Posted in Guitar Lessons, Videos on Oct 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
Here’s a recently posted video guitar lesson by NextLevelGuitar.com on Surf Guitar Picking. This lesson, by retro-guitarist Jason Lee, explains the fast picking used by Surf Guitar King, Dick Dale. You can find more video lessons by NextLevelGuitar.com instructors here.
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Videos on Sep 25th, 2008 No Comments »
In this recently posted JamPlay.com video guitar lessons, instructor Jim Deeming teaches how to play a cascaded lick used by guitar great Tommy Emmanuel. Tommy uses this kind of lick at the beginning of his version of Classical Gas. The lesson is a bit tedious, but well worth it. These cascading licks are great finger [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Songs, Videos on Sep 17th, 2008 No Comments »
A 12 part video guitar lesson has been posted on YouTube for the song “The Day That Never Comes”, off of Metallica’s new album, Death Magnetic. Each video is short and contains helpful tips. There is also a link to the tabs, which are excellent. As the instructor, known only as “K” writes: Be sure [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, News, Videos on Sep 7th, 2008 No Comments »
“It Might Get Loud” is a new documentary film which tells the stories of three guitar virtuosos from three generations. The guitarists are Led Zeppelins’ Jimmy Page, U2s’ The Edge and Jack White of the White Stripes. Each guitarist talks about their beginnings, why they picked up the guitar, their influences and how they developed [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Videos on Sep 3rd, 2008 3 Comments »
JamPlay.com has recently posted an excellent video guitar lesson on how to play the Pantera classic, “Walk”. The instructor is JamPlay.com’s metal guitar instructor, Dennis Hodges. Check out the rest of this lesson, as well as other helpful video guitar lessons at JamPlay.com.
Posted in Fun Stuff, News, Uncategorized, Videos on Aug 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
The Air Guitar World Championships 2008 was held this past Friday in Oulu, Finland, and a new champion was crowned. The winner was Hot Lixx Hulahan (Craig Billmeier), winner of the 2008 US Finals. He takes the title of Air Guitar World Champion from reigning champion Ochi ‘Dainoji’ Yosuke of Japan. Hot Lixx was seemed [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, Videos on Aug 20th, 2008 3 Comments »
It’s always inspiring to learn about young musical talent. Here’s a 14 year old guitarist who plays bass, piano, drums and also sings. In this recently posted video, this one-kid-band performs an amazing remake of Love Potion No. 9. If you like this video, check out the videos of him performing the vocal track, drum [...]
Posted in Guitar Players, Videos on Aug 16th, 2008 3 Comments »
In a recently posted Fly on the Wall video posted at the MissionMetallica site, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett says that his solos off of their new album sound like those of AC/DC guitarist Angus Young. The guitar sound is a little bit more aggro. It’s less creamy and my playing is way different from previous [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Videos on Aug 5th, 2008 No Comments »
I saw these videos on the Gibson web site recently, and thought I would share them here. They are two clips from the popular PBS show, Antiques Roadshow. If you’re not familiar with the program, people bring in their antiques to have them appraised by an expert. In these two videos, you can see two [...]
Posted in Guitar Lessons, Videos on Aug 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
Here’s a new video lesson by NextLevelGuitar.com instructor Jason Lee…not to be confused with Jason Lee of Funky Chops. This video covers the pre-bend with tremolo arm technique, and then applying it to some simple progressions to get a surf guitar sound. If you liked this lesson, check out some of the other lessons at [...]