Volume 6 Lessons
This volume covers several techniques to embellish your playing and prepare you for playing lead, soloing, and improvising. Hammer ons, pull offs, slides, doubles stops, etc are examined. Other topics covered include Drop D Tuning and movable Dom7 and Dom9 chords.
Hammer ons and Pull offs
This lesson covers the techniques of hammer ons and pull offs. Several exercises and applications are demonstrated.
The Palm Mute
In this lesson you will learn the technique of palm muting and how to apply it to your playing.
More Tricks for your Picks
In this lesson we will cover a few more techniques you can use to spice up your playing. Slides, scratches, Octaves, and pick slides are discussed and demonstrated.
The Pinky Matters
In this lesson you will learn ways to embellish the 12 bar blues and powers chords using your pinky finger. Several examples are demonstrated
Moving the Dom 7 Chord
In this lesson we will cover several ways to play Dominant 7 chords as barre chords and movable chords
Bending Strings
In this lesson you will be introduced to the technique of bending strings and various types of bends.
Soloing with Pentatonic Minor
In this lesson we will analyze the pentatonic minor scale and how to apply it along with other embellishments to the art of playing lead
Bells and Whistles
In this lesson we will cover more tricks to add to your lead playing. Trills, Double Stops and vibrato are demonstrated and discussed.
The Jimi Hendrix Chord
This lesson covers the Dom 9 chord and the Dom 7#9 chord made famous in rock music by Jimi Hendrix.