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Here I show you the most demanding obstacle on your way from a total guitar beginner to a solid intermediate guitar player. It's the barre chord. I show you all tricks I know to overcome this obstacle in a reasonable timeframe and it has to be fun too. Here you can download the files associated to this backing track _

Very well explained, it's fun to practice and play with the backing tracks. Thank you.

Here I show you the theme and the chords of the song " Smile " by Charlie Chaplin. At the end I give some tips for the improvisation. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

As mentioned in the tutorial - on the first part with 5 bars of Fmaj - I do the movement from F to Fmaj7 to F6 with arpeggio's - on the Abdim I would do a diminished arpeggio. On G-7 you use dorian, D7 phrygian nat. 3 on Bb-7 Eb7 we change the key for 2 bars to Ab but you treat those 2 chords as a II V - I will talk about this in future tutorials. When you do an analyis for the improvisation you always search for the II V progressions and therefore you have licks which you use for II V progressions. We have a 2nd one at the end of the tune with Ab-7 Db7 - here another key change to Gb. To make it easier - follow the melody and play around the melody in your improv. and when those " out of key " moments come just follow the melody as well.