Guitarists

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Study Work

12 & 8 Bar Basics

A slash rhythm chart using intervals to explain the construction of the blues in all keys.

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 ;-)

Brain Splint Carousel

Nasty hard tapping with fast arpeggios using plectrum. When you get it right, this is a pleasure pain piece. Enjoy.

200bpm quaver triplets can be yours costing you only your finger tip skin until they toughen up.

Play virtually any chord in three or more different places at will. Just add enharmonics.

Put your self into this piece because room has been left for you to do so. Work on it :) 

It is so important to understand this. Easily laid out for you to grasp fast.

Beginner Pieces

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.

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.

KS2 Vocalisation, internalisation & scalic exploration of well known songs as rounds in simple C.

Chord movement creativity. Easy music with a great sound.

Easy blues riff but totally authentic. Lyrics included.

Chords, plus the lead guitar scale.

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!

Intermediate Pieces

Bass & guitar duet with a feel good factor.

Woke up this morning, style blues. Finger 3 or slide your choice. With simple bass accompaniment.

Of Kill Bill fame with Nancy Sinatra singing. Vocals & guitar part for duo performance. Pease perform this. 

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 ;-)

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!

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

Guitarist fun with a James Bond Feel.

My egotistical take on what the new James Bond theme might be.....played on an acoustic guitar.

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.

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.

My cat by bass & guitar.

Write some lyrics to this & make it into more than just a good ditty, like a song for instance. 

Advanced Pieces

Insanity with Bach & Overdrive. High speed shredding for those who like the Rock in Barock.

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! :(

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 ;-)  

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. 

Quite jazz piece with sad overtones. Can see the party but cant join in sort of thing.

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 ;)