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How To Play Bass Guitar – Lessons for Beginners – Funk Jam

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There are lots of ways to strike the strings on your bass to get different sound. Pulling with your fingers, using a pick, and using your thump to slap the bass and pulling your fingers up from underneath the strings to pop them. The slap and pop techniques are a fun way to get that unique sound, so in this segment Ill show you the basic techniques needed to play in this style. When slapping, the idea is to hit the string from the top/side and with your thumb and then to get it away so that the strings can freely vibrate. When popping, youve got to learn to use your wrist to open up your hand, and by doing so have your fingers pop the strings to get that sounds. We end with a couple of exercises using octaves in an E minor pentatonic scale and introduce the bounce technique to get a double hit with your thumb.

Duration : 0:7:32

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How to Play Acoustic Guitar – Lessons for Beginners – Strumming Chords Pt. 2

admin — Sat, 29 May 2010 23:43:36 +0000

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Welcome to acoustic guitar For Beginners with Rich Maloof! Time to dust off your guitar and start strumming. You won’t be bogged down in this course by tedious exercises or music theory. Instead, we get straight to the mechanics of chords and strums so that you can pick up a piece of sheet music (or find some online) and start playing songs that you know and love.

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Duration : 0:5:29

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How To Play Bass Guitar – Lessons for Beginners – Open Strings

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In this section I will introduce you to the wonders of written music, starting with the most basic things to play on your Bass, open strings. I strongly urge every beginning Bassist to learn how to read. Not doing so will only shut you out of a great deal of information and knowledge. So the best way to start is to get used to looking at the music while you play some very simple exercises. Well learn to understand what the differences between whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, triplets and sixteenth notes are, and how to establish good practice habits to familiarize yourself with them. Ill also talk about the need to learn how to mute the strings that you are not playing and give you some tips to start working on. I will also give you some tips on right hand technique to help you get a nice consistent tone out of your Bass.

Duration : 0:6:59

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Changing Your Guitar Strings

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:30:39 +0000

Spend thirty seconds playing a guitar strung with old, corroded strings and youll never want to strum on old strings again — unless youre strange and lazy like me. I havent changed the strings on my acoustic guitar for over a year. Every song Ive ever recorded was tracked with crusty strings. Every song Ive ever recorded sounds like crap, too, but lets not get judgy.

For those of you who dont know or dont want to admit you know, there is a sort of black soot that leaches onto your fingertips when you play really old, dirty strings. It smells like pennies with chicken grease. Strings have a good shelf life in the package but once you play them the metal reacts with your own sweat and filth and skin cells. I was working my way through 50 Acoustic Licks on my acoustic the other night (Petes Best) and in a freak accident I blinked one of my eyelids inside out and, as anyone would, I tried to pry it loose again, but with a sooty finger. It burned for a long time.

Beyond the health risks, crusty strings have a characteristic anti-tone. Part of the fun in playing the guitar is hearing the incredible timbres and upper harmonics, and those sounds arent so incredible when theyre bubbling through year-old finger muck. A lot of guitarists find new strings too bright and brash, and I know Eddie Van Halen has said that worn-in strings were crucial to his brown sound tone. But theres a difference between worn-in and dead. And after the strings go dead, they start to decay.

At any rate, I think Ive made my point. Playing old strings is terrible and potentially dangerous and I dont know why I do it. I chalk it up as one of the many terrible cross-over habits from my youth; guitar strings were expensive when I had to buy them with leftover milk money. So I only changed them when they broke. Simply put, my acoustic strings arent broken yet.

Im working hard to change those habits. In fact, I have several packs of fresh strings in my drawer right now. But mostly Im more careful about touching my eyes.

Duration : 0:0:53

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How To Play Bass Guitar – Lessons for Beginners – Introduction

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:26:16 +0000

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Bass players lay down the foundation in practically every style of music by bridging the gap between the strict rhythm of percussion instruments and the melodic domain of lead instruments and vocals. Todays bassists must not only lock-in with the drummer to serve up the all-important groove but are now also called on to step up front and treat the audience to a searing and melodic solo from time to time. Good bass players are in high demand and can easily find gigs, making the instrument an attractive proposition for aspiring musicians. But once you decide to play bass, you still face the question of where to begin and thats what Bass Basics is all about.

Laying down the foundation for freshman bassists, Bass Basics follows an innovative and very effective contextual approach to accelerate the learning process. Youll play your way through the course, learning all of the fundamentals of the instrument from tuning up to nailing that first audition. Bass Basics walks you through each of the lessons in an easy, hands-on fashion without requiring you to struggle through tedious examples and exercises. Better yet, the material is presented from the point of view of a very accomplished musician, who worked his way up from novice to top pro and is willing to share information that hes gathered from decades of top-level stage and studio experience.

This musician is none other than Stu Hamm, bass player extraordinaire who first came to prominence after playing on Steve Vais Flex-Able disc. Going on to become the bassist of choice to lay down the low-end for virtuoso guitarists like Frank Gambale and Joe Satriani, Stu has continued to hone his already considerable chops, both on stage and in the studio. Fortunately, Stus teaching skills match his musicianship, giving you a rare opportunity to learn from one of the very best bassists on the planet.

Bass Basics starts at the very beginning, teaching you journeyman-level bass chores such as the proper way to change and tune strings. You will learn the instruments individual parts as well as what to look for when shopping for a new bass Stu even gives you a guided tour of his latest Fender® signature Urge Bass II! He shares tips on tone settings for both the bass and amplifier and how to use these controls to get the sound you want.

Stu demonstrates the essential left and right hand techniques developed to build strength and endurance. He teaches you the language of music to help make quick work communicating ideas at jams and auditions. Bass Basics equips you with a solid foundation of techniques, theory, rhythm patterns and bass lines, all of which can applied in any style of music. Stu even shows you how to read tab and follow a chart as well as teach you the essential theory required to take your playing in any direction you choose.

Never before has a bassist of this caliber shared such vast knowledge in such a comprehensible and accessible way. If youre serious about learning the bass and want to enjoy the journey, let Bass Basics be your guide. You won’t go astray!

Duration : 0:1:41

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How to Play Acoustic Guitar – Lessons for Beginners – Strumming Chords Pt. 1

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Welcome to acoustic guitar For Beginners with Rich Maloof! Time to dust off your guitar and start strumming. You won’t be bogged down in this course by tedious exercises or music theory. Instead, we get straight to the mechanics of chords and strums so that you can pick up a piece of sheet music (or find some online) and start playing songs that you know and love.

As you click from lesson to lesson, check out the other elements in the video player. The Jam tracks, Text, and PDF’s all support the lessons taught on video.

Duration : 0:4:34

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100 Twang Thangs – Guitar Lessons – Joe Dalton – Introduction

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Twang Thangs: I think I counted about 113 licks we jam packed into this thang. But it is not about the licks. I would like you to think of these licks as a vehicle for extracting the twang feel from your heart, soul, and fingers. Twist these licks every which way and apply them to different chords, grooves, and styles. Make them your own. Dont forget about the possible impact you can have on the feel from your picking hand as well. Remember it’s all about the feeling you put into it. Anyone can play the licks. Becoming an artist is the challenge I call you to today. Listening is very important. As a matter of fact, there is no substitute for learning by listening. Listen to the twang heroes, then listen to your own playing and compare. Make the adjustments and repeat the process. Become the artist.

Duration : 0:1:14

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How To Play Guitar – Rock Lessons for Beginners – Introduction

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I would like to start off by talking a little bit about your instrument. So let’s get started: Tuning Pegs: There are many different kinds of tuning pegs ranging from classic tuners that you find on an acoustic guitar all the way to the locking tuners that you use on electric guitars to make those monster whammy bar dives! These gears are what you will keep your instrument in tune with. They will raise and lower the pitch of each string and are ratio to give an accurate method to tuning the guitar. The Nut: The nut located here is a small piece of bone, plastic, brass, stainless steel or graphite that guides the strings onto the fret board, giving it consistent lateral string placement. The Frets: The frets are usually made of Nickel alloy of stainless steel and embedded along the fret board to give us different pitches. The way that it does this is it shortens the strings and gives them a smaller vibration length giving them a different pitch. The Bridge: The bridge is what holds the strings into place onto the body. They also create vibrations that ring through the guitar. There are action adjustments and intonation adjustments that are located here. But it is probably a good idea to let your local repairman take care of those things. The Pick Guard: This little piece of plastic is usually what protects the front side of your guitar from all of those Led Zeppelin and Pete Townshend battle stage strums. It also provides a place for pick ups to be installed and is kind of nice when you switch pickups to try and locate different sounds and such. Pick Ups: If you wanna play rock and roll which I think we are all probably on the quest to do, you are going to need pickups. This lets us go from not being heard at all to knocking out our parent’s windows. I know my Mom can attest for this. I turned up my amp to the point of destruction quite a few times. I kept trying to tell her it is the only way to get that cool EVH sound. I don’t think she cared what kind of tone it was. I called it the EVH she called it WTL (way too loud). Volume/Tone/Tone: Depending on if you are playing with a Les Paul style guitar or a Strat style you find that you either have 1 volume and 2 tones or 2 volumes and 2 tones. The volume knob turns the main output or volume up or down. Remember although loud is way cool there is a bit of professionalism in the rolled back volume that lets the other players be heard with having to use the turbo ultra loud change the rotation of the earth button. The Tone knobs are what takes the guitar from smooth jazz to rock and rock and blues all the way to the sweet and smooth sounds of Eric Johnson. Really experiment with these functions. They drastically change the way you sound and the way you play. Have fun with that. Pick up selector: This device changes the pickups and there are quite a few different combinations. My guitar has a 5-way switch. This allows me to have five positions to play on. A Les Paul has three. Both have plenty of combinations to wield the tone of kings but for me I am a Strat guy. I think either you are a Strat man or Paul man. I love them both but at the end of the day I wanna play a Strat. Input: Where we plug our guitars in.

Duration : 0:0:39

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TrueFire Guitar Lessons for Beginners – Day 1 – Song Keys

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Today we’re going to work on proper posture and hand positions when playing guitar (lefties–don’t forget that when I say “right,” that means left for you, and vice versa). Sometimes a simple adjustment to your body helps break through barriers that may be preventing you from getting the sound you desire. We are all shaped a little differently, so make small adjustments that help you physically relax and feel comfortable. Pay special attention to forming good habits right from day one. Only then can you be sure to please your ear with your talent! Additionally, I’ll show you how to easily tune your guitar. You should begin each day’s lesson by setting up your posture and hand positions, and then getting in tune. I’ll also talk a little about song keys. Remember that the goal of this course is to quickly enable you to play guitar and sing along on your own or with your friends. Playing along with your favorite recordings might be difficult at first, but that will surely change as you become more proficient.

Duration : 0:1:14

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TrueFire Guitar Lessons for Beginners – Day 1 – Tuning the Guitar

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:10:12 +0000

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