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au travail, let's work, arbeit
Danke - Merci

great moment yesterday thanks again making guitar more easy
 

Cold Shot ( SRV ) - Guitar Lesson
Here you can learn how to play the song Cold Shot by Stevie Ray Vaughan. It's basically a normal blues in the key of Ab. Since SRV tuned down his guitar to Eb he plays the tune in the 5th fret in the original. I show a version in the 4th fret on a normal tuned guitar. The solo is pretty hard since you need to keep the rhythm going since the band contains only drum, bass and guitar.
 

Free Downloads for all members
I will post some ideas, licks, tabs, audio files or whatever - like snipplets from Dr Pink in the HPCrazy Students Club and those downloads will be free for all members. I really want to give the free members a benefit too, to join here in order to grow the community here.
 

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Here you can learn all you need to learn in the first 3 – 6 months of your journey when you are starting the guitar. From my experience as a guitar tutor and guitar instructor since 1999 it always turned to be those topics I am talking about here. The threshold to go further is the barréchord. That one is the tricky part which can make the first steps harder and longer time to get stuck in the beginners phase. The good news is with regular practicing you can really make it in 3 months. I experienced this myself when I started the guitar at the age of 20. So i pretty much remember those steps. Be patient and just practice regular and suddely those things I am showing here work out for you and you are ready to get to the next level of guitarplaying.

The following chapters are included in ths tutorial :

Technical Introduction 0:07
Basic Chords 4:49
Barréchord 21:51

First Steps Lead Guitar 28:44
The Pentatonics 33:05
Improvising in Major and Minor Tunes 37:24

Final Notes 42:22   guitar beginners Am.mp3   guitar beginners A.mp3   Starting with Guitar.pdf   Starting with Guitar.gp

Here you can learn an entire solo which can be played to " Long Train Running " by the Doobie Brothers. It's very simple but still sounds great. 
Licks - Long Train Running.pdf
long train trunning.mp3

Here you can learn the main guitar parts of the Roadhouse Blues by the Doors as played by Robby Krieger. 
Roadhouse Blues.pdf
roadhouse blues.mp3

Here you can learn the guitar part of the blue " Hoochie Coochie Man " by Muddy Waters. There are 2 versions - one live in G and the studio version in A. I have taken the live version as reference. 
Hoochie Coochie Man.pdf

Here you can learn the main guitar parts of Joan Jett's - I Love Rock N Roll. There are 2 guitars in the original but I made something which works for only one guitar. 
I Love Rock N Roll.pdf
i love rocknroll.mp3

Here you can learn everything about the famous jazz standard " Autumn Leaves " as a smooth jazz version.
The tutorial is devided into the following chapters :
Introduction 0:07
Chords 3:42
Scales 10:29
Melody 20:03
Easy Improvisation 27:52
Advanced Improvisation 35:57

The chords which I used are displayed here :
C-7 / F7 / Bbmaj7 / Ebmaj7 A-7b5 / D7#9 / G-7 / G-7
C-7 / F7 / Bbmaj7 / Ebmaj7 A-7b5 / D7#9 / G-7 / G-7
A-7b5 / D7#9 / G-7 / G-7 C-7 / F7 / Bbmaj7 / Ebmaj7
A-7b5 / D7#9 / G-7 C7/ F-7 Bb7 Eb7 / D7#9 / G-7 / G-7
The modes used are :
G-7 - aeolian
C-7 - dorian
F7 - mixolydian
Bbmaj7 - ionian
Ebmaj7 - lydian
A-7b5 - locrian
D7#9 – phrygian nat. 3
G-7 - dorian
C7 - mixolydian
F-7 - dorian
autumne leaves smooth jazz.mp3

Merci beaucoup ?

Here you can learn the chords, the melody and some improvisation tricks of the song on Broadway by George Benson. George Benson used to be a great jazz guitarists and performer and one of his signature songs was On Broadway. It is basically a blues which works with a simple riff and that one I am showing you in the tutorial. The Melody comes around with the singing of George Benson but I show an instrumental version of it here. Therefore I took the simple part of it and did not go too much with the little variations he did in his singing. The improvisation work like a blues and I am showing you a few simple tricks how can work in a jazzy way over these chords. In the original song it transposed each chorus one half step up till the guitar solo comes.
On Broadway ( George Benson ).pdf
On Broadway ( George Benson ).gp
george benson _ on broadway.mp3