Full length Canon Rock Backing Tracks and looping Canon Rock jam tracks at original and slow tempos.
Hey guys! I have some private students working on 'Canon Rock' so here are some jam track resources for them and you.
The original JerryC full length backing tracking used by JerryC, FunTwo, MattRach, etc. is embedded below. You can download it to your computer
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The video/tab mashup I made for 'Canon Rock' is a popular post here on GuitarTeacher and on my
YouTube channel. Because the song uses super-sonic sweep picking, rapid position shifts and string-burning alternate picking, I often get requests to slow it down. So to help us mere mortals work toward getting the chops of FunTwo or JerryC here is my original video tab lesson ...
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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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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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A song that seems to get alot of requests on-stage and at backyard/campfire jams is "Wanted: Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi. This tune is a great rock anthem with some very cool arpeggio picking guitar parts
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4IuL-EZrIE
The tabs are in the video (full and 1/2 speed, how cool!) but here they are for your off-video practice.
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It's nearly 15 years since the death of guitarist/songwriter Kurt Cobain but the music of Nirvana still influences almost every 'alternative' rock group to this day. Great songwriting, great voice and a great riff writer. This video guitar lesson shows how to play Nirvana's "About A Girl", the MTV Unplugged "Live in New York" version.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeERl0DhBKo
On the video I first run through the parts ...
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Jimi Hendrix influenced how we think of and play the guitar more than anyone in history. In homage to him check out the intro and verse guitar parts to the Hendrix classic "Purple Haze", from his first album "Are You Experienced".
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hbZSRRLjI4
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If you like this lesson and want to dig in on this song or Jimi in general, consider taking ...
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Here is a fun backing track for your endless-jamming pleasure. It is a rock shuffle jam in the key of A.
The chord progression is: |A - - - | G/A - - - |D/A - - - |A - - -| . The way to read 'G/A' is 'G over A' and means a G chord is played with an A bass note. Essentially the ...
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I believe arpeggios to be some of the most beautiful sounds we can produce on the guitar. The word 'arpeggio' simply means broken chord. On the guitar, the notes of a chord can be played in a melodic fashion (think of the beginning melody to 'The Star-Spangled Banner') or in a chordal fashion where the notes overlap and ring together. The latter is common in ...
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Hey Guitar Players,
This latest website page is a test of a new video template I plan to use for upcoming guitar lessons. The video shows how to play the opening riff to Cream's "Sunshine Of Your Love". Cream featured, of course, Eric Clapton.
The video features both full-speed and half-speed versions of the parts shown. In an overlay within the video I show full tablature (with ...
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