Guitar Tips

Playing guitar solos using the Minor Scale (part1)

2010-07-19T07:12:00.000-07:00

In yet another lesson kindly supplied by Dan Denley from his flagship guitar lessons course -Amazing Guitar Secrets - Dan shows you how to use the notes from the Minor Scale, initially focussing on the 'natural minor' scale, and expanding on this to the 'harmonic minor scale'. Dan explains the constructs of the minor scale, and shows you some examples of playing both natural and harmonic minor scales. Of course this is just a short extract, you will learn much more about minor scales in the course itself.

This is another mini-lesson taken from the Amazing Guitar Secrets multimedia course which uses video, audio and animation, with everything backed up in print on the course handbook, to improve your understanding of the concepts of what you are playing. You learn the actual technique from an expert teacher - one who is always on hand, is focussed on your progression, never gets annoyed at having to repeat things over and over, plus you don't have to travel to lessons, and you learn based on your own schedule and time availability!

This guitar tip is almost 8 minutes long, but learning the minor scales is a vital part of the guitar learning process, well worth taking a few minutes in your day to acquire a new understanding and a new technique to help you on your guitar journey.

If the video above doesn't play, click on Dan Denley - The Minor Scale (part 1)

If you're serious about learning guitar, the link to the course is below:

Amazing Guitar Secrets

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

Techniques for improving your guitar sound - Palm Muting

2010-07-19T06:42:00.000-07:00

Some guitar techniques actually don't require any reals musical knowledge or training whatsover!

In this video lesson, taken from Dan Denleys original and probably most popular guitar lessons course -Amazing Guitar Secrets - Dan shows you how to use the technique of 'Muting' ( i.e. shutting down the sound ) what you are playing by the application of your palm to the fretboard.

This creates great 'stop' phrases within your solo, which serve to accentuate what you are playing, and the progression from one solo phrase to the next.

This is just a short extract from the Amazing Guitar Secrets course which uses multimedia ( sound, visuals, video clips etc ) plus tab and tuition workbooks to give you everthing you need to achieve your guitar playing targets in an easy-to-learn environment - the comfort of your own home, with the ability to watch each lesson as many times as you need to, pause and replay any parts you didn't quite catch, and of course choose your own time schedule for learning.

After watching and absorbing this extract from the course, which is 3m09s long, you will have added another technique to your guitar playing armoury.

If the video above doesn't play, click on Dan Denley - Palm Muting lesson

If you're serious about learning guitar, the link to the course is below:

Amazing Guitar Secrets

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

Techniques for improving your guitar sound - Vibrato

2010-05-09T15:00:00.000-07:00

This video is taken from Dan Denleys original and probably most popular guitar lessons course -Amazing Guitar Secrets - which uses multimedia ( video, audio, Flash ) plus tabs and tuition to give you everthing you need to become an accomplished guitar player in a format which makes learning easy.

This mini-lesson ( about 3 mins ) shows you how to use Vibrato at various levels to create that real 'rock star' sound.

If the video above doesn't play, click on THIS LINK

Dan has a built up an astounding library of courses which will teach you every aspect of guitar playing, including AmazingGuitarSecrets, BluesGuitar Secrets, AcousticGuitarSecrets and LeadGuitarSecrets. You can see Dan's passion for his teaching in every video lesson, this guy really wants to help you succeed, and his courses are presented in a format which will help you do just that!

If you'd like to find out more, the link to the course is below:

Amazing Guitar Secrets

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

Techniques for improving your guitar sound - Bends

2010-05-09T14:51:00.000-07:00

This video is taken from Dan Denleys flagship guitar lessons course -Amazing Guitar Secrets - which will teach you, using video, audio, tab and instruction, everthing you need to become an accomplished guitar player.

This mini-lesson is a short excerpt of the section of the course where Dan takes you through the processes involved in embelishing your sound, i.e. 'Hammer-on", "Hammer-off", "Slide", and in this 6 minute extract, how to use bends, half-bends and quarter-bends.

If the video above doesn't play, click on THIS LINK

Dan has a wealth of guitar learning programs teaching you about every aspect of guitar playing, including AmazingGuitarSecrets, BluesGuitar Secrets, AcousticGuitarSecrets and LeadGuitarSecrets. Dan is commited to teaching a new generation the joys of guitar playing, and is constantly working on new learning methods, to cover all aspects and genres of guitar playing.

If you'd like to find out more, the link to the course is below:

Amazing Guitar Secrets

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

Guitar Chords Progressions - Rock Progressions

2010-03-01T08:33:00.000-08:00

This video is taken from Dan Denleys fantastic new Ultimate Guide to Chords course, which opens up the whole area of guitar theory, and music theory, and explains in easy to grasp terms what each "building block" is, and how to learn them and use them to construct real guitar music.

You will learn a huge wealth of chords, scales, strumming patterns, and because Dan will show you the 'why' as well as the 'how', your learning speed will be hugely increased. There are 9 hours of video instruction alone, and that's just for starters!

This mini-lesson is a short excerpt of the section of the course where Dan explains the concepts of Rock chord progressions, and how you can have fun taking a progression, change the key, change the sequence, add/remove a chord from the pattern to create your own riffs, and set you on the road to writing your own music.

If the video above doesn't play, click on THIS LINK

Dan has a wealth of guitar learning programs teaching you about every aspect of guitar playing, including AmazingGuitarSecrets, BluesGuitar Secrets, AcousticGuitarSecrets and LeadGuitarSecrets. Dan is commited to teaching a new generation the joys of guitar playing, and is constantly working on new learning methods, to cover all aspects and genres of guitar playing.

If you'd like to find out more, the link to the course is below:

Ultimate Guide to Chords

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

pjmurphy@guitarsongs.info

Ragtime Guitar Lessons: Blind Blake Style #2 by Jim Bruce

2010-03-01T07:45:00.000-08:00

Just before Christmas I posted the first of Jim Bruce's Blind Blake style Ragtime Blues lessons.

Judging by the feedback, there is a lot more interest for this genre of music than I'd expected, so I've asked Jim if he can help out my subscribers, and he has again kindly supplied another video Ragtime Blues lesson.

If you missed out on the first one, it's at Jim Bruce Ragtime Blues Lesson #1 .

Jim Bruce has an entire course on learning the Blind Blake style of Ragtime Blues Guitar, Jim both plays and teaches this really catchy style with extreme professionalism and enthusiasm.

This video clip is a longer "taster" mini-lesson ( just under 9 mins )featuring Blake's "Southern Rag" in C, "Come on Boys" in G, and "Down the Country", best played in open D tuning. Following from the previous lesson, you'll get a greater understanding of the techniques in producing this really uplifting ragtime sound - many of these can be redeployed in other Blues/Blues-rock genres, so whatever your brand of music, this is 9 minutes well spent! I think you'll love it!

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If you like what you heard, and would love to be able to create this unique sound yourself, check out the course at the link below:

Blind Blake Ragtime Guitar Lessons course

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Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

pjmurphy@guitarsongs.info

Guitar Lesson from Chris Elmore, Webcast from Moeraes Fate

2009-12-18T15:29:00.000-08:00

Hi!

If you love playing your guitar but ...

- Are confused with all the scales you see and don't really
understand them?

- Struggling to change the chords quickly?

- Don't understand the pentatonic scales?

- Can't work out how to use the scales and move around from scale to scale?

Then check out Chris Elmore's latest site at:
http://www.guitartips.com.au/cgibin/affiliates/click.cgi?id=173&url=http://www.guitartips.com.au/scale-mastery-course/

You're going to love what we've he's designed for you. Check out the free stuff, If you're impressed sign up for the courses. Chris has been a regular contributor of tips and lessons to my newsletter and blogs for almost 10 years now, he understands the needs of learners, and is a natural teacher.

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I also wanted to let you know of a great event happening on Sunday 20th, on www.imagefm.ca, at 4pm Eastern Time, 9pm GMT. ( Check time for for your zone ).

Having joined MySpace and Facebook several years ago, I have hundreds of band on my friend lists. Of all of these, one Canadian band, "Dame", a progressive-power-pop female trio from Toronto really stood out and sparked my interest almost 2 years ago.

Back in August they won Canada's YouDiscover.ca Band of the Year, beating hundreds of really good bands along the way. Among their prizes were a recording contract, and a fabulous gig supporting Styx for a televised New Years Eve special from Niagara Falls.

In the course of the recording arrangements, there was a name change to "Moeraes Fate" ( Greek legend reference ).

So this Sunday you can watch the band play and celebrate the festive season at their Christmas Special on ImageFm.ca. I'm reliably informed they will be sticking to a Christmas theme, so there should be some fun and frolics.

I wouldn't normally stick my neck out, but I think these girls can be part of the future of Rock Music, which is in sad decline right now. You can check out samples of the songs from their new recording on their MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/moeraesfateband

Set your reminders! Start time is at 4pm Eastern Time, so adjust to your time zone accordingly - it will be 9pm here in Ireland (GMT).

See you there!

PJ

Ragtime Guitar Lessons - Blind Blake lesson by Jim Bruce

2009-11-30T09:32:00.000-08:00

I thought I'd spice up the Guitar Tips blog a little by adding some lessons and tips from some of the more 'niche' areas.

Now I know not everyone will aspire to being a 'full-time' Ragtime Blues player, but it is a style that almost everyone really likes, and a neat addition to any guitar player's repertoire, whether you mainly play, rock, blues, acoustic - whatever.

Jim Bruce has an entire course on learning the Blind Blake style of Ragtime Blues Guitar, Jim both plays and teaches this really catchy style with extreme professionalism and enthusiasm.

This video clip is just a taster (5m.02s) to fill you in on what Ragtime Blues ( a la Blake ) should sound like, and how to begin learning the style. I think you'll love it!

If you like what you heard, and want to be able to amaze your friends with this superb skill, you can find out more about this great course at the link below:

Blind Blake Ragtime Guitar Lessons course

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Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

pjmurphy@guitarsongs.info

Secrets to composing Songs ( part 3) - Dan Denley

2009-11-30T09:15:00.000-08:00

This is the final part of a 3-part trilogy of videos from Dan's Amazing Guitar Secrets course, designed to open up some 'insider secrets' on some simple but effective ways of composing songs.

Dan starts out with a basic E chord, but by adding distortion, rhythm and changing one finger position to end the riff on an A minor 6th. And that's just for starters. Watch this video ( parts 1 and 2 are also available here on my Guitar Tips blog ) and pick up some really neat and simple tricks for creating those 'big rock band' sounds.

Dan has a whole bunch of fantastic guitar learning programs, including AmazingGuitarSecrets, BluesGuitar Secrets, AcousticGuitarSecrets and LeadGuitarSecrets and is always working to improve and upgrade them, as well as periodically developing new lessons covering yet another area of guitar music.

His flagship product - AmazingGuitarSecrets, which has helped literally thousands of guitar players to realize their potential, covers all aspects of guitar playing, from early learning right up to live performance.

In this three-part lesson Dan shows you some great techniques to help you with your songwriting - basically using the standared CAGED chords, but embellishing them to get that 'special' sound. The video below is part 3 of the lesson (8m.45s) - Parts 1 and 2 are the previous posts on this Guitar Tips Blog.

I hope you will enjoy and benefit from Dan's expertise, the link to the course is below:

Amazing Guitar Secrets - Comprehensive lessons program covering everything from the basics to advanced lead techniques

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Dan has very recently released this fantastic new resource, Blues Guitar Secrets 2.0, which contains everything you could possibly need to help you become an accomplished Blues Guitar Player.

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

pjmurphy@guitarsongs.info

Secrets to Composing Songs (Part 2) - Dan Denley

2009-10-26T09:41:00.000-07:00

Another video lesson from Dan Denley - "Secrets of Composing Songs, part 2 of 3 )

Dan has a whole bunch of fantastic guitar learning programs, including AmazingGuitarSecrets, BluesGuitar Secrets, AcousticGuitarSecrets and LeadGuitarSecrets and is always working to improve and upgrade them, as well as periodically developing new lessons covering yet another area of guitar music.

His flagship product - AmazingGuitarSecrets, which has helped literally thousands of guitar players to realize their potential, covers all aspects of guitar playing, from early learning right up to live performance.

In this three-part lesson Dan shows you some great techniques to help you with your songwriting - basically using the standared CAGED chords, but embellishing them to get that 'special' sound. Check out the video below, which is part 2 of the lesson (7m.53s) - Part 1 is the previous post on this Guitar Tips Blog - I will be posting part 3 very soon!

I hope you will enjoy and benefit from Dan's expertise, the link to the course is below:

Amazing Guitar Secrets - Comprehensive lessons program covering everything from the basics to advanced lead techniques

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Dan has very recently released this fantastic new resource, Blues Guitar Secrets 2.0, which contains everything you could possibly need to help you become an accomplished Blues Guitar Player.

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

pjmurphy@guitarsongs.info

Secrets to Composing Songs ( Part 1 ) - Dan Denley

2009-10-26T09:19:00.000-07:00

Another video lesson from Dan Denley.

Dan has a whole bunch of fantastic guitar learning programs, including AmazingGuitarSecrets, BluesGuitar Secrets, AcousticGuitarSecrets and LeadGuitarSecrets and is always working to improve and upgrade them, as well as periodically developing new lessons covering yet another area of guitar music.

His flagship product - AmazingGuitarSecrets, which has helped literally thousands of guitar players to realize their potential, covers all aspects of guitar playing, from early learning right up to live performance.

In this lesson, which is suitable for guitar players at all levels ( you do need to know the basic chords of course), Dan shows you some great techniques to help you with your songwriting - basically using the standared CAGED chords, but embellishing them to get that 'special' sound. Check out the video below, which is part 1 of the lesson (7m.30s) - I'll be posting the second and third parts very soon!

I hope you will enjoy and benefit from Dan's expertise, the link to the course is below:

Amazing Guitar Secrets - Comprehensive lessons program covering everything from the basics to advanced lead techniques

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Dan has very recently released this fantastic new resource, Blues Guitar Secrets 2.0, which contains everything you could possibly need to help you become an accomplished Blues Guitar Player.

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

pjmurphy@guitarsongs.info

Guitar Chords Progressions by Dan Denley

2009-09-30T12:18:00.000-07:00

This video is taken from Dan Denleys fantastic new Ultimate Guide to Chords course, which brings you into the world of guitar and music theory, and explains in layman terms what the building blocks are, and how to use them in playing and creating music.

You will learn a huge wealth of chords, scales, strumming patterns, and because Dan will show you the 'why' as well as the 'how', your learning speed will be hugely increased. There are 9 hours of video instruction alone, and that's just for starters!

This particular example has Dan explaining the concept, and teaching the playing of an 8-bar minor blues progression.

If the video above doesn't play, click on THIS LINK

Dan has a wealth of guitar learning programs teaching you about every aspect of guitar playing, including AmazingGuitarSecrets, BluesGuitar Secrets, AcousticGuitarSecrets and LeadGuitarSecrets. Dan is a fanatic and is always working on a new targetted course, or on new and improved versions of existing courses.

If you'd like to find out more, the link to the course is below:

Ultimate Guide to Chords

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

pjmurphy@guitarsongs.info

How to solo with just THREE STRINGS!

2009-07-16T08:48:00.000-07:00

Dan Denley is launching his Blues Guitar 2.0 course later today - at 3pm Eastern Time, 8pm GMT to be precise. Dan has been a great friend and regular contributor to my Guitar Tips Blog, and has supplied a few useful mini-lessons as 'teasers' from the new course. Each lesson will be of benefit in it's own right, and will give you an idea what to expect from Blues Guitar 2.0.

Dan has a wealth of guitar learning programs teaching you about every aspect of guitar playing, including AmazingGuitarSecrets, BluesGuitar Secrets, AcousticGuitarSecrets and LeadGuitarSecrets. Dan is a fanatic and is always working on a new targetted course, or on new and improved versions of existing courses.

This lesson is taken from DVD 4 of an astounding 9 DVD course set - it's a multimedia course, with video, sound clips, tabs and of course a comprehensive instruction manual following all of the lessons.

Here Dan shows you how you can play impressive solos, in a Pentatonic Minor scale, using just you top 3 Guitar strings.

This mini-lesson is a preview from the soon-to-be-released BluesGuitar Secrets 2.0 , from DVD1 of a staggering 9 DVDs! The tabs for the video can be downloaded from THIS LINK

I know all blues players will enjoy the lesson, if you'd like to find out more, the link to the course is below:

Blues Guitar Secrets - Comprehensive lessons program for guitar players who want to play Blues.

PS - Scroll down below for 2 more fantastic mini-lessons from Blues Guitar Secrets 2.0

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

pjmurphy@guitarsongs.info

Ragtime Acoustic Blues Lesson

2009-07-07T11:08:00.000-07:00

Another guitar lesson taken from Dan Denley's Blues Guitar Secrets 2.0 course, which goes live at 3pm Eastern time, 8pm GMT ( 3 hours from the time of this post ) this one from DVD 9 ( Yes there are NINE DVDs full of Blues guitar lessons, as well as backing tracks on CD, the tabs for the lessons and, of course the comprehensive tutorial manual to accompany all of the multimedia lessons..

Dan has a wealth of guitar learning programs teaching you about every aspect of guitar playing, including AmazingGuitarSecrets, BluesGuitar Secrets, AcousticGuitarSecrets and LeadGuitarSecrets. Dan is a fanatic and is always working on a new targetted course, or on new and improved versions of existing courses.

He is shortly to launch version 2.0 of his Blues course ( BluesGuitar Secrets 2.0 ) and has kindly supplied me with an short extract from the course to include in this Guitar Tips Blog.

This mini-lesson is a variation on standard blues, showing you how to incorporate a Ragtime flavour into your blues playing. It's fun, it's easy to learn, and the kind of party piece which will always be well appreciated! Once again, it's from BluesGuitar Secrets 2.0 , from DVD 9. The tabs for the video can be downloaded from THIS LINK

I hope you will enjoy and benefit from Dan's expertise, the link to the course is below:

Blues Guitar Secrets - Comprehensive lessons program for guitar players who want to play Blues.

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Dan has very recently released this fantastic new resource, Lead Guitar Secrets, which contains everything you could possibly need to help you become an accomplished Lead Guitar Player.

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

pjmurphy@guitarsongs.info

Standard 12 Bar Blues Lesson

2009-07-03T08:27:00.000-07:00

Dan Denley has been a regular contributor to this Guitar Tips blog since Day 1.

Dan has a wealth of guitar learning programs teaching you about every aspect of guitar playing, including AmazingGuitarSecrets, BluesGuitar Secrets, AcousticGuitarSecrets and LeadGuitarSecrets. Dan is a fanatic and is always working on a new targetted course, or on new and improved versions of existing courses.

Later today - at 3pm Eastern Time, 8pm GMT, he is launching version 2.0 of his Blues course ( BluesGuitar Secrets 2.0 ) and has kindly supplied me with an short extract from the course to include in this Guitar Tips Blog.

Every guitar player knows that the 12 Bar Blues is an essential part of the guitarists armoury - almost every session, open mic night etc. you attend will at some point feature a medley of 12 Bar blues songs. They are uplifting, crowd-pleasing, and they allow other musicians to show off their soloing skills while the rhythm guitarist keeps things humming with the good ol' 12-Bar blues riffs!

This mini-lesson is a preview from the soon-to-be-released BluesGuitar Secrets 2.0 , from DVD1 of a staggering 9 DVDs! The tabs for the video can be downloaded from THIS LINK

I hope you will enjoy and benefit from Dan's expertise, the link to the course is below:

Blues Guitar Secrets - Comprehensive lessons program for guitar players who want to play Blues.

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Dan has very recently released this fantastic new resource, Lead Guitar Secrets, which contains everything you could possibly need to help you become an accomplished Lead Guitar Player.

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

pjmurphy@guitarsongs.info

Practice Tips for Lead Guitar Players

2009-07-02T09:11:00.000-07:00

Thanks (again!) to Dan Denley, who has been a major contributor to this Guitar Tips blog since it was launched

Dan has a wealth of guitar learning programs teaching you about every aspect of guitar playing, including AmazingGuitarSecrets, BluesGuitar Secrets, AcousticGuitarSecrets and LeadGuitarSecrets. Dan is a fanatic and is always working on a new targetted course, or on new and improved versions of existing courses.

He is shortly to launch version 2.0 of his Blues course ( BluesGuitar Secrets 2.0 ) and has given me permission to release some 'sneak previews' to my Blog readers. These short video clips fit in perfectly with my own aim for this Blog of providing short but helpful articles and lessons covering as many areas of guitar playing as possible, and catering for all levels of ability. So, while these 'mini-lessons' will give you a taster of what Dan's course can do for you, they are in themselves very useful tips.

This one is taken from DVD2 of the LeadGuitarSecrets course, and shows you three different rhythming patterns to use while practicing your scales. We all know that scales practice is a crucial,but not the most exciting part of being a guitar player, so any tips for keeping it interesting have got to be worth hearing!

I hope you will enjoy and benefit from Dan's expertise, the link to the course is below:

Blues Guitar Secrets - Comprehensive lessons program for guitar players who want to play Blues.

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Dan has very recently released this fantastic new resource, Lead Guitar Secrets, which contains everything you could possibly need to help you become an accomplished Lead Guitar Player.

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

pjmurphy@guitarsongs.info

Blues Guitar Chord progressions - D minor

2009-06-30T10:08:00.000-07:00

Dan Denley has again kindly provided another video guitar lesson for my Blog readers. Dan has a whole bunch of fantastic guitar learning programs, including AmazingGuitarSecrets, BluesGuitar Secrets, AcousticGuitarSecrets and LeadGuitarSecrets and is always working to improve and upgrade them, as well as periodically developing new lessons covering yet another area of guitar music.

This lesson is taken from DVD 5 (Blues Guitar Progressions) of his Ultimate Guide to Chords course, a fully comprehensive learning program which gets you to understand the REASONS for playing particular chord patterns, or why a particular scale is suited for playing lead over a chord sequence. For me, this course bridges the gap between theory and practice which has always been my difficulty. The split videos ( showing both fretting and chording hands close-up ), along with the audio samples and tabs for each lesson, and the textual instruction from the manuals really bring it all together in a manner which is relevant to how you play guitar in the REAL world.

This mini-lesson is a short extract from Ultimate Guide to Chords showing how you can transform certain chord patterns just by changing tempo, and slightly adjusting the format of the dominant key - in this example he slows down a Dm7 chord set, switching the Dm7 for a Dm9, producing a really nice minor blues sequence.

Once again the video is split to show both the picking and the chording hands simultaneously in close-up.

I am sure you will find this lesson useful, and it should give you just a taster of what is available from the course:

Ultimate Guide to Chords - Comprehensive lessons program for guitar players who want to understand chord and scales theory

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

pjmurphy@guitarsongs.info

Guitar Chord Progressions

2009-06-30T08:50:00.000-07:00

Another video lesson from Dan Denley. Dan has a whole bunch of fantastic guitar learning programs, including AmazingGuitarSecrets, BluesGuitar Secrets, AcousticGuitarSecrets and LeadGuitarSecrets and is always working to improve and upgrade them, as well as periodically developing new lessons covering yet another area of guitar music.

He has recently released his latest learning resource - Ultimate Guide to Chords, which, for me, is the definitive learning program for understanding chord theory, how chords relate to scales AND how to put this into practice to improve your playing. I am honoured that he has once again selected this Guitar Tips blog to preview his Ultimate Guide to Chords .

The preview is a short lesson (just over 7 minutes) on video explaining, using the Roman Numeral System, how to harmonize guitar chords with any scale being played, and how to figure which scales should be played for any guitar chord progression.

When you see guitar players who can seemingly effortlessly sit in on a session, and play hot licks along with the chords being played, there is usually nothing instinctive about this, but a whole background of chord and scales theory learning, leading up to this ability.

This lesson ( 7m 13s) takes the C major and minor scales, shows the differentiation between the scale notes played for each, and shows how these notes can be played right across the fretboard. It then shows how to transpose what you've learned to the other keys.

Once again the video is split to show both the picking and the chording hands simultaneously in close-up.

I hope you will enjoy and benefit from Dan's expertise, the link to the course is below:

Ultimate Guide to Chords - Comprehensive lessons program for guitar players who want to understand chord and scales theory

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Dan has very recently released this fantastic new resource, Blues Guitar Secrets 2.0, which contains everything you could possibly need to help you become an accomplished Blues Guitar Player.

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

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Chordie - The missing links!

2009-06-09T02:42:00.001-07:00

Those of you who regularly use Chordie will have seen frequent
messages for several songs indicating that "The person hosting
these songs has asked them to be removed from the Chordie index"

Apologies, but I am that person! I'm sorry if you've been frustrated
by seeing these messages instead of your requested song chords, but
permission was never given to Chordie to use these songs, and they
have graciously removed them at my request. I would have preferred if
they had instead replaced their pages with links to my original
transcriptions, but this was unfortunately not possible.

Anywaze, you can find all 1,800 of 'em at PJ's Guitar Chords and
Lyrics - http://www.guitarsongs.info/. Or just search for PJs
Chords. While there are many 'warehouse' song chord and tab sites out
there, my site is based on accurate chord interpretations of an
eclectic selection of my favourite songs and artists from the 60's
right up to songs in the current charts.

P.J. Murphy
webmaster: PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics - http://www.guitarsongs.info/

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String Skipping for Guitar Speed

2009-05-31T16:56:00.000-07:00

Thanks again to Chris Elmore of Elmore Music for another fascinating mini-lesson.

Chris shows in video, sound and tab, how to create lead patterns with unexpected wide leaps, which creates a turbo-speed sound that makes people sit up and listen!

Check out this mini-lesson at the link below:

Chris Elmore - Explore the World of Chords to become a Balanced Musician!

Enjoy your music!

P.J. Murphy
webmaster: PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics - http://www.guitarsongs.info/

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Guitar Lessons+Guitar Tips+DVD Lessons

Explore the World of Chords

2009-05-31T16:28:00.000-07:00

This mini-lesson was kindly supplied by Chris Elmore, of Elmore Music. Chris recognizes that many players who see themselves as 'Lead Guitarists', tend to underestimate the need to learn and use chords, and the power they can add to a lead guitarists performance.

Check out this mini-lesson at the link below:

Chris Elmore - Explore the World of Chords to become a Balanced Musician!

Enjoy your music!

How To Play a Blues Solo

2009-04-03T10:10:00.000-07:00

The tabs to accompany this video can be located HERE (PDF takes a few seconds to load) ( Right-click and select 'download link as..' to save the tabs to your PC. There are also audio Jam tracks for the Rhythm and Solo parts. Click on the links - or you can right-click and 'Save As' to save them to your computer.

I hope you will enjoy and benefit from Dan's expertise, the link to the course is below:

Blues Guitar Secrets - Comprehensive lessons program for guitar players who want to play Blues.

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Dan has very recently released this fantastic new resource, Blues Guitar Secrets 2.0, which contains everything you could possibly need to help you become an accomplished Blues Guitar Player.

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
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pjmurphy@guitarsongs.info

Learning Strumming Patterns

2009-03-09T10:09:00.000-07:00

Dan Denley, the mastermind behind THE greatest and most comprehensive online learning programs: AmazingGuitarSecrets, BluesGuitar Secrets, and LeadGuitarSecrets has kindly agreed to supply a sneak preview of his just-released new resource AcousticGuitarSecrets for my Guitar Tips Blog ( Thanks Dan! )

This is a video clip ( plus tab ) showing how to deploy different strumming patterns, which is a question I am often asked by early learners. The video is cleverly split to show both the strumming and the chording hands simultaneously in close-up.

Tab for

this video

More info...

The tabs to accompany this video can be located HERE ( Right-click and select 'download link as..' to save the tabs to your PC.

I hope you will enjoy and benefit from Dan's expertise, the link to the course is below:

Acoustic Guitar Secrets - Comprehensive lessons program for acoustic guitar players.

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Dan has very recently released this fantastic new resource, Acoustic Guitar Secrets, which contains everything you could possibly need to help you become an accomplished Acoustic Guitar Player.

I was privileged to receive an advance copy of the full course - I told Dan that if it didn't live up to the high standards of his previous works, I could not, in all conscience, give it a review, much less a 'thumbs up'. But, as I might have guessed, he has surpassed himself once again - this is the most complete and well-presented instruction set I have EVER seen for acoustic guitar players, whether at the early stages of learning or for the already proficient player.

There are 5 DVD's (7 hours approx) with video and audio lessons, 2 audio CD's with 127 acoustic guitar tracks, backed up by a 135 page detailed instruction manual with music notation as well as tab for each of the lessons, cross-referenced with the DVDs and CDs. Oh, and there's a Progress Tracker and a Quick-start guide thrown in for good measure!

If you're convinced, or would like to find out more about the course, go straight to the launch page at the link below:

Acoustic Guitar Secrets - Everything you need to know about playing Acoustic Guitar

Enjoy your music,

P.J. Murphy
webmaster, PJ's Guitar Chords & Lyrics
http://www.guitarsongs.info
Guitar Chords Blog: http://www.guitar-chords.blogspot.com
Guitar Tips Blog: http://www.guitar-tips.blogspot.com

pjmurphy@guitarsongs.info

Unlock the Fretboard

2009-03-03T09:46:00.000-08:00

This mini-lesson was kindly supplied by Chris Elmore, of Elmore Music. It's a neat lesson which shows you, using diagrams, tabs, audio and video, how to work out which notes should be played for any given chord. Check it out at the link below:

Chris Elmore - How to Unlock areas of the Fretboard to gain more freedom in your playing

Enjoy your music!

Joe Satriani signed guitar Giveaway - winner announced!

2009-01-16T15:46:00.000-08:00

Hi there!

Regular readers of my Blog will know that my friends at MusicPower.com kindly helped me celebrate my website hitting the 15 Million visitor mark with a very special Giveaway - a wonderful Joe Satriani ( Satch ) signed Ibanez electric guitar.

To put you out of your suspense, the winner has been drawn and is....

NICLAS from SWEDEN!!! Congratulations Niclas!!!!!!

Niclas ( 18 ) started playing drums at the age of 8, and moved on to playing guitar in his early teens. He is a fan of Joe Satriani and finds his music inspiring, but at heart is a throwback to 1970's Glam Rock, naming Alice Cooper, Kiss and Motley Crue among his major influences.

In improving himself as a guitarist, he listens to Steve Vai, Eric Johnson and Paul Gilber, as well as "Satch" of course, these players, he says "have inspired me in another way"

So there it is, congrats again to Niclas, and I hope he gets much joy from this unique prize. To everyone else, sorry - if I could have organized for each of you to have won a guitar I would have been thrilled, but alas, we live in the REAL world!

If you haven't already, you should check out the great range and value in guitars, gear and all manner of instruments at Music-Power.Com , I really believe that whatever guitar you have your mind set on, you won't find it at a better price in any other online or High Street Store.

More song chords and lyrics very soon!

Enjoy your music,

PJ