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Whatever style of music you’re into, rhythm guitar is an essential component to finding the "pocket." When players mention "pocket", they’re talking about how the how each element in the band work together to build an irresistible groove. Without a deep pocket, a song never feels settled or dynamic. It’s the rhythm guitarist's job to make sure the pocket always feels great, which in turn enlivens the overall feeling of the music and helps glue it all together.

How to use Midi Expression and Continuous Controllers to add life to your mixes. Using Midi Expression and Continuous Controllers video tutorial explains what are Midi Expression and Continuous Controllers in the DAW and how to use them in music production.

The blues-rock genre has provided a vehicle for some of the most legendary guitar soloists on the planet. Players like Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Jeff Beck, Michael Schenker, Eric Johnson, and David Gilmour are all widely celebrated for their more advanced harmonic and melodic approach to blues-rock soloing.

Boom-Chick is a versatile technique used and refined by many great Fingerstyle guitar icons such as Mose Rager, Ike Everly, Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Odell Martin, Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Tommy Emmanuel, Thom Bresh, Richard Smith, Doyle Dykes, and many more. The technique can be applied to Folk, Country, Blues, Jazz, and Americana tunes. At the core of the technique is an alternating thumb pattern often played with muted bass strings and sustaining treble strings. Upon having a grasp of the fundamental techniques commonly used in this style you can perform bass, chord, and melody simultaneously on one single instrument.

Muddy Waters, Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf along with other blues legends of the '40s are all widely respected as the pioneers - the very roots - of urban electric blues. The harder-edged blues vocabulary they created has inspired virtually every generation of blues guitarists since.

Hi, I'm Brad Carlton and welcome to Guitar Lab: Ear Training Vol. 3. This course will give you a systematic approach for developing your ear and also for knowing where a pitch is located on the fretboard. You'll be presented with principles including intervals, bass notes, and diatonic triads. Each of these topics will apply to a question and answer format where you'll be presented with a pitch or chord, and will then be asked to find it on the sixth string. I'll then give you the correct answer along with any pertinent information about the process involved in finding that pitch or chord.

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American roots music was born in the South and worked its way up the Mississippi River to Chicago, New York, and eventually even across the pond to England. The electric guitar was the vehicle that changed the face of 20th-century music forever.

Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, George Benson, Wes Montgomery - all these great guitarists made their mark back in the '60s playing a soulful, groove-infused style that melded jazz, blues, gospel, and R&B.

A detailed tutorial on how to compress a driving EDM Drum Beat. Compressing EDM Drum Beats video tutorial explains in detail how to use various compressor designs to process driving EDM drum beats.

iZotope’s Stutter Edit 2 is an invaluable tool for creating everything from simple beat repeats to crazy sonic mangling, which help to add interest and variation to any performance or production. On this 4-hour course from Producertech Senior Tutor Rob Jones, you’ll be guided through the software and taught everything from basic usage to more advanced effects progression design.

To solo fluently in any style you have to acquire a vocabulary of licks and their phrasing in that style to be able to improvise authentically. This is especially true for country guitar, where it's not only important which notes to play but also how to phrase those notes. No other style of popular music demands as much technical mastery of right and left-hand techniques and that's why so many blues, jazz, and even rock guitarists borrow and steal licks from the masters of country guitar.

Les Paul was not only a brilliant guitarist and arranger but his early experiments with overdubbing (also known as'sound on sound') pioneered the art and science of multi-track recording.

Whatever style you play, having a set’s worth of solo guitar classical pieces in your repertoire is well worth the short amount of time that you’d invest in learning them. Performing these pieces for yourself or for family and friends is very gratifying and having them at your fingertips for gigs at weddings or parties is financially rewarding. But the biggest benefit of learning them, and their underlying techniques, is how dramatically your overall prowess on the guitar will be lifted.

Hi, I'm Brad Carlton and welcome to Guitar Lab: Ear Training Vol. 2. This course will give you a systematic approach for developing your ear and also for knowing where a pitch is located on the fretboard. You'll be presented with principles including intervals, bass notes, and diatonic triads. Each of these topics will apply to a question and answer format where you'll be presented with a pitch or chord, and will then be asked to find it on the sixth string. I'll then give you the correct answer along with any pertinent information about the process involved in finding that pitch or chord.