It does not necessarily have to take you a very long time to gain the skills needed to accurately express yourself through music.
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It does not necessarily have to take you a very long time to gain the skills needed to accurately express yourself through music.
An arrangement for fingerstyle guitar from the 1978 horror flick, written by the director John Carpenter.
Mike Campese is back with ideas on how to compose - anytime, anywhere.
Mike Campese is back with additional ideas on how to compose - anytime, anywhere.
Mike Campese is back with exercises to help you improve your picking, dexterity, and overall technique.
Dominants should be the arpeggios you study first since they are used regularly in Blues/Rock progressions and songs.
Mike Campese returns with a second set of exercises to help you improve your picking, dexterity, and overall technique.
Mike Campese delivers patterns that foster some of the fastest, most accurate picking you can imagine.
Mike Campese touches on a more modern approach, incorporating different types of patterns into odd-numbered lines.
Mike Campese gives you a nice sweep picking arpeggio workout using the chord progression from Pachelbel`s Canon in D.
Mike Campese delivers a fistful of single string triad arpeggios - major, minor and diminished.
Mike Campese puts both hands on the fretboard to deliver more triad arpeggios.
You must master the ability to play with both speed and creativity in order to make your licks stand out.
Mike Campese covers the flat keys moving around the circle of fourths.
Tom Hess takes you through the exact steps needed for cleaning up unwanted string noise in your blues guitar licks.
Mike Campese will help master your triads in all 12 keys, focusing on the sharp keys for the major triads.
Chords have the potential to bring a whole new element to your soloing providing cool, unique, and contrasting textures amongst the single note lines you play.
Here you`ll learn several creative blues guitar techniques that will make your blues phrases sound much more expressive.
Mike Campese is back to help you out of the box - the scale pattern box, that is.
Mike Campese will help you build on your scales with his string skipping exercises.
Mike Campese reminds you that if you don`t use it, you will surely lose it.
Tom Hess will help you make your guitar solos overflow with emotion,
Just by flatting the third you can develop a whole new shredding sound.
These exercises and examples will help you to improve your finger independence as well as your picking.
Mike Campese teaches you short snippets from some songs off his brand new album "Chapters".
You maybe missing out on a massive range of sounds that you just can`t get otherwise.
Here are Mike`s technique to help spice up your solos, instead of just running up and down arpeggios.
How to develop a lightning fast tremolo picking guitar technique.
Read about new ideas for using perfect 5ths in your playing.
These 2-string scale fragment examples will increase your speed and your picking technique.
How to create amazing guitar solos using open strings and pentatonic scale patterns.
3-string picking ideas that are great for developing your picking, and to help create lines.
Chris takes you through every inversion on string-set G-B-E, allowing you to bust one out when called upon to do so.
Confused about the modes? Here is a way you can practice the modes that may help.
focusing on picking and moveable shapes that will help to create longer lines.
Mike shows you moveable type patterns for the harmonic minor scale, and some ways you can get some fresh new modern type sounds.