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In this Guitar Lick of the Day series you'll learn how to play in the style of '60s funk & soul legends James Brown, The Meters, Booker T & the MGs and Sly & The Family Stone. One key element you'll develop is a strong sense of rhythm by incorporating syncopated strumming patterns while playing a variety of Dom 7 and Dom 9 chords and using various guitar licks. This is an excellent lesson series for any guitarist looking to enhance their rhythm guitar chops.
About '60s Funk & Soul:
"Funk" originated in the mid '60s when James Brown first introduced "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag." This infectious sound quickly caught the attention of the world and landed Mr. Brown the title of "The Godfather of Funk & Soul." The funk sound featured tight syncopated bass and drum back beats with "scratch" guitar rhythms playing over the groove. Simultaneously bands like Booker T & the
MG's were pioneering new sounds with their unique version of soul & rock 'n roll.
20 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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In the 1960s artists like James Brown, the Meters and Sly and the Family Stone fused their Blues, R & B and Rock 'n Roll influences into what was later labeled as "funk." These artists made a profound impacted on the music industry and influenced a whole new generation of musicians who strived to develop their own unique style of funk. Bands like Parliament/Funkadelic, Brothers Johnson, Average White Band, Tower of Power, Ohio Players and many others burst onto the music scene driven by a new dance craze sweeping the world called "disco." Some of these bands rode the disco wave to success while others continued on a path to develop their own sound.
The early funk sound featured tight syncopated bass and drum back beats with "scratch" guitar rhythms playing over the groove, but the 1970s ushered in a new variation to this sound featuring more rock guitar licks influenced by players like Jimi Hendrix and the emergence of "slap" bass.
18 Licks, 5 Interactive Lessons
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In this lesson series you'll learn various acoustic strumming and picking patterns which synchronize to chord progressions and lick patterns. Intermediate & above players will benefit by learning how to improve their picking technique and create their own chord progressions. Beginners will benefit from learning many new picking patterns while using basic chords.
Bluegrass Info:
The Kentucky bluegrass sound originates from mandolin legend Bill Monroe (9/13/11 - 9/9/96) who is credited as being "the father of bluegrass." This lively, infectious sound is credited as being the roots of many genres of music, including Country/Western, Honky Tonk, Western Swing, Folk, Rockabilly and Rock & Roll.
23 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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If there is a single thread uniting the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones with Cream, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Robin Trower it would be the blues. That ultimately guitar-driven, infinitely malleable, intrinsically American art form permeates most of the rock legacy and is a cornerstone of the British Invasion. In the late 1950s and early 1960s when American "race records" and rock 'n' roll sounds began washing up regularly on British shores with them came a handful of blues recordings by then relatively unknown artists. This series guitarist-author-musicologist Wolf Marshall presents a multi-course smorgasbord of British Blues Rock guitar licks for your listening and learning pleasure.
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The Chicago (and Detroit) blues sound originates from early Delta blues licks... only amplified. Experience learning the guitar style of Chicago & Detroit blues artists like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Elmore James. Guitarists like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, among legions of other guitarist, have attributed these blues legends as the reason they would pick up their guitar and passionately play everyday! These fundamental licks will inspire you as well!
Beginners will benefit from learning many licks and will be challenged to learn more advanced phrases and basic slide techniques. Intermediate players will benefit by learning how to use licks as building blocks to create their own phrases and learn many slide licks and important slide techniques!
21 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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Berklee College of Music graduate Chris Spencer will guide you through a vast array of historic jazz licks that will greatly enhance your playing. You will explore the evolution of the jazz guitar from the swing era to its current state. You will follow a fairly chronological path, starting out with the swing guitarists, moving into the bebop players, and then into the post bebop/modern sounds. Each "Lick of the Day" will focus on an individual guitar player style who contributed significantly to their era in jazz. The licks will also be over common chord progressions, so they can be reused often and in different situations.
The interactive lessons will take a more in-depth look at the previous week's material, plunging into more of the "why" than the "how". You will learn a bit of theory, as well as scale and arpeggio exercises to increase dexterity.
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The guitar instrumental genre is a significant musical development of the 20th Century. A remarkably eclectic genre, it borrows freely from a vast array of styles and sounds, such as swing, blues, country, jazz, classical, rock and ethnic music, and recombines their essences into a new form. Since its inception the guitar instrumental genre has been a potent force musically and an ideal showcase for a wide variety of players. In this series we'll look at this potpourri of musical styles in a special tribute to the Golden Age of the Guitar Instrumental.
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Explore learning guitar techniques and styles of Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins & many other grunge/alternative bands! These licks are fun for any beginners who are uninspired to learn songs like "Mary Had A Little Lamb," which are common in most beginning guitar method books. The interactive notation (play, loop, slow, virtual neck), video and looping jam tracks provide excellent tools for any beginner to learn cool licks!
22 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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Guitar F/X Licks - Guitar Effects & Sound Processors
The story of guitar sound effects is as old as the history of the amplified guitar itself. With the advent of the electric guitar was born a tinkering mentality among its players, who strove to make the instrument sound like anything but an amplified acoustic box with dazzling and remarkable results. The history of modern electric guitar music is indeed defined and punctuated by the innovations of giants like Les Paul, The Ventures, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen, Andy Summers, The Edge and Joe Satriani, all masters of skillful and musical effects use. The guitar effects tradition has been maintained through numerous stylistic trends by countless players and is embodied in the output of current experimenters like Tom Morello.
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Ever since the first guitar was amplified, there have been countless guitarists that have stepped onto the path of playing harder, faster and louder. In the '80s, bands such as Metallica, Pantera, Ozzy, AC/DC, Van Halen and many more, ruled the metal scene with their decibel crunching, power chord riff assault and blazing solos. They had every young guitarist practicing for hours trying to emulate the axe wielding heroes of the day. Several players made a huge and defining impact on the world of metal guitar music throughout the '80s. Edward Van Halen was one of the biggest influences during that time along with Metallica's Kirk Hammet, the late Randy Rhoads from Ozzy Osbourne and Angus Young from AC/DC. All these players belong to an elite group of fretboard shredders that changed the world of electric guitar and rock 'n roll as we know it. During this month, you will explore, learn and recreate some of the most exciting licks, styles and techniques used by several of the world's best heavy metal guitarists that helped shape the '80s.
21 Licks, 3 Interactive Lessons
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Guitarist Don Mock is best known as a player, author and founding instructor of GIT (Musicians Institute of Technology) in Hollywood, California. Mock has over 25 years experience teaching and giving clinics / seminars and has authored several popular guitar books and REH videos.
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In this Lick of the Day lesson series, Don will guide you through a vast array of standard and contemporary jazz licks and chord progressions. This series is designed to help the rock and blues guitarist make the "connection" to jazz guitar, thus expanding your repertoire and understanding of music theory. You can visualize and control advanced licks/chord progressions which you can see displayed on the virtual fretboard. The Riff Interactive tools allow you to loop and slow within pitch complex licks down to your skill level. It has never been so easy to learn jazz guitar, it's like having a GIT teacher in your own home!
23 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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This Lick of the Day series features some of the hottest guitar styles from progressive rock players like Frank Gambale, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John McLaughlin, Steve Morse, among others. These players display an amazing ability to perform fretboard acrobatics while using their mastery of blending rock, blues, country, jazz and classical within a melodic and dynamic context.
Lyle Ronglien will help demystify the mastery of these techniques by illustrating how to use simple pentatonic scales and blues licks along with other exotic scales such as the Lydian, Phrygian Dominant, Diminished and Whole Tone scales. You, the student will be able to analyze these advanced guitar techniques and provided the ability to slow each lick down to your skill level by using the Riff Interactive tools. The goal of this series is to empower students at any level to develop their own unique progressive rock guitar style.
22 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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Psychedelic 60's with guitar legend Jerry Miller of Moby Grape fame. Jerry blends his rock, blues & jazz influences to create a very unique guitar style. Jerry played the historic Monterey Pop Festival w/Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead among other rock legends and has influenced guitarists like Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin). Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young has called Jerry "the best damn guitar player I've ever heard!"
This series is like having Jerry as you personal guitar coach, the disc includes licks & rhythms Jerry Miller and Jerry Garcia use to jam at the Fillmore at sound check, the first licks ever played at the Monterey Pop Festival, and much more! You'll learn rock, blues, and jazz that will inspire you to play! Learn from a true guitar legend!
21 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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