Jam Bands like The Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic are known for awesome, extended improv sections and solos. The free jam tracks here on GuitarTeacher.com are perfect vehicles for practicing your own extended solos, awesome or otherwise! So today I am pairing a jam track with the jam band. For your noodling pleasure, a Latin/Rock/Samba/Blues/Wait-For-My-Cue-Before-Ending-My Solo/Jam Band jam track.
This track vamps groovily between C ...
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When you play in a lot of cover bands (guilty as charged) you discover some riffs that always get a good crowd reaction. ZZ Top's "La Grange" is one of those riffs. Learn it and channel Billy Gibbons channeling John Lee Hooker in an all-time blues-rock boogie classic.
La Grange also is a great jam night song ...
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This jam track is an upbeat shuffle, B.B. King style 12-Bar Blues in the key of G. If you want to jump in and just jam, go for it! Locate your favorite G blues scale pattern, click the play button below and wail away!
The following short video shows the backing guitar parts so you can play the jam track yourself. It might help you out the ...
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Some lead guitar licks you hear over and over again. These licks are clichés and they are valuable to have under your fingers. Just like their verbal cliché cousins, tried-and-true sayings (such as "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush") these licks can quickly get over used but they get over used because they work.
The following 10 Early Rock licks work ...
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In the following video guitar lesson I show the opening riff and main guitar parts for "Get On Your Boots" from the new U2 album 'No Line On The Horizon'. The lesson includes both full and half speed versions and an explanation of the parts shown. If "Vertigo", the first single from U2's last album, is any indication, get ready to hear this new U2 ...
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When I started playing guitar and first learned barre chords, I thought using a capo was "cheating". "Shouldn't everyone learn how to play an F chord or C# minor?", I thought. While this is surely true, I now realize that the sound you get by using open strings is such a beautiful tone that understanding and ...
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Back in 1980, I bought my very first record album from Tower Records (remember them?) in San Francisco. It was "Blizzard Of Ozz" by Ozzy Osbourne. I don't really know why I bought that album. The cover kind of freaked me out and I don't think I even knew who Black Sabbath was at the time. Regardless of my sheltered childhood I fortunately purchased one ...
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Jimmy Page is the greatest riff writer in the history of rock, IMO. I firmly believe in studying the greats so in homage to Jimmy and Led Zeppelin check out the guitar parts to "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You", from the album "Led Zeppelin I".
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcaR8hKSQxw
If you like this lesson and want to dig in on this song or Led Zeppelin in general, consider ...
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Not having an early rock 'Chuck Berry' style jam track on GuitarTeacher.com is a serious oversight. Well, now that is corrected with the following 'Early Rock Jam Track', in the key of A no less! The form is a standard 12-Bar blues with a straight eighth-note feel.
If you don't know how to solo over this I will help you out with an upcoming 'Early Rock ...
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Hey Six-Stringers. Happy New Year, 2009! To help ring in the new year on the right note I present a chord melody arrangement for "Auld Lang Syne". This is re-posted from my
Holiday Guitar Series available from Riff Interactive. I have also posted a playable tab file to Songsterr.com that should be easily found if you search for 'Guitar Teacher dot com' (edit: ...
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