue
2:12 My shipper - "Undisclosed location" in Brooklyn
3:06 BQE back to Queens
3:20 Back home in Jackson Heights
Well, I am not in NYC that often these days, but I wanted to show you the sights of Brooklyn and the B.Q.E. on a really hot sticky day so you could feel the "New York Vibe" a little.
Maybe when you see where I grew up...(NYC) you'll know why I play "Funky Fingerstyle Guitar"....it ain't Nashville! :-)
My buddy Jefferson Thomas and I drove down past the graveyard from the last funeral scene in the classic film "The Godfather", which you'll see, as well as the Manhattan skyline.
As well, you'll once again meet the lovely and helpful folks who ship my DVDs, CDs, and books all over the world - so if you have ordered something from me, this is where it was packaged & mailed from.
Thanks again for your support!
Email me anytime,
Adam
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