October Learn & Master Guitar News

 
Video Tip - Tricks with Open Strings

Using the wonderful sounds of open strings ringing out on a guitar is something that a keyboard playing can only dream of. No other instrument can capture that sound. Here are some easy to use practical tricks for using open strings combined with pulloffs to create incredible fast sounding movement while just moving a couple of fingers.

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Announcing: Fingerstyle Guitar--Coming Mid-November!



Grab your favorite guitar and limber up your fingers. We're about to release one of our most anticipated courses: Fingerstyle Guitar.

You’ll cover both basic and advanced techniques in Classical, Jazz, Merle Travis style, and more. With this 10-disc set, Steve Krenz shows you how to play beautifully and cleanly using his tried and true fingerstyle method. Each session is accompanied by both a beginner and an advanced workshop session. Best of all, you’ll learn more than just “technique.” Steve teaches you how to arrange songs on your own for fingerstyle guitar. Imagine playing your favorite songs for family and friends, even if you’ve never heard them played fingerstyle before.


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Guitar Resources Sale

This month we’re featuring some of the best Jazz guitar resources that I know of. “Jazz Lines” is a DVD by, arguably one of the greatest Jazz guitarists of our era, Joe Pass. Anything he has to say about how he approaches jazz soloing is worth any serious guitarists attention.

Also, “Guitar Seeds” by Jim Grassel is one of a handful of books that guitarists, from beginners to pros, have referred to as a book that revolutionized how they view the fretboard. So I wanted to make it available. — Steve


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This Week in Gibson's Skills House

Latest Song Lessons: Champagne Supernova (Oasis)
                    Lonely is the Night (Billy Squier)
                    Over You (Miranda Lambert)
                    BlackBird (Lennon and McCartney)
                    Southern Voice (Tim McGraw)
                    Poker Face (Lady Gaga)

Guitar Apprentice: Champagne Supernova (Oasis)

New Videos from Steve Krenz:

Foundation Lessons: Money Chords in E and
The Nashville Number System: Pt. 1 and
The Nashville Number System: Pt. 2

Style Lessons: Get U2's "Edge" Sound

Power Workouts: Major Scales



 
October Student of the Month

Name: Ken Wilson

Profile name: kwilson5035

City: Jacksonville, FL

My Gear: Rainsong WS1000
Yamaha FG730
Yamaha 160

Favorite artists/bands to listen to:Beatles, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Willie Nelson, Joan Baez, and anything else that even remotely similar

MEET KEN HERE...