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GreenAsJade Newbie

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Check out signature.

 

 

Waste of time. A few hastly typed in scales in tab, with more ad content than scales? Why even bother - there is so much great stuff out there!

 

GaJ

 

A new Text Lesson Site was posted at the guitar lesson review site:

 

"iBreathMusic.com"

 

 

 

Hey all,

 

I mentioned in the instructional videos thread that I've put up a "guitar lessons review site".

 

Basically, as a number of people had said in that thread and this, it seems like it would be handy to have reviews and a "list" of guitar lesson web sites, DVDs etc all in one place - that's what I had in mind.

 

I am starting to populate the site with links to, and descriptions of, all the good lesson sites mentioned in this thread - maybe it will save some trawling through here. If there are good or bad sites out there you'd like to add, or if you're willing to put up a review of any, please do.

 

GaJ

 

A new Text Lesson Site was posted at the guitar lesson review site:

 

"iBreatheMusic.com"

 

 

GaJ

 

A new Text Lesson Site was posted at the guitar lesson review site:

 

"JonFinn.com"

 

GaJ

 

A new Book was posted at the guitar lesson review site:

 

"For Guitar Players Only"

 

GaJ

 

A new Book was posted at the guitar lesson review site:

 

"Advanced Modern Rock Guitar Improvisation"

 

GaJ

 

A new Text/Audio Lesson Site was posted at the

 

GaJ

 

A new Web Text Lesson, from the "Inside The Music" site, was posted at the guitar lesson review site:

 

"Music Theory For Experienced Guitar Players"

 

GaJ

 

A new Video Lesson Site was posted at the guitar lesson review site:

 

"Guitar Solos"

 

GaJ

 

A new review of of the Video Lesson Site "Guitar Solos" was posted at the guitar lesson review site, by GreenAsJade.

 

GreenAsJade gave "Guitar Solos" 4 stars, leaving it with an overal rating of 4 stars.

 

GaJ

 

A new Video Lesson Site was posted at the guitar lesson review site:

 

"GuitarInstructor.com"

 

GaJ

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I came across this guy on youtube. He is absolutely amazing. His name is Doug Seven and he has a website that he tells you about in the youtube video. I'll post the link below. Anyway, if you go to the site and input your email, he'll send you a link to one of his pages with 5 or 6 different videos...all about 20 minutes or so each. What I learned in 10 minutes from watching explained some things to me that I've been trying to figure out for 20 years now. Anyway, it was a big help to me. Check it out.

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Loads of good video, audio and tab based lessons here...

 

fingerstyle blues (5 part lesson)

http://www.musicradar.com/tuition/guitars/how-to-play-fingerstyle-blues-guitar-part-1-211268

 

slide guitar (3 parts)

http://www.musicradar.com/tuition/guitars/martin-harleys-guide-to-slide-guitar-part-1-211004

 

Paul Gilbert's mental 7-note tapping

http://www.musicradar.com/tuition/guitars/paul-gilberts-crazy-seven-note-tapping-lick-211388

 

etc etc

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I came across this guy on youtube. He is absolutely amazing. His name is Doug Seven and he has a website that he tells you about in the youtube video. I'll post the link below. Anyway, if you go to the site and input your email, he'll send you a link to one of his pages with 5 or 6 different videos...all about 20 minutes or so each. What I learned in 10 minutes from watching explained some things to me that I've been trying to figure out for 20 years now. Anyway, it was a big help to me. Check it out.


 

 

Why don't you just post us the link that he sent you?

 

GaJ

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The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization
George Russell's book, The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, first published in 1953, was the first theoretical contribution to come from jazz, and was responsible for introducing modal improvisation which resulted in the seminal recording of Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue."

Since it's publication, there have been scores of books on the market which have "borrowed" bits of the Concept's information, but there is only one original.

"[The Concept] was the great path-breaker for Miles Davis and John Coltrane's modality."
- Joachim Berendt, The Jazz Book.

GEORGE RUSSELL'S LYDIAN CHROMATIC CONCEPT OF TONAL ORGANIZATION,
first described in a self-published pamphlet in 1953, marks a radical expansion of the harmonic language for both composition and analysis and also marks an abandonment of the major-minor system which dominated Western music for over 350 years. Radical as it may be, the theory is more than one person's eccentricity, having considerable precedent in the work of Ravel, Scriabin, Debussy and in some of the learned works of Bach. The word "Lydian" is here derived from one of the classical Greek scale modes. Russell's root scale follows the natural overtone series and runs from C to C with F sharp, rather than the customary F natural of the major scale.

For searchers like Miles and Coltrane and Bill Evans, and many in the generations that followed them, Russell's theory provided a harmonic background and a path for further exploration. It also gave rise to the "modal" jazz movement that enjoyed great popularity in the 70's and 80's for better and for worse. We should not underestimate the extent of Russell's enterprise. His work stands head-to-head with Arnold Schoenberg's "liberation" of the twelve-tone scale, the polytonal work of Stravinsky, and the ethnic scale explorations of Bartok and Kodaly. If you've listened to jazz during the last fifty years, you've heard a good deal of George Russell's ideas; he is one of the 20th century's great originals and one of its bravest innovators.

Having finished this work, Russell is completing another volume on related elements which he has been simultaneously developing over the last several decades.

The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization was expanded several times over the years, and has grown greatly since its first appearance in 1953. It is with pride and pleasure that we present this fourth and final edition.

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I can't believe no one's listed Dave Weiner's site riffoftheweek.com. He easily gives the best guitar lessons I have seen on the internet.

In case you don't know, Dave Weiner has played guitar for Steve Vai. I went to his site expecting to learn some Vai licks, but instead I got something better - he teaches you how to be unique, and he's a really excellent guitar player himself.

I can't think of anything he hasn't covered, except classical guitar. But you won't find lessons anything like his. It's hard to explain, you need to watch to see what I mean. But do it!

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Just found this.


Some pretty good tabbed out lessons for rock, etc.


 

 

 

hey virg

 

that site looks and sounds pretty cool

actually I didn't really check much of it out , but when I saw the guitar and how big he is, and then with a pink guitar, I said "what the fk", but after listening to him play, I said "holy sh.." this man plays

 

thanks for the site

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I've been trying to construct a site that will help beginning to intermediate guitarists build skills and knowledge. The site is far from complete. However, if you are a beginner to intermediate guitarist, I believe that you will find enough useful information and graphics keep you busy and productive for a long time.

1) For Reference Notes and an explanation of how to tune the guitar to itself. http://greenwichguitars.com/tuning_your_instrument.htm

2) How to hold your guitar.
http://greenwichguitars.com/holding_a_guitar_pick.htm

3) Warm up exercises to build strenght, independence and economy of motion. http://greenwichguitars.com/exercises.htm

4) How to read chord charts, scale charts and tablature.
http://greenwichguitars.com/reading_chord_diagrams,_scale_charts_and_tablature.htm

5) A string by string study of standard notation.
http://greenwichguitars.com/reading_standard_notation.htm

6) Understanding the fundamentals of Major scale construction.
http://greenwichguitars.com/understanding_scales.htm

7) Building chords in three part harmony
http://greenwichguitars.com/building_chords_in_three_part_harmony.htm

8) Reference charts to all scales and basic chords.
http://greenwichguitars.com/chord_and_key_reference.htm

9) Comfortably Numb Song Study
http://greenwichguitars.com/Comfortable%20and%20Numb/comfortable_and_numb.htm

10) Back in Black Song Study
http://greenwichguitars.com/black_in_back.htm

I hope that you will find some of these links to be useful. Please feel free to leave feedback. Suggestions for improvement are welcome.

Thanks
MrWhite

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I use YouTube a lot for practicing. There's a tonne of great content on there for learning songs, licks, etc.
The problem, though, is that I have to juggle playing guitar and watching the video. I'm always playing catch up. I have to stop, rewind, and repeat chunks of the video, which is a nightmare when YouTube decides it needs to buffer those last ten seconds again.
So, I've created a web app that's supposed to make things easier to follow. It breaks things down into smaller steps, which you can also loop. Each step has titles and extra information, which is admittedly pretty thin at the moment, but as it is it lets you go back to any step in the video for any particular part you want to go over again.

To get to the point, here's an example with a lovely little acoustic arrangement of Hallelujah:

http://www.stepup.io/videos/d29ac83eecd945ed

As you can see it just breaks it up into step-by-step chunks, which saves you constantly rewinding the video, and whatever other annoyances there are that come with it. The idea is that tutorials, and just about anything in video form can be broken up into sections easily.
So I'd love some feedback, and if it's something you'd use then definitely sign up with the yellow button at the top, so you can submit your own videos to help with the community on there! :)

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