Tricks & Tips to Make Your Guitar Solos Sound More Jazzy
How Do You Make Guitar Solos More Jazzy? Listen to lots of jazz It goes without saying that you will sound the most like what you listen to the most. Listening to jazz all the time will automatically lead you to improvise using the kind of melodic phrases more often that jazz guys use in … Tricks & Tips to Make Your Guitar Solos Sound More Jazzy
Is Sight-Reading On Guitar a Necessary Skill?
Sight-Reading On Guitar: Necessary Skill? It all depends. What are your goals? What do you want to learn on guitar? Where would you like to be on guitar 5 years from now, 10, 20 years from now? If none of your answers to this include: Become a top level guitar or music teacher Join jazz … Is Sight-Reading On Guitar a Necessary Skill?
Tips and Tricks To Make Guitar Solos More Melodic & Colorful
How To Make Guitar Solos More Melodic How do you make guitar solos more melodic? There are 2 main answers to that question. 1) Outline the chords better. For example: avoid hitting too many F notes on a C chord (the F clashes with the E note in a C chord) 2) Play less scalar … Tips and Tricks To Make Guitar Solos More Melodic & Colorful
Posted in Harmony/Chords, Melody/Improv, Music Theory Tagged arpeggios, guitar solos, improvisation, listening skills, melodic curve
How to play Steve Winwood’s “I’m A Man” On Guitar
How to play Stevie Winwood’s “I’m A Man” On Guitar Stevie already sounded like a 40-year-old black soul singer when he was a teenager. Here’s the studio version: The song only has 2 song sections: verse and chorus. It keeps alternating between those 2 song sections. As you might be able to detect by ear, … How to play Steve Winwood’s “I’m A Man” On Guitar
Multi FX vs. Pedalboards. What is the best choice?
Multi FX vs. Pedalboards For all too many years I used to be a tone purist, so to speak. What I mean by that, is that there was absolutely no way I was ever going to use Multi-FX processors. I LOVED my amazing-sounding stompboxes too much. I had strong feelings and opinions against what I … Multi FX vs. Pedalboards. What is the best choice?
Posted in Guitar Gear Tagged AX8, Fractal Audio, Guitar Effects, guitar pedals, multi-effects processors, pedal boards, stompboxes