Archive for the ‘Video’ Category

I recently saw the movie "It Might Get Loud" featuring Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), The Edge (U2) and Jack White (White Stripes/The Raconteurs). In the movie Jimmy Page digs through his mammoth vinyl collection and plays some favorite songs, one of which was Link Wray's "Rumble". This song was also famously featured in "Pulp Fiction". It is a classic instrumental and a real easy song, ... View Lesson

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 ... View Lesson

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 ... View Lesson

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 ... View Lesson

I have to laugh at my profession getting skewered in the following two clips from YouTube! You do know there are good guitar teachers on YouTube, right? The Guitar Lesson httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK7UHJC0WY4 Hot Guitar in 5 minutes with Bernie Burns httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_yhKFXxXqU View Lesson

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 ... View Lesson

Click the play button below for a smoldering slow shuffle jam track in C minor. This guitar solo backing tracking is featured on my Jeff Beck Style lesson download from Riff Interactive. Jeff Beck is an all-time Hall of Fame guitarist with a career spanning more than 40 years. His tone and phrasing are instantly recognizable and he is one of my favorites. This backing track ... View Lesson

This video lesson features a mashup I made combining the video tablature lesson format featured here at GuitarTeacher.com and the most watched guitar video in YouTube history! Korean guitarist 'funtwo' performes the arrangement of "Canon Rock" by Taiwanese guitarist JerryC, a rocking take off of classical standard "Pachelbel's Canon in D". I added the in-video guitar tab and animated guitar neck on top using ... View Lesson

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 ... View Lesson

Rock music will live forever! I know this because it readily accepts other music styles and fuzes them together to create ever evolving rock hybrids. Jazz-Rock, Country-Rock, Blues-Rock, Rap-Rock. The list will keep evolving. This looping jam track in B minor takes techno/electronic music elements and fuses them with a rock feel. This jam track is taken off of my Jeff Beck Style lesson series. ... View Lesson