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    50 Guitar Hacks: For the Advancing Guitarist
    50 Guitar Hacks: For the Advancing Guitarist
    50 Guitar Hacks: For the Advancing Guitarist
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    50 Guitar Hacks: For the Advancing Guitarist

    By Graham Tippett

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    The Advancing Guitarist faces many challenges on the instrument, yet it is one of the most exciting periods in a player’s development. This eBook features hacks, mini-lessons, insights, tricks and tips to push you past your new-found comfort zone and make real progress on the instrument. You will reach many plateaus as you progress on guitar, and these are fantastic opportunities to do something different, and to learn something new while deepening the knowledge you’ve already acquired. This eBook provides solutions to many of the issues faced by guitarists on the intermediate plateau, those stuck in a rut, or those simply wishing to break into advanced territory on the instrument. I hope to be a facilitator on this journey, and help you get to where you want to be with your guitar playing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUnlock the Guitar
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN1519040407
    50 Guitar Hacks: For the Advancing Guitarist

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      50 Guitar Hacks - Graham Tippett

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      Introduction

      The Advancing Guitarist faces many challenges on the instrument, yet it is one of the most exciting periods in a player’s development. This book features hacks, mini-lessons, insights, tricks and tips to push you past your new-found comfort zone and make real progress on the instrument. You will reach many plateaus as you progress on guitar, and these are fantastic opportunities to do something different, and to learn something new while deepening the knowledge you’ve already acquired. This book provides solutions to many of the issues faced by guitarists on the intermediate plateau, those stuck in a rut, or those simply wishing to break into advanced territory on the instrument. I hope to be a facilitator on this journey, and help you get to where you want to be with your guitar playing.

      To your best playing yet,

      Graham

      www.unlocktheguitar.net

      1. The Secret to Fast Playing that Everyone Overlooks

      I was never obsessed with playing fast, but I thought it would be interesting to learn the techniques and the ins and outs of picking and pick control. It seems that everyone gets hold of these tapes (DVDs nowadays) of players like Yngwie Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert, Michael Angelo Batio and so on, and attempt the monster runs they see their heroes knock out like picking machines. This is all well and good, but wouldn’t it be more useful to learn the techniques or practice runs they used to do to get to that point? To be able to copy those licks, you need to have already developed your own speed techniques. The (slightly ironic) problem is that most guitarists are watching these tapes in the hopes of acquiring those very techniques—something that’s rarely explained.

      In the case of Michael Angelo Batio, I was watching an interview where he demonstrated a run he used to do when developing his speed technique. I was surprised to see that it contained very few notes and was just basically crossing to the adjacent string at high speed. If you think about it, copying a monster lick that crosses the whole fretboard, or running up and down three-octave scale patterns, involves way too many factors such as pick control, changing strings, pick direction etc. that are far easier to get under control by restricting your speed practice to a sequence that just involves the fundamentals of speed playing on two adjacent strings: accurate picking and the ability to change strings easily. These movements can then be expanded to other strings when you’ve built up speed and control on two strings. In this way you’re almost ‘retracing the steps’ of speed players in order to construct your own fast playing technique.

      What to do: Find a repeatable sequence of notes on two adjacent strings that involves either alternate or economy picking as well as string changing and practice it to death. When you have it under control, and can play it fairly fast and comfortably, expand it across the fretboard and into those monster patterns.

      2. How to Move Beyond Pentatonic Scales

      Most guitarists reach this wall at some point: they’re stuck in minor pentatonic/blues scale based playing, and are bored to tears of it. You may think the next thing to do would be to learn some theory, or venture into the dreaded modes, but wait! Pentatonic scales are used in all kinds of music, even jazz! If you only play and listen to four-on-the-floor rock, then you have no references outside of that i.e. you don’t even know what not playing pentatonic scales is supposed to sound like, so where are you going to get your inspiration/ideas from? The man that helped me get through this stage and out the other side was John Scofield. Here’s a player with rock roots who can play any kind of jazz or fusion guitar styles at the drop of a hat. It’s even better if you go chronologically through his career as you can see the progression. The Uberjam albums are especially good listening as you’ll hear a fusion

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