WU11 Strong Pairs Speed Challenge (FLP)
You will get another crack at the warmup from week 1 of this month today, but this time the tempo will be increased :-) The warmups are designed to bu…
Lesson Category: Guitar Routine
WU11 Strong Pairs (FLP)
The warmup today is centered around pairs of fingers that are commonly used when executing scale patterns. You will focus on your index finger and rin…
Veruca Salt (Gm – Rhythm – FP)
The chord progression for today is creepy. Plain and simple, this is a creepy, Tim Burton-esque sounding chord progression. You will be playing a Gm, …
Edward Scissorhands (Gm – Scale – FP)
Closed position scales… the all powerful, moveable closed position scales. Closed position means that all of the notes in this scale are fretted. Yo…
Crosspicking Week – Seventh Heaven (C – Chord Transition – FLP)
Emphasizing dissonance is something that is wildly effective and it's exactly what you will be doing today. You will be using an "odd" crosspicking ap…
Crosspicking Week – Tricky Texture (C – Rhythm – FLP)
Crosspicking on the lower strings of your guitar is territory that absolutely must be explored and experimented with. The lush body that lower chord v…
Crosspicking Week – Drone Zone (C – Scale – FLP)
Using a drone while flatpicking is seriously fun, especially when you can compose an entire solo infused with droney goodness. It just so happens that…
Torture Chamber (Dm – Rhythm – FP)
This chord progression does two things… first, it sounds quite sad (D minor is indeed the saddest of all keys), and two, it shows that the backward …
Dungeon of Despair (Dm – Scale – FP)
The beauty of the backward roll continues today, as well as the exploitation of the dropped Low E string. Using a D minor scale on the D string, you w…