Items Tagged with "Escape The First Four Frets"

14 Ways To Escape the First Four Frets - #11: The Major Scale

<p>&amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;gt;QWWhat</p>In this video lesson, I Read More...

Author: Jon Nicol
Tags: , worship guitar, scales, major scale, lessons, lead guitar, ionian, improv, guitar lesson, fretboard theory, escape the first four frets,

Creating Inner Movement

Here's an excerpt from Chord Voicings for the Advancing Guitarists. It shows how to create inner movement within open movable chords. Read More...

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14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 9

Escape #8: The Ubiquitous D Shape(Part 9, Way to Escape # 8. I know, it's confusing. Just go with me here...)OK, I barely know what ubiquitous means. I've just always wanted to use it ever since I heard Steve Taylor sing "as a slave to that ubiquitous beat" in Am I in Sync? on the Meltdown album (an Read More...

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14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 8

14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 8:Escape #7: Power Chords (and not just the ones your aging, AC/DC-junkie uncle uses...) Picture it: A Peavey Bandit amp sitting on my unmade bed. I plug in my shiny new, dark blue Carvin DC200 with a Floyd Rose tremolo that I'd just gotten via UPS, paid Read More...

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14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 7

14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets: Part 7[Escape #6: The Sus2 Chord]The Sus2 chord is a major triad's cooler cousin and a power chord's more sonically interesting step-sister.A Major Triad is a:FifthThird RootThe Third is a "major 3rd," which makes it a major triad.A Power Chord is the neutered Read More...

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14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 6

14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 6Read part 5[Escape #5] Open Movable ChordsThere's nothing new under the sun. But sometime in jr. high, circa 1988, I slid the open E chord shape up to the 6th fret I thought I had found it. I moved it two more frets and was absolutely convinced that I ha Read More...

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14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 5

14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 5Read Part 4[Escape #4]In much of life, theory precedes (and is often far easier) than practice.I can tell you the basic theory behind a internal combustion engine. Fuel, sparks, pistons, explosions. But don't ask me to fix my lawn mower engine. And I can Read More...

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14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 4

14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 4[Escape #3 continued]...need to read the first half?We're in the middle of exploring barre chords as a way to escape the first four frets. If all we knew was what we discussed in the first half, our use of the standard barre chords would require some ser Read More...

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14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 3

14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 3Read Part 2[Escape #3]I've always said the "F" chord is aptly named.For beginning players, it's a wall that seems surmountable. Up to this point, the newbie player has figured out how to contort his left hand to play a G, keep from hitting multiple strin Read More...

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14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 2

Read Part 1 The second way to escape the first four frets is, well, gonna suck. You're not going to like this one. Let's just get that out of the way right now. The best we can hope for is that feeling you have running your tongue over your teeth after a visit to the dentist. Nice and clean. Y Read More...

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14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 1

14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets. Part ONE...[I added a supplemental video instruction this blog post. The videos I'll be posting here on the blog are works in progress. Let me know your feedback on the videos (via email or post reply). It will help me make better stuff for you.] Do your frets Read More...

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Escape the 1st 4 frets...Triads 432, Part 2

In this guitar lesson, we'll continue to explore how to escape the first four frets by using triads. This free video training will show how to move triads up the neck on strings 4-3-2. If you'd like to see these triad shapes in black and white, you can download a three page supplemental training fro Read More...

Author: Jon Nicol
Tags: triads, guitar lesson, video training, escape the first four frets,