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Study Work |
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Potato Head
Argh! This exercise is
driving me mad. Sounds wow but it is very very hard. So I wrote it &
cant play it......argh!
Potato Head technique is
grabbing the neck with your right hand whilst tapping only with your
left. This gives clarity as it mutes all unplayed strings & wow does
it build some strength up. Use a high drive neck humbucker 0 tone &
a bit of echo too for that dreamy tubular sound.
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Brain Splint Carousel
Nasty
hard tapping with fast arpeggios using plectrum. When you get it
right, this is a pleasure pain piece. Enjoy. |
Trem Inside
Whammy bar ballad with
super clean bridge pickup strat sound plus echo & reverb. Lots of
expression here.
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Finger Tapping Study
200bpm quaver triplets
can be yours costing you only your finger tip skin until they tough up. |
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12 & 8 Bar Basics
A slash
rhythm chart using intervals to explain the construction of the
blues in all keys. |
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Guitar Scales
Get your scales
positions sussed out by practicing these scales. Learn all the licks
you will ever need once you can place your fretboard position for
the right key. Amaze your friends with your musical dexterity.....oh
look! Just suss your scales Ok ;-)
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4 Tone Chords
Play virtually any chord in
three or more different places at will. Just add enharmonics. |
Oxy Moron
Put your self into this
piece because room has been left for you to do so. Work on it :) |
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Guitar Notation Positioning
It is so important to
understand this. Easily laid out for you to grasp fast.
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Beginner Pieces |
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No More Waterfall
A brilliant piece developed
from a students mistake.
Listen to your mistakes.
They can be the start of amazing new music.
Very well done Kieran O.
This piece is yours. |
Naomi's Song
A fine piece
accidentally played by one one of my top students. I have ran with
her idea & this is the result. All credit to Naomi for those first
halting attempts at the D chord. |
Batman
Da da da da da da da da
da Batman
12 bar fun
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Fir Tree Fairy
A first piece. Tell this story to
your families with your guitar music at Christmas & create a little
Christmas magic yourself. Its all true you
know!
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Summer Blue
A simple but very effective
piece of blues with a lazy summers day feel to it. Look for the shapes
here. |
For the Spanish Guitarists
Spanish
Pasacale or Walking music. A great foot stomper in 6/4. This is just
the mapping of the piece. You must play it how you feel at the time
using these ingredients. |
Your Not There
Chord movement creativity.
Easy music with a great sound. |
London's Burning & Frere
Jacques
KS2
Vocalisation, internalisation & scalic exploration of well known
songs as rounds in simple C. |
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The Everything Scales
Named because they are used
in Everything. Practice these daily to get your all your grade pieces
tip top for the exam. They will also make you a better player more
quickly. |
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Cool Bells
Very early piece with a full
rock ballad feel. Great fun to play in the classroom. |
Sweet Home
Taken from the Wider
Opportunities Guitar syllabus & pepped up with some tasty 9ths for
accompaniment. A class favourite. |
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Head on the Track
Easy blues riff but totally
authentic. Lyrics included. |
12 Bar Blues in E
Chords, plus the lead guitar
scale. |
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Intermediate Pieces |
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Albatross
By the great Peter Green &
Fleetwood Mac. In my arrangement, play all 4 guitar parts & the bass
line at the same time. See your teacher for the RH technique. |
The Flow
Bass & guitar duet with a
feel good factor.
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Naughty Cat
My cats as told by bass & guitar. |
Guitarist fun with a James
Bond Feel.
My egotistical take on what
the new James Bond theme might be.....played on an acoustic guitar.
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Parisienne Walkways
The rhythm guitar part.
Print this off & play to Full Score in Band Pieces |
Bad to the Bone
Woke up this morning,
style blues. Finger 3 or slide your choice. With simple bass
accompaniment.
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Bang Bang
Of Kill Bill fame with
Nancy Sinatra singing. Vocals & guitar part for duo performance.
Pease perform this. |
Bottle Neck Blues
Guitarists 12 bar blues
with the third finger only. You can all do this & it is great fun & very
authentic but the finger does get a bit sore. See your teacher on how to
use the blues guitar slide or bottle with this piece & save on plasters
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Traffic Jam
This is the same
version available above. Learn these simple chords then allow some
freestyle rhythm to come in. Add some cheek to that rhythm line &
you will be playing what I have in mind. Enjoy! |
Big Foot. (Guitar & Drums)
Guitarists! Listen to
the full score above, then print & practice this piece, open the
bass score above & play to it to get the original bass & guitar duet
feel while you play |
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Through Thick &
Thin (Guitar Score & TAB)
Guitarists! Listen to
the full score above, then print & practice this piece, open the
bass score above & play to it to get the original bass & guitar duet
feel while you play.
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Zarabanda
A typical Spanish
classical piece that uses free stroke on p, i & m repeatedly
to create a really dark feel together with the standard Am & E chords.
This is just an exert from what I can remember. |
Green Sleeves & My Lady's Answer
A song of love to the
Lady Green Sleeves. Here the love smitten singer has his answer from the
lady. Enigmatically, not a yes, but not a no either.
Not written by Henry. C1580.
E1 on throne. Italian style song. |
Sing It Back to the Birds
Write some lyrics to this &
make it into more than just a good ditty, like a song for instance. |
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Advanced Pieces |
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Metal Toccata
Insanity with Bach & Overdrive.
High speed shredding for those who like the Rock in Barock.
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Jibatcha
This is not yet complete
as a piece but I promised it would be published tonight. All the
parts are done but the piece format & the bass tab has not been
finished. All else is correct. Guitarists, get that semi quaver
triplet run if you can. Ha ha ha ;) I am still struggling & I wrote
it! :( |
Why
Dont You?
Give some advice. Get
told where to stick it. Take that as good advice. That's the story
line behind this piece.
For students who have
been shown in class, add yourself to this basic chart. Finish how
you like just be expressive ;-) |
Jazz Fly
Analyse this all those
who have had the lesson. Become a dribbling wretch all those who
have not. Explain the
turn around & the final turn around motif. Understand & recreate in
your own fashion. |
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Lonely Beach
Quite jazz piece with
sad overtones. Can see the party but cant join in sort of thing.
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Estar Muy Visto
Spanish classical that I
always seem to have known but haven't a clue where I got it from.
This piece has been a real friend over the years. Sorry, cant TAB
classical. See your teacher ;)
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Parisienne Walkways
This lead guitar part is
a devil of simplicity, genius, blistering speed & tonality.
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Miserlou
Nuts shredding from the
late 50's. Dick Dale & the Del Tones. A total classic you all know.
Get shredding.
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