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Epiphone posts arpeggios guitar lesson
Epiphone has posted a second video guitar lesson from Emile Minasche teaching how to play arpeggios. I’ve posted it below, and along with it, the first video in the series. Have fun.
Learn how to play a BB King Style blues guitar lick.
I’m a sucker for a great blues lick. Blues is easily my favourite kind of music to play, and BB King my favourite blues guitar player. This excellent video from John Truggle features John teaching you, and me, how to play a lick from BB’s Sweet Sixteen.
Video Guitar Lesson: BB King – Thrill is Gone
I’ve said it many times before on Fretboard, but BB King is one of my favourite guitar players. In fact, if I was forced to choose my No. 1, I reckon BB would get the nod. There’s just something about that lovely warm tone from his Lucille, the way he strips it right down to just the clean note and uses vibrato to wring everything he can from the strings. I’ve seen him live a couple of times, and he’s sensational.
Video Guitar Lesson: Joe Bonamassa
Guitar Lifestyle picked up on Guitar Center’s posting of a number of videos from Joe Bonamassa’s recent instore guitar clinic.
In the clip below, Joe discusses his slide technique and how corny eighties movie Crossroads, and specifically the Ry Cooder soundtrack piqued his interest in slide guitar. Watch as Joe discusses his slide technique:
(Via Guitar Lifestyle.)
Epiphone Casino Ltd Edition with Bigsby
The Epiphone Casino Ltd Edition with Bigsby is a special custom version of this ubiquitous Epi. It was launched at Namm in early 2006 and shipped throughout that year. If you’re quick, and very lucky, you’ll still be able to pick one up from a dealer. If not, you’ll have to resort to second hand [...]
Fantastic Blues Guitar Solo Lesson
This lesson on how to play a blues guitar solo comes form Dan Denley, author of several courses of guitar lessons. Dan’s a great teacher and communicator and makes it easy to play along with him. You can find out more about his Blues Guitar Secrets course here.
Epiphone Joe Pass Emperor II videos
It’s been way too long since I posted videos on here, so here are a couple featuring one of may favourite Epiphone guitars, the Joe Pass Emperor II. The Emperor II is a semi-hollow body electric guitar based on Epiphone’s Emperor guitar and named after late jazz legend, Joe Pass.
The Joe Pass Emperor II features [...]
The five best guitar teachers on YouTube
YouTube is a fantastic resource for guitar lessons. Not only are there dozens of highly-skilled guitar players demonstrating chords, lick, styles and songs. But some of the world’s best, and most well-known guitar players, some of them sadly no longer with us, are right there giving lessons.
So I thought that it would be great to put together a kind of video notebook of some of the best lessons I could find on there and keep it so that when I get some time (ha!) I can watch the videos and learn a few new tricks.
Two great Slash Les Paul videos
It’s been a while since I posted any videos, so I thought I’d make up for it by posting two great videos today.
They both feature Slash. In the first — which is an Epiphone promo, so is a little ‘in your face’ — he talks about the Epiphone version of the Slash signature Les Paul and how he suggested it to Gibson as a way of making it available to those of us who can’t afford to drop $4,000 on one guitar.
The Epiphone Sheraton and that gorgeous Vampire Weekend guitar tone
Columbia University graduates, Vampire Weekend are one of a seemingly endless stream of bands to have come from nowhere and gained huge popularity almost overnight thanks to the internet. In Vampire Weekend’s case, it was indie music blog, Sterogum that played a crucial role.
