Download or read book 50 More Guitar Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2016-03-20 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the fantastic response to the first book in this series, ’50 Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man’s Guitarist’, it gives me immense pleasure to bring you this second installment; 50 More Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man’s Guitarist. My hope is to again provide you with timely insight into all aspects of learning and playing guitar. These hacks are things I’ve learned from years of playing that should and will be passed on to those seeking insight, out-of-the-box thinking, and the deepening of their knowledge of the guitar whatever their current level may be. The information herein takes the form of mini-lessons, anecdotes, wisdom and knowledge, divine inspiration and friendly advice. It is my desire to help you on your journey to being the best guitarist you can possibly be.

Download or read book 50 Guitar Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advancing Guitarist faces many challenges on the instrument, yet it is one of the most exciting periods in a player's development. This eBook features hacks, mini-lessons, insights, tricks and tips to push you past your new-found comfort zone and make real progress on the instrument. You will reach many plateaus as you progress on guitar, and these are fantastic opportunities to do something different, and to learn something new while deepening the knowledge you've already acquired. This eBook provides solutions to many of the issues faced by guitarists on the intermediate plateau, those stuck in a rut, or those simply wishing to break into advanced territory on the instrument. I hope to be a facilitator on this journey, and help you get to where you want to be with your guitar playing. Here's what we'll be getting into in this 50 Guitar Hacks eBook:1. The Secret to Fast Playing that Everyone Overlooks2. How to Move Beyond Pentatonic Scales3. Do You Need a Mentor Rather than a Teacher?4. How to Get into Melodic Soloing5. How to Use the Other Four Minor Pentatonic Boxes6. Why Your Solos Still Sound like Scales and How to Turn It Around7. What's Your Specialty?8. When to Learn the Notes on the Neck9. How to Get the Gig10. How to Learn New Scales without Learning New Patterns11. How to Balance Your Pickups for a Sharper Sound12. Write This Down Before Every Practice Session13. How to Get Free Gear14. Buy Tons of Picks15. The 'Hendrix' Chord and When to Use It16. How to 'Johnny B. Goode' Any Scale17. Scale Fragments: Practice This to Increase Your Speed18. Repetition Is Only Half the Story19. Split the Fretboard20. Zone in to Improve Your Phrasing21. Take Advantage of Your Own Hindsight22. How to Spice Up Your Chord/Rhythm Playing23. How to Memorize New Material Faster24. The Hearing Lag25. Beyond the 'Hendrix' Chord26. The Reason You Find Chord Tone Soloing Hard27. The Real Meaning of 'Less is More'28. Stop Learning Guitar Solos29. Sweep Picking Made Easy 30. How to Play the Minor Pentatonic Scale Over Almost Anything 31. 4 Neglected Pentatonic Scales32. Are You Using Your Best Picking Technique?33. What Do I Use This for?34. How to Know What to Learn Next35. How to Make the Most of Backing Tracks36. How to Tap into an Infinite Supply of Riffs, Licks and Ideas37. Instant Jazz/Fusion Soloing with 9-Note Scales38. How to Take the Tedium Out of Learning Arpeggios39. Improve Your Phrasing with the Pivot Technique40. The Law of Overcompensation and Fretting Hand Strength41. The Best Books for Learning to Sight Read42. How to Find the Right Gear for You43. If You Use Tablature, You Must Do This44. The Dreaded, 'Now Practice This in All 12 Keys...'45. Is It Time to Forget Scales?46. More Than Repertoire47. Make Time for Noodling48. A Healthy Obsession You Should Have49. How to Play Over Changes without Getting Frustrated50. Are There Any Skeletons in Your Musical Closet?

Download or read book 50 Guitar Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man's Guitarist has just received an extensive update and now features more detailed explanations, plus new hacks, diagrams and insight. Guitar Hacks can be clever ways to do things on guitar, priceless nuggets of information, or new perspectives on vital concepts for learning and understanding guitar, out-of-the-box thinking and much more besides. These hacks are based on 20+ years of hindsight so that you can get to where you want to be with your playing quicker and more efficiently. whatever your current level, or provide an excellent reference for guitar teachers looking for lesson ideas that can be easily expanded upon.

Download or read book Guitar Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2017-04-16 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3NPS (three-note-per-string) scales, as used by legions of guitarists but popularized mainly by Joe Satriani, are one of the most efficient ways to navigate the fretboard and get your scales down IF you follow the guidelines in this book. As the name suggests, a 3NPS scale is any scale that contains three notes on each string, and as you'll see in this eBook, this makes for a very consistent way to map out scales on the guitar fretboard. What we’ve done here is revamped the 3NPS scale system and turned it into an incredibly effective means to learn a wide variety of scales all over the fretboard by streamlining the number of patterns, as well as the picking system. This is not a scale theory book, and contains no pentatonic scales. This is a quick and dirty (and very effective) method for learning 3NPS scales all over the fretboard; something to work on in the woodshed. It will improve your picking technique and speed. It does not require a great amount of thinking as you only need to learn two picking patterns, which is really one in two directions, and only three scale patterns instead of the usual seven per scale.

Download or read book Beyond Pentatonics written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lot of students ask me how they can take their improvisation skills to the next level and move beyond pentatonic scales and into modes and arpeggios. My response is to tell them not to abandon pentatonic scales in favor of modes and other soloing devices, but to use them as a springboard and a solid foundation from which to expand their harmonic awareness. If you play rock, blues and even jazz, you’ll be using pentatonic scales for the rest of your life, so there’s no need to discard them! In this book, we’ll be using the much-loved minor pentatonic scale as the basis for learning and having a quick way to access the modes of the major scale, as well as the basic seventh chord arpeggios. This means that when you go to improvise, you'll have a vast array of options with which to go beyond pentatonic soloing. Work through this book daily and I guarantee you a smooth and painless transition from pentatonics to incorporating modes and arpeggios into your playing.

Download or read book 25 Guitar Scale Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by Unlock the Guitar. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to scales and improvising, the guitar fretboard is a maze, and this is both good and bad… Well, instead of bad, let’s say it’s ‘challenging’ because like any maze it’s easy to get lost, familiar routes can often lead to dead-ends, and it can be overwhelming to find your way out. On the other hand, we have countless routes (possibilities) to choose from, all of which provide different creative opportunities; what I’m basically saying is that by learning one or two scale systems to ‘get through the maze’, we stop seeing (or even avoid) the many other ways there are to navigate the fretboard. This is where 25 Guitar Scale Hacks comes in. This book is about exploring the fretboard using those other routes to create motion, fluidity and bring the music out of any static pattern. Here, we dispense with the standard patterns such as 3NPS scales or the CAGED system in order to explore the many other patterns, nuances and hacks the guitar fretboard has to offer. Who is this book for? This book is for the intermediate to advancing students who really want to make their playing stand out from the crowd, feel stuck in a rut, or want to move away from rote pattern playing and predictable-sounding solos. 25 Guitar Scale Hacks looks at improvisation based on the guitar fretboard; in other words, we’re putting the guitar and all its nuances first, rather than working from generic patterns that are traditionally taught in scale and arpeggio books. The concept of 25 Guitar Scale Hacks then is a collection of mini-lessons or hacks for a deeper exploration of scales and how to make music with them. Feel free to work through the book in the order it’s written or choose the hacks that interest you the most.

Download or read book Guitar Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very first scale most guitarists learn when they begin to explore the world of improvisation is often the Minor Pentatonic Scale, usually it’s A Minor or E Minor form. While this scale has been the crux of much of rock and blues music for the best part of a century, in the modern era of guitar playing it deserves a more thorough exploration through new pentatonic concepts, ideas and insight. Over 10 in-depth lessons, this book will deepen your understanding of pentatonic scales while opening your eyes to a myriad of ways in which they can be used and exploited to build up an arsenal of improvisational tools based on these five-note scales. We’ll also cover the difficult transition from pentatonics to modes through a new method that allows you to retain your pentatonic prowess by intertwining it with the modes instead of abandoning pentatonic scales in favor of other more cumbersome scale systems. In truth, most guitarists have barely scratched the surface when it comes to pentatonic scales, believing the major and minor pentatonic scales to be the end of the story when in fact, it’s just the beginning. So, if you know those five minor/major pentatonic boxes, and want to see how much farther this can go, this book is for you.

Download or read book The 50 Greatest Guitar Books written by Shawn Persinger and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the "What," "How," and "Why," master guitarist and teacher Shawn Persinger shows you how to get the most out of the best guitar books. You'll find insightful commentaries and more than 100 individually tailored guitar lessons - in all styles - that will provide beginner, intermediate, and advanced players with a lifetime of knowledge, insight, and inspiration.Unlike any other guitar method, The 50 Greatest Guitar Books is part guitar instruction, part music appreciation, and part literary criticism. Persinger delivers as much practical musical content as he does analysis and educated insight.Includes contribution from legendary educators and players: Rik Emmett, Henry Kaiser, Steve Kaufman, Wolf Marshall, Tim Sparks, and many more.More than 100 stylized guitar lessons: Chord Voicings, Arpeggios, Two-Handed Tapping, Fingerpicking, Slide Guitar, Walking Bass Lines, Improvisation, and much more.Featuring all styles: Blues, Classical, Funk, Metal, Rock, Jazz, World, Ragtime, Flamenco, Bluegrass, Gypsy Jazz, Pop, Latin, Fingerpicking, Country, Fusion, and more.

Download or read book 50 Essential Guitar Lessons written by Ken Parille and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Educational). This book/CD pack contains 50 must-know lessons for all guitarists, beginner to pro. Covers topics including: arpeggios, chords voicings, exotic scales, fills, fingerpicking, harmony and theory, pentatonic scales, soloing and so much more!

Download or read book Solo Guitar Playing written by Frederick M. Noad and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1976 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of the popular classical guitar method features instruction, graded exercises, practice studies, and a survey of the guitar repertoire. Volume Two develops technique, sightreading, and includes an advanced repertoire of thirty works.

Download or read book Simple Chord Tone Soloing System written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chord tone soloing and soloing over changes on guitar is a complex area which can be approached in many ways, and where even a cursory search for online resources is likely to leave you with more questions than answers. It’s particularly difficult on guitar because guitarists tend to arrive at this point with varying amounts of knowledge and gaps in their playing, whereas other instrumentalists approach soloing over changes in a more uniform way. While it’s true that everyone learns differently, I believe that a solid approach to soloing over changes requires a system that is a) not based on patterns, b) develops the ability to locate notes on the neck either by interval or by the name of the note, and c) develops the player’s ear to the point where he/she is able to fully express themselves and truly improvise on their instrument as oppose to a formulaic, calculated and somewhat cold approach to something that should be, insofar as is possible, spontaneously created in the moment; and this is what I hope to achieve with this eBook.

Download or read book Hacking the CAGED System written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hacking the CAGED System series was inspired by my own,and other guitarist’s frustrations with the infamous CAGED System for learning guitar. It all started back in Music College in the early 2000s, at the ACM in Guildford (UK) to be precise, where we were handed, by none other than Guthrie Govan, an inch-thick binder containing all manner of shapes and patterns for the CAGED system, including chords and arpeggios. I duly slaved over the book while burning the midnight oil for an entire semester and while my technique improved no end, I just couldn’t turn those patterns into music,or connect them to what I was learning in music theory class.Fast forward to 2016, and with the benefit of hindsight from more than 20 years of playing, I’ve been able to look at the CAGED system from a different perspective, and one that will hopefully make it a useful system for anyone wishing to learn it. The CAGED system has many flaws, but these can be hacked and rectified to turn it into a powerful system for understanding how the guitar fretboard works, leading to a versatile, and above all, functional knowledge of chords, arpeggios, scales and modes, and key signatures. What’s in Book 1? Book 1 teaches you the basic major scale forms, shows you where to find the basic diatonic chords as well as seventh chords.We then venture into intervals which are the key to making your solos sound like you know what you’re doing. Next we bring out the arpeggios,and finally the modes. Everything is tied together using key signatures as a framework to build up a practical knowledge of chords, scales,arpeggios and modes on the guitar.

Download or read book From Scales to Solos written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you ask anyone who's been playing guitar for a while how to turn scales into solos, you'll likely get a variety of answers. They'll tell you to learn licks, work on your arpeggios, even learn your favorite players' solos note for note. While this is all good advice, I've had some particularly stubborn students that wanted to go beyond that; they wanted to be able to improvise using any scale up and down the fretboard, but at the same time break free from those deeply-ingrained scalar lines and patterns. It was then that I suggested the zonal approach to improvisation; by working in reduced areas of the neck with specifically designed patterns, they were soon able to create melodic, flowing lines that didn't sound at all like scales--they sounded like real music! This is the approach you'll find in this book. We dissect 15 of the most common scales, beyond the pentatonics, and break them down into zones which can be practiced either by scale, or for any particular scale across the fretboard. The objective of this book then is to provide a structured reference to make the transition from playing scales to playing, improvising and creating musical lines when soloing. It’s aimed at the intermediate to advanced guitarist looking to be able to improvise confidently and freely on the instrument in a wide variety of styles. It is also aimed at guitarists that want to move beyond rote pentatonic/blues soloing and incorporate other scales and modes into their playing, as well as building up a vocabulary to solo fluently over chord changes.

Download or read book Getting Great Guitar Sounds written by Michael Ross and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Getting Great Guitar Sounds has helped thousands of guitarists get a basic handle on shaping their sound. This second edition had been expanded to cover modern multi-effectors, amp simulators, and advanced effect rigs in the same easy-to-understand language. To make getting started even simpler, Ross now lists his favorite effects and tells why they will provide most of the sounds guitarists will need.

Download or read book Guitar Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’ll get straight to the point; I wrote this book as a quick and dirty method for learning a ton of chords. For most guitarists there is nothing more tedious than sitting down to learn a bunch of chords from a dry chord book, only to find that after hours of going through them, very few of them actually stick. A good knowledge of chords will make you a far more rounded player, and allow you to be much more versatile in many playing situations. In truth, you’re more likely to be asked to come up with a rhythm part than a scorching lead break, and if you are you’ll need to know what chords you’re attempting to wail over anyway. I won’t go into chord theory here, there are plenty of other books that do that very well. What I’ll deal with here is how to memorize chords so that you can start, or expand, your chord vocabulary; what’s more you’ll develop a way to access chords quickly as if you need to hunt and peck for them, they’re pretty much useless. The idea of this method is to build up a vocabulary of chords by organizing them in a memorable way. New chords are more likely to stick in your brain if they’re connected or related to chords you already know. We'll combine this idea with another simple yet powerful memory technique to make those chords really stick in your head, and be available on demand. The book takes on the form of a private lesson, or conversation with the author where he seamlessly weaves together chord shapes and helps you actually remember them. There’s no heavy theory work here, just a simply method to learn and remember chords on guitar quickly and easily.

Download or read book The Guitar Practice Workbook written by James Shipway and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate 'multi purpose' practice workbook for guitarists of all levels! Featuring powerful practice hacks, important scales and chord shapes PLUS over 50 pages of blank tab, fretboard diagrams and chord boxes for recording your own killer licks, exercises and song ideas! Learn about topics such as: How to easily learn a new chord shape How to practice a new scale (so you know it inside out!) Powerful practice principles for speedier progress Designing your own practice routine How to speed up any lick 5 practice tools you must have Reference charts for essential open chords, barre chords, scale shapes ... and more! So wherever you happen to be on your guitar playing journey right now, you're going to find this workbook a valuable aid to your development as a guitarist!

Download or read book Making Poor Man s Guitars written by Shane Speal and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the authentic stories of American DIY music with step-by-step projects, photo studies of antique instruments, interviews with music legends, and historical accounts. Shane Speal, the “King of the Cigar Box Guitar,” shows how anyone can build amazing musical instruments from found items.