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Here I show you some tips and tricks to make a cool jam over Eric Claptons acoustic version of " Layla ". Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Acoustic Blues Guitar Solo Performance Tutorial In this tutorial I talked about how to play a great acoustic blues guitar solo performance. Think about the blues guitar player in the streets of New Orleans or a similar scene where you just sit there with your acoustic steel-string guitar and you want to play blues without any band. That's what this tutorial is about. This tutorial is divided in three parts, first I show an easy theme which is played in the key of A, then I play a simple blues guitar rhythm guitar and show you how to improvise by using the a minor pentatonic and the simple chords which I showed you and at the end I going to give some instructions how you really put things together correctly. Here you find the standard blues form which is very important to know by heart : A / A / A / A D / D / A / A E / D / A / E Pay really closed attention of my final notes at the end about timing, rhythm and form. Acoustic Blues Guitar Solo Performance.pdf Acoustic Blues Guitar Solo Performance.gp

Here I show you a cool blues guitar riff on the acoustic steelstring guitar. Beside that I show you a simple bluesy melody and at the end of the tutorial I give you some tips on how to sound more sophisticated with " let ring " guitar licks. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Here I show you a wonderful set of beautiful acoustic guitar chords in the key of C. Beside that I give you some tips on how to tell a story with your guitar and your guitar playing. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

My acoustic guitar instrumental for some peace in the world. As you can see this song represents the color blue in ways of open mind, peace and open skies. The key of the song is G which is like in most cases the color " blue ". If you want to try this song yourself go here :

Here you find a wonderful selection of chords in the key of G which are using a proper voice leading technique and some wonderful openstring settings. Makes your chords in the key of G sound fresh and beautiful. Here you find the files associated to this tutorial :

Here I show you a few beautiful acoustic guitar chords in the key of Am by using open string chords. At the end of the tutorial I give you some short ideas for a melodic solo. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

The first song of my new series " Beautiful Acoustic Guitar " - I hope you enjoy it and come back for more which will come in the future. If you want to learn this song check this tutorial here :

Here I teach you some beautiful acoustic guitar chords in the key of Dm. They work great on an acoustic steel string guitar but also on any other guitar. The key to beautiful acoustic guitar chords is voice leading and open strings. I will talk about both topics here. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

One Horse Town ( Blackberry Smoke ) - Basic Strumming Guitar Lesson Here I will show you how to play the song " One Horse Town " by Blackberry Smoke on the acoustic guitar. On the original recording you hear more than one guitar but I am showing you a version which works for only one guitar. Beside showing you the chords of the song I make a quick review of acoustic guitar strumming techniques which you can use for any strumming guitar solo setting. You can download the full tabs here :

Compose A Guitar Song - Chapter 3 ( Acoustic Guitar ) In this tutorial I talk about how to create a great acoustic mid tempo guitar song with just 3 chords. These are Am, G and F. I show you how to build up the dramaturgy of your playing with those 3 chords and how to add a 2nd and a 3rd guitar to more and more build up your acoustic guitar song. I am a professional composer who worked for Swiss National Television, had many placements in international TV stations with my music, recorded more then 60 CD's, scored movies and cooperate clips and last but not least had placemnts in the ABC shows Dr. House, Ugly Betty and Orange Is The New Black. In these tutorials I will show you how you can compose musie on guitar, how to work with guitar sounds, with drums, with software or in one sentence to be a creative composer on guitar. I will do a full series from chapter one till ... lets see how far us that journey takes. Compose a Guitar Song - Chapter 3 ( Acoustic ).pdf Compose a Guitar Song - Chapter 3 ( Acoustic ).gp compose a guitar song - acoustic guitar.mp3

Here you can listen to a meditativ acoustic guitar song of mine. It's is quite easy to play - at least when it comes to the raw form and chords of it. Those one's I have written down for you as tabs. Check them out and then listen how I played with those chords. I always work on songs that way. I have a raw form upon that one I start to improvise. Blue Meditative Acoustic Guitar.pdf Blue Meditative Acoustic Guitar.gp