It’s a video lesson from Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top).
He shows and explains how to play blues on guitar.
Billy Gibbons demonstrates slow easy blues riffs.
The main purpose of this lesson is to learn how to play an improvised blues on guitar.
In this Master Class Steve Vai shares his secrets about how he usually does guitar exercises before every show. Also he suggests to every practicing musician to buy the Korg Pandora for a simple training.
Steve Vai says that it does not matter for him are you virtuous or just a simple guitar player. But if you are going to become a virtuous you must work a lot. Steve Vai believes that every one has an ability to become a great guitarist. The question is in your courage – if you are ready for this.
Greg Howe (Gregory Howe) is an American guitarist. His musician career counts 30 years. And during this time he has released 9 studio albums and worked with many famous artists such as Michael Jackson, Enrique Iglesias, ‘N Sync, Justin Timberlake and others. Also Greg Howe is known as a presenter of ESP guitars. He makes master class of guitar playing exactly from ESP brand. And this article and video is a one of them.
How to Tune a Guitar?
If you have an electronic tuner, you can tune your guitar in very simple way.
But if you do not then this guide will help you.
Main difficulty is how to tune the first thinnest string (The rest of strings we wil tune using it).
So, how to tune the first string?
Reading Sheet Music
So, How to read notes? What is a Flat Note? What is a Sharp Note?
Everyone knows that there are seven notes:
This is a Joe Satriani’s master class. Joe tells about his guitar technique and shares the secrets.
He tells about Satch Boogie, Flying in Blue Dream, Midnight and House Full of Bullets.
Joe Satriani – is a very famous American guitarist. He worked as a guitar instructor with Kirk Hammett (Metallica), Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde ect.)
He worked with Mick Jagger as a lead guitarist in 1988 and as a lead guitarist of Deep Purple in 1994.
In 1996 Joe founded the band G3.
Video guitar lesson by Angus Young from AC/DC.
Angus Young tells about his guitar technique and shares the secrets.
And about influence by his brother Malcolm Young and Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and John Lee Hooker.
Angus explains why he gave preference to Gibson SG and also why he did not like Gibson Les Paul.
Video guitar lesson by Kirk Hammett from Metallica.
In this video lesson Kirk Hammett shows slow riffs from album “Master of Puppets” and specifically from songs: Master of Puppets, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Battery, Damage Inc., The Thing That Should Not Be.
Jailbreak was written by Bon Scott, Angus Young and Malcolm Young during a soundcheck in 1975.
It is the final track of album “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” (1976).
You will learn how to play AC/DC Jailbreak on guitar.
It is the third song on the Nirvana’s debut album – Bleach (1989). There is also an acoustic version from MTV Unplugged in New York and as a single in 1994.
According to Chad Channing, Nirvana’s drummer around the time of Bleach, Cobain didn’t have a title for the song when he first brought it into the studio. When asked what it was about, Cobain replied, “It’s about a girl.”
This song originally released in 1979 (album Dynasty).
This song was written in the style of disco music. Paul Stanley (guitarist for the rock group Kiss) said he wrote this song to prove that the disco is a very simple genre of music.
Later this song covered more than 25 singers and bands.
This is a very famous acoustic song by Nirvana. Kurt Cobain covered this song on MTV’s Unplugged in 1993.
The identity of the song’s author is unknown, but it has been recorded by many artists in numerous genres: Bill Monroe, Lead Belly, Dick Justice, Peg Leg Howell, Mark Lanegan, Hole, Bob Dylan, Osborne Brothers, Nirvana…
This song also known as “In the Pines”, “Black Girl” or “My girl”.
This is a video “How to play The Guess Who American Woman on guitar”.
The authors of the song “American Woman” is a band from Canada “The Guess Who”. It’s first release was in January 1970 (album title “American Woman”). Many artists after that sang this song. For example Krokus and The Butthole Surfers. But the most famous cover was by Lenny Kravitz in 1999.
This is a video “How to play Black Sabbath N.I.B. on guitar”.
The title was widely rumoured to have stood for “Nativity in Black” (“Name In Blood”). The song N.I.B. was written in 1970. And it was a fourth track of band’s first album “Black Sabbath”. The story of the N.I.B. song is about devil’s love. Love changes him into a good person. The main hero of lyrics is a Lucifer.
Gibson SG and Marshall Amplification. A classic combination that uses a lot of musicians. The clearest example – Angus Young from AC/DC. Angus Young has used Gibson SGs in various forms (his original, and the basis for his current signature model, was a 1970–72 SG) throughout his career. Young mainly uses a reissued version of the Marshall 1959 with model 1960 AX and BX 4×12 cabinets loaded with Celestion G12M “Greenbacks”.