An Enlightened Guitar Lesson for Guitar Song Writers and Composers Part 2

Circle of Guitar Player Influence

It’s time to take the Circle of Guitar Influence much further. In the first part of this exercise we looked at tracing your favourite guitar player’s influences back one generation. Now we will go much deeper with this exercise and gain some additional tools for song writing.

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Guitar Technique Lesson: How to Perform Hammer-ons and Pull-offs

The Hammer-on

Have you ever wanted to play those spine-tingling lines that sound super-smooth and oh-so fluid?

The key to playing those super-smooth, spine-tingling passages is to master hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Today we will look at how to perform hammer-ons and pull-offs and a great foundation hammer-on and pull-off exercise.

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How to Add Variety to Your Guitar Solos with a Cool Japanese Minor Pentatonic Scale Part 2

A Hirajoshi in groups of 4

Today we look at additional ways to practice the Hirajoshi scale, a chord vamp that you can use to practice soloing with this scale, and we will look at creating your own guitar solo with this scale.

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