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Some ideas to play bootle neck guitar in the style of Ry Cooder with a Drop - D tuning.

In Peace ( Cinematic Spanish Guitar Waltz ) The waltz is the musical expression of eternity. The music moves all around in circles. So this original of mine is an expression of a meditativ spanish guitar waltz. This was the first cinematic composition I have done since quit a while and I am really happy with the result. To give the nylon guitar this dreamy and expressiv touch I often work with a high quality cathedral reverb and some reverse delay set on the beat on the tune. If you want to give it a try yourself you find the tutorial about this song and the original backing track can be downloaded as well :

Here you can learn the theme, the chords and the improvisation of the jazz standard " Sunny " such as played by Pat Martino. The " Theme " and " Chords " section is the same for everybody but on the improvisation I have made 2 sections. A " Beginners " and an " Expert " section. Even if you are an expert it makes sense to check out the beginners section and opposite because you will find some usful imformation on both. In the expert section I have made an analysis on the modes which can be used for this chord progression : A-7 / G-7 C7 / Fmaj7 / B-7b5 E7#9 A-7 / G-7 C7 / Fmaj7 / B-7b5 E7#9 A-7 / C7 / Fmaj7 / Bb7 B-7b5 / E7#9 / A-7 / E7#9 The modes which are used Beginners + Expert – A blues scale over the entire track Expert : A-7 : Aeolian G-7 : Dorian C7 : Mixolydian Fmaj 7 : Lydian ( or Ionian ) B-7b5 : Locrian E7#9 : Phrygian Nat. 3 Bb7 : Lydian b7

I was working on a new tutorial and I did a first take recording on this wonderful original minor blues of mine. It's a bit in the Gary Moore style. First take often catches the magic of a moment. Perfection comes through the perfect moment.... Here you can learn this song :

Some important tips and tricks which make you sound like a real pro rock guitar player. The stuff is easy but still it isn't. The backing track is added at the end of the video.

This is now my latest CD " Spanish Guitar Improvisation " I have collected different recordings I did on the spanish guitar to one CD because I want to highlight this kind of guitar playing in my musical expression more. My most important guitar teacher Juan Martinez at music university always told me that I should focus on spanish guitar because he thought my musical expression is really natural and great. ( His words not mine ) and in fact the recording " Flamenco Guitar " on this CD which is an older recording broke all my records in download and streaming stores and also on soundcloud. I think it made like over 500K streams in total. Beside this track there are some track on this CD which I recorded but never released. I hope you will enjoy it. Here you can listen or download the CD in the service of your choice : https://orcd.co/gomjznb

I was jamming a bit in the sudio today and thought I give it a shot and just record since I loved to jam to this track here. But for once it's not a track of mine - see below. You can give it a try yourself. It's in D minor and you best play the D aeolian scale to this track.

Compose A Guitar Song - Chapter 2 ( Blues Rock ) In this tutorial I talk about how to create a great blues rock guitar song with just one chord and now to work with polarities in composing with sounds and playing intensity. Compose A Guitar Song - Chapter 2 ( Blues Rock ).pdf Compose A Guitar Song - Chapter 2 ( Blues Rock ).gp compose a guitar song - blues rock.mp3

In this first chapter of the tutorial how to compose a guitar song I first introduce myself as a composer and then start to create a simple song with just 2 chords. The song which I am talking about is very simple, just a vamp D / G - in the tutorial I give some ideas how to develop your ideas with just these 2 chords by splitting it up and by using the technique of voice leading. This is a very useful technique which professional composers use to make a song and an arrangment sound great. This is the first chapter where I show you how to compose a guitar song - let me know what you think to see how far we can go here with these new tutorials. Compose a guitar song - Chapter 1.pdf Compose a guitar song - Chapter 1.gp composing chapter 1.mp3