Guitar Tricks
October 2006


Welcome to Guitar Tricks. We have over 3000 multimedia guitar lessons. 
367 of them are beginner lessons. Each individual lesson is designed by 
one of over 47 guitar instructors that contribute to our site. 

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1) Spanish Lick played Slow and Fast!  -   Dr. Marako Marcus 
Play with Feel and Finesse! Solid beginner to intermediate guitar 
lessons. Learn through rock, blues and exotic tricks from a guitar 
instructor in Singapore.

Here is a mixture of Spanish and Metal put together... Pretty cool 
especially if you go faster and faster! Of course, please use it 
depending on the type of music you are playing. You can use alternate 
picking for this lick.

I've recorded two versions. One slow, and then fast.

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2) Hammer-On/Pull-Off Exercise -  Kevin Taylor
Beginner to advanced video lessons in all styles. 
Specializing in Two-Handed Tapping, Guitar Synth and Digital/Multitrack 
Recording. 

This is a simple little warm up exercise for doing 
Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs. 
For the best results, use your right hand palm to slightly mute the 
bottom strings. 
You can alternate between using your pinky or third finger if you 
like... once your pinky starts to tire out, switch over to your third 
finger.
This exercise also helps a little with accuracy, because it's a little 
hard to quickly move down to the bottom G string each time.

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3) Basic Rock Riff 14 - - Nick Marchant 
Easy Rock Riff lessons for beginners , Blues Slide Guitar lessons, 
Spanish Style Lead Tutorial plus a fresh look at Chords for acoustic 
players.

A great Jimi Hendrix intro riff using an E pentatonic scale at the 5th 
fret and 7th fret positions
( if you don't know these 'boxes' already find them on the site and 
learn them )

This riff uses pulloffs (p) and one hammer-on (h)- use first and third 
fingers throughout.

The 2 beats marked x in the tab are "dead stringing".This is where you 
hold your left hand on all 6 strings without pressing down on the frets 
to get a dead sound. Jimi Hendrix used this technique a lot especially 
with wah-wah.

You need to set the player to loop to hear this properly 

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4) Easy Fingerstyle Jazz 1  -  Bobby Howe (VIDEO LESSON)
Guitar teacher from Illinois specializing in fingerstyle guitar.

This is a great way to get into fingerstyle jazz with a very simple 
progression that uses simplified jazz chords. 

Remember, these are simplified chords--no fifth is used in this example 
just root, major or minor third and dominant or major seventh. Also 
true, the diminished chords are not fully diminished (only three notes) 
but for the purposes here, they serve the need just fine.

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5) Harmonized G scale on strings 6 and 4 - Gavin Audagnotti (VIDEO 
LESSON)
Jazz, played with a Chord - Melody approach for beginner, intermediate 
and advanced players.

Knowledge of the guitar fingerboard is one of the most important skills 
to have in order to develop a range in your playing. Without this 
know-how you are limited to playing only the chords and licks you have 
learned. You can't visualize where to go next or how to improvise and if 
you make a mistake you are lost.

Understanding the fingerboard or organizing the fretboard is what this 
tutorial is about. Using the G major scale you will play a major 10th 
interval (a 2 note interval) on the 6/4 strings, 5//2 strings and 4/1 
strings.

You will follow each step of the scale in a horizontal direction and 
also in a vertical direction As you move horizontally along each scale 
step the major 10 interval is actually playing (harmonizing) the G major 
scale on different strings 

Although this tutorial is in the jazz section, it really is the basis 
for all styles of guitar playing. Jazz players have to know how to move 
chords, scales and licks horizontally and vertically around the 
fingerboard - now if we can apply these same ideas to rock, blues, funk 
etc., you will see a vast improvement in your ability to play anywhere 
on the fingerboard.

The first exercise plays the G major scale on strings 6 and 4 ascending. 
I use my 2nd and 3rd finger for ease of switching between scales steps. 
Memorize this so that you don't need to use the video. Play the scale 
ascending and descending. Transpose it into other keys but stay on the 6 
and 4 strings. If you start on F simply move the whole sequence 2 frets 
down from the key of G.

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6) SLOW BLUES IN G Lick-1