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  • Drop D – Heavy Blues Guitar Lesson

    Drop D – Heavy Blues Guitar Lesson

    In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play (and improvise) a blues in the key of D, using Drop D tuning. This works really well with both acoustic and electric guitar. In addition to showing you how to play the composition note by note, I’ll show you how to improvise, so that you can take this in your own direction.

    To view the Part 2 video for this blues guitar lesson, as well as download the tablature and the MP3 jam track, visit https://www.activemelody.com/lesson/d…

    Drop D

    The tuning is all about lowering one string, the thickest, E6. Before you start playing, it is worth realizing that between the A5 and E6 string (now re-tuned to the d note) there is the fifth interval, and not – as before – fourths.

    Lowering the tuning allows us to penetrate lower and – what can I say – better sounding sound areas. Entering the land of lower tunings is relatively painless thanks to the Drop D system. We do not have to tune the entire instrument, which can be very troublesome, especially for guitar owners with a double-sided tremolo bridge. It is obvious that this type of construction is extremely sensitive to changes in string tension. On the other hand, with the Drop D tuning a bridge of this type does very well and requires virtually no corrections.

    This tuning can open a lot of possibilities to any guitar player. It is a favorite of heavy metal bands and groups from different subgenres. This tuning is also useful in blues, classical, folk, and country music. Aside from being useful, it’s also generally very fun and there are a lot of great songs that were written and performed in Drop D.

  • Drop D – Heavy Blues Guitar Lesson

    Drop D – Heavy Blues Guitar Lesson

    In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play (and improvise) a blues in the key of D, using Drop D tuning. This works really well with both acoustic and electric guitar. In addition to showing you how to play the composition note by note, I’ll show you how to improvise, so that you can take this in your own direction.

    To view the Part 2 video for this blues guitar lesson, as well as download the tablature and the MP3 jam track, visit https://www.activemelody.com/lesson/d…

    Drop D

    The tuning is all about lowering one string, the thickest, E6. Before you start playing, it is worth realizing that between the A5 and E6 string (now re-tuned to the d note) there is the fifth interval, and not – as before – fourths.

    Lowering the tuning allows us to penetrate lower and – what can I say – better sounding sound areas. Entering the land of lower tunings is relatively painless thanks to the Drop D system. We do not have to tune the entire instrument, which can be very troublesome, especially for guitar owners with a double-sided tremolo bridge. It is obvious that this type of construction is extremely sensitive to changes in string tension. On the other hand, with the Drop D tuning a bridge of this type does very well and requires virtually no corrections.

    This tuning can open a lot of possibilities to any guitar player. It is a favorite of heavy metal bands and groups from different subgenres. This tuning is also useful in blues, classical, folk, and country music. Aside from being useful, it’s also generally very fun and there are a lot of great songs that were written and performed in Drop D.

  • Drop D – Heavy Blues Guitar Lesson

    Drop D – Heavy Blues Guitar Lesson

    In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play (and improvise) a blues in the key of D, using Drop D tuning. This works really well with both acoustic and electric guitar. In addition to showing you how to play the composition note by note, I’ll show you how to improvise, so that you can take this in your own direction.

    To view the Part 2 video for this blues guitar lesson, as well as download the tablature and the MP3 jam track, visit https://www.activemelody.com/lesson/d…

  • Eric Clapton (Cream Era) Guitar Lesson

    Eric Clapton (Cream Era) Guitar Lesson

    To view the Part 2 video, access the on-screen tab viewer, and to download the tab PDF for this lesson, visit https://www.activemelody.com/lesson/e…

    In this rock blues guitar lesson, I’ll show you how to play a Cream (Eric Clapton) solo composition in which you’ll be playing both rhythm and lead parts. This is a classic “call and response” technique that allows you to alternate back and forth between rhythm and lead.

    In this guitar lesson you will see how to play everything that you heard in the intro. All break down note for note. You will see also what is behind it, so you can take this little jam and you can extend it if you want to. You can have your own jam session with yourself. It’s a lot of fun.

    This is these solo composition like this are great because a lot of times you don’t have a jam track or you don’t have another musician to play along with. If somebody says hey play something on guitar your kind of like scrambling for ideas, so this is another thing that you can do on your own. It sounds great by itself. With a heavy overdrive it also sound pretty good. Clean channel if you want to go that way too.

    So this is an Eric Clapton Cream era influence. There’s a lot of Cream licks that are thrown into that. There’s a little bit of Robin Trower as well. So it’s kind of Robin Trower meet Eric Clapton. A lot more Eric Clapton though.

  • Minor Key Blues Guitar Lesson – Learn Both Rhythm and Lead

    Minor Key Blues Guitar Lesson – Learn Both Rhythm and Lead

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    In this blues guitar lesson we take a look at slow melodic blues in key of A. This is I-IV-V melodic progression.

    You gonna be learning how to go back and forth between playing the rhythm part and the lead part. Lot of fun lot of things which you can learn in this lesson.

    To view the Part 2 video as well as download the MP3 jam track and the tablature for this guitar lesson, visit https://www.activemelody.com/lesson/s…

    In this blues guitar lesson you’ll learn how to alternate back and forth between rhythm and lead. I’ve also included several fill licks to make your rhythm playing more interesting. You’ll also learn an Albert King style lead.

  • Solo Blues Guitar Lesson in A

    Solo Blues Guitar Lesson in A

    In this blues guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a solo blues composition that can be played on either electric or acoustic guitar. You’ll be playing both rhythm and lead licks in this piece. I’ll explain where the licks come from so that you expand on this and create some of your own licks.

    To watch the Part 2 video, as well as access to the tablature, and on on-screen tab viewer, visit https://www.activemelody.com/lesson/s…

    Blues is a musical genre known as the folklore of African-American musicians. Its origins are associated with the southern states of the USA, that is the region conventionally called the “deep south”. The very name of the genre (sadness, despair) is related to its nostalgic form, also in the textual layer. Blues pieces touch male-female relationships as well as feelings and emotions (love, loneliness, faithfulness, jealousy). However, blues performers often sing about freedom, work and travel. The songs also feature social criticism relating mainly to racial inequality and political issues.

    Many artists are inspired by blues music and combine it with other styles. In this way, such musical mergers as punk blues, soul blues or blues rock. The popularity of this genre in the USA has led to the emergence of regional varieties, such as Louisiana, New Orleans, Texas and Detroit blues. There are also factions characteristic of other countries – British blues and African blues.