Bending The Blues, Blues You Can Use for any blues jam. Focusing on the bending of the strings in order to get a bluesy sound. This particular video was originally made as one of 6 for a book that is still sold on Amazon: Guitar Improvisation In 7 Minutes https://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Improvisation-Minutes-Improvise-Sound-ebook/dp/B0075ZWP10 The book is not all about the blues but about Improvisation and how to get there. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-l90M-GZ50

Guitar Riffs Sliders By Gene Petty #Shorts THis one shows you an easy practice to get started on Sliders. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kpNJKaS8U4

How To Play A Power Chord On Acoustic Guitar The same info here applies to electric guitars as well. It is more about power than it is a chord. It is not a triad but an Interval. Up until the power chord, a triad was the minimal chord having the composition of three notes. Before the power chord, playing the two notes A and E or E and B were considered Intervals of a perfect 5th. Since the development of the electric guitar and effects, the two note interval of a fifth on the lower, thicker strings demonstrated a loud fullness such that it resembled a full chord. But when we take it down a notch and perform the power chord on acoustic guitar it makes another statement. The acoustically played power chord does not need to be a driving force. It can stand alone as its own medium while conveying the intricacies that the acoustic guitar has to offer. The application is the same as that of the electric guitar. The first finger is placed on the lower note and the third finger is placed two frets higher on the adjacent string. Both strings are picked as if they were one. Well, that’s how they are played on electric. But if on acoustic you feel you want to put a little gap between the two notes, you can pick them, one slightly after the other and it creates a marvelous acoustic effect. The power chord on acoustic should be named the “No Third” chord. I know they use the “A5”, “C5” but that tends to confuse. How about “Ax3” used for acoustic purposes only. That would be an “A chord without the 3rd” which leaves the root and the fifth. Whatever you call it, on acoustic it has a slightly different flavor than electric. Try the perfect Fifth on your acoustic with a lighter touch. Leave the “power” out of the power chord. Replace it with finesse. Turn the wattage concept off, give it a new light. Try it with different variants of volume. Instead of slamming the hammer down at full volume, start at pp volume and build to a mf. Then switch strings and frets and try different keys. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-_hhqdxtms

How To Read Music For Guitar Does Not Start With Guitar Sheet Music 1. Don't begin learning how to read with guitarist's sheet music; it will just confuse you. a. Learning how to read guitar music that is made for guitar and includes tabs and chord diagrams has gone through an evolution since the 1970's. Instead of just writing out melody lyrics and chords, tabs were bought into play so that guitarists didn't have to read notes anymore. Tabs have been around for centuries, but they were not necessary in the jazz era or the early rock era; the written music contained melody and chord diagrams so the guitarist could roughly strum the key tones and sing along. The public fascination with guitar grew so much that by the end of the 70's guitar tabs were becoming the general rule for any musical sheets written for guitar. b. Guitar Tabs provide a great service. Tabs also created a reading crutch for guitar players. Most beginner guitar players could learn a tab. But to look at all that ink on the 5 lines above the tab would be out of the question. c. The working hypothesis here is that every guitarist should learn the basics of reading musical notes even before they learn tablature. The Solution Start learning to read guitar notes on the musical staff by learning Intervals Intervals are the distance between notes. An interval exists between any two notes. The strings on a guitar are tuned in 4ths. The interval is called a perfect 4th. The G and B strings on guitar create a Major 3rd. Intervals will help you recognize distance on the musical staff as well as the guitar. You can get Gene’s intervals Videos Intro - Intervals https://youtu.be/AHGeOCrxro4 Major and Minor 2nds https://youtu.be/4dDYlrDiMM0 Major and Minor 3ds https://youtu.be/9LiNVT07JKo Perfect 4ths and 5ths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZFInk2Ifbk Major and Minor 6ths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHfc5iqBJgY Major and Minor 7ths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3NaK1TSWbw Octaves and Unisons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Cti_eiDTg Read Gene's Kindle books How To Read Music For Guitar - Intervals https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DXA65BW How To Read Music For Guitar – Scales https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DXOT0RY How To Read Music For Guitar – Rhythm https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E3LDQ1C Guitar Improvisation In 7 Minutes https://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Improvisation-Minutes-Improvise-Sound-ebook/dp/B0075ZWP10 Guitar Chords Methodology (Learn Guitar Chords Through Exercises) https://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Chords-Methodology-Through-Exercises-ebook/dp/B00A86Y6VK Guitar Instruction For The Not So Serious Guitar Player (Learning Guitar Without Learning To Read Notes Or Formal Tabs) https://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Ins ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHbJ0SdGirg