Rock Fusion Guitar Jam Track
Today’s post is a looping jam track with a feel reminiscent of rock-fusion pioneer Billy Cobham.
It is in the key of B with a distinct minor/Dorian character.
Try the following scales:
I will post a related lesson to this track soon. Until then, have fun!
Storm Stenvold
GuitarTeacher.com
Parts Of The Guitar
Learning the parts of the guitar is fundamental. The most common guitars used today can be classified as either Acoustic Guitars or Electric Guitars. Both types share the same three basic areas in common: Head, Neck and Body.
The head of the guitar (or ‘headstock’ as some prefer) is where the tuning keys are found. Where the guitar head and neck meet is the nut. The nut slots the strings and provides string height in relation to the neck. The neck has frets to shorten the depressed string by defined distances. The fingerboard (not the frets) is where we press down the strings. Not all guitars have position markers but they are used to help number the frets.
The body of the guitar defines the difference between Acoustic and Electric guitars. Acoustic guitars have a soundhole to focus the acoustic energy of vibrating strings. Electric guitar have pickups, which are small magnets that sit underneath the strings. When a vibrating steel string moves against the magnet a small electrical signal is produced and sent throught the output jack. Electric guitars can have various combinations of pickups, some type of pickup selector switch to choose the pickup used and volume and/or tone controls for those pickups.
The bridge of the guitar is where the strings attach to the body. The saddle is the part of the bridge the string passes over.
Your basic six-string guitar. Play yours today!
Storm Stenvold
GuitarTeacher.com
Riff Interactive Lesson Archives
Some of you may know that I held live internet group lessons weekly between 2001 and 2003. Following is a repost of the links to those archives. Hopefully you can find something in these to keep your fret-fingers busy 
These lessons use the RiffLick plugin from Riff Interactive™. This browser plugin combined video clips, audio clips, graphics, chat, and looping jam tracks for play along study. It really is, still, one of the slickest lesson formats out there. Here is a screen shot:
Some of these archives are sold on CD-ROM, available for your off-line study at a reasonable price.
To view these Lessons Archives, you would need the following:
1. Computer with speakers.
2. Download Riff Interactive software for free. Once downloaded, click on any of the lesson links.
In my experience these archives run best on a Windows PC and Internet Explorer as your web browser.
Happy picking!
Storm Stenvold
GuitarTeacher.com
| Guitarists of Steely Dan | Walter Becker |
| Reggae & Ska Guitar | Modern Ska | |
| Reggae 7th Chords | ||
| Uptempo Reggae Grooves | ||
| Minor Keys, 16th Note Grooves | ||
| Shuffle Feel, Major Chords |
| Funk Guitar | ‘Hip-Hop’ 16ths, 12/8 Feels, Wah effects | |
| Minor Keys, ‘Skank’ Guitar | ||
| Single Note Lines, Chord Slides | ||
| 16th Note Rhythms |
| Holiday Guitar | ‘Auld Lang Syne’ | |
| ‘Silent Night’ | ||
| ‘Deck the Halls’ | ||
| ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ | ||
| ‘What Child Is This’ |
| Seattle Grunge Style | Candlebox | |
| Soundgarden | ||
| Nirvana | ||
| Pearl Jam | ||
| Alice in Chains |
| British Heavy Metal | Def Leppard | |
| Iron Maiden | ||
| Motorhead | ||
| Judas Priest | ||
| Deep Purple |
| Intervallic Guitar | Scale Interval Patterns | |
| Riffs + Harmony Guitar | ||
| Chord Scales + Interval Stacks | ||
| Diatonic & Chromatic Intervals | ||
| Intervals 101 |
| Blues Fundamentals | Blues Turnarounds |
| Jeff Beck Style | Part V | |
| Part IV | ||
| Part III | ||
| Part II | ||
| Part I |
| Beginning Classical Guitar | Part V - Greensleeves (Anonymous) | |
| Part IV- Andante II (Fernando Sor) | ||
| Part III - Minuet (J.S. Bach) | ||
| Part II - Romanza Part II | ||
| Part I - Romanza |
| Eddie Van Halen Style | Part V | |
| Part IV | ||
| Part III | ||
| Part II | ||
| Part I |
| Eric Clapton Style | Clapton: Acoustic/Fingerstyle | |
| Clapton: Solo Era | ||
| Clapton: Cream Era | ||
| Bluesbreakers: Early Clapton | ||
| 12-Bar Blues: Solo | ||
| Blues 101 |
| Rhythm Guitar Styles | Latin Guitar | |
| R & B Guitar | ||
| Reggae Guitar | ||
| Funk Guitar |
| Licks & Tricks | String Bending | |
| Harmonics |
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Developing Speed
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Tapping Techniques | |
| Legato Techniques | ||
| Sweep Picking | ||
| Alternate Picking Part 2 | ||
| Alternate Picking |
| Lead Guitar | Jazz Soloing | |
| Jazz-Rock Soloing | ||
| Blues Soloing | ||
| Metal Soloing | ||
| Melodic Rock Soloing |
| Modern Chords | Modern Open Chords | |
| Add and Sus Chords | ||
| Power Chords |
Latin Guitar Jam Track
Hey, six-stringers! In the change over to the new website format I know alot of the old content is now unavailable. I will repost old favorites as I can with plenty of new content to come!!
Today’s post is a looping jam track with a Santana flavor.
You can play standard rock and blues licks but the track’s use of the Fmaj7 chord strongly implies the Phrygian mode.
Instructions
1. Press play on the audio player above (Adobe Flash Player needed).
2. Solo over the backing track (audio will continuously loop).
Try this scale:
Other suggested scales:
- E Minor Pentatonic/E Blues
- E Phyrgian
- E Half-Step/Whole-Step Diminished Scale
Suggested Listening:
- Carlos Santana
- Al DiMeola
- Larry Carlton
- John McLaughlin
Have fun!
Storm Stenvold
GuitarTeacher.com
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