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If your sore fingers hurt from playing guitar then watch this quick video to discover how to prevent sore fingers, how to fix sore fingers and what to do when your fingers hurt too much to play at all! All guitar players know about sore fingers! And it's not just beginner guitar players who face this problem. Changing to heavier strings, doing lots of string bends, or just playing more often than normal can all lead to sore fingertips that hurt. When you get sore fingers while playing the guitar, playing through the pain will help you to improve. However, knowing when to take a day off to rest your fingers is also important. When your fingers get harder, it becomes easier to press down the string and easier to play for longer without your fingers getting sore or going numb. To prevent sore fingers you can apply a little salt water to them each day to toughen up the skin. Superglue can also be applied to the ends to protect fingers which are sore. This can help you to keep goi...

Cool Blues Rock Licks for blues rock guitar soloing. Learn 4 cool blues rock licks in the styles of more rocky blues players like Gary Moore, Billy Gibbons, Wilko Johnson and others! These licks are perfect for using in high energy blues rock solos and are well worth adding into your guitar lick trickbag! All 4 of these cool blues rock licks are in the key of G and will work great over a blues rock chord sequence like a rocky 12 bar blues in G. They are using a few different patterns of the G blues scale and G minor pentatonic scales. 1:00 Watch here to see the scale patterns used in these blues rock licks (tab included!) 1:40 Cool blues rock lick 1 uses a common unison bending move and a repeating bending move - a favourite device of everyone from Eric Clapton to Gary Moore. 4:39 A cool Gary Moore style blues rock lick with palm muting and an aggressive alternate picked phrase. Listen to his solo on 'Walking By Myself' to hear an idea a little like this lick. 7:37 Le...

Tasty blues funk licks for bluesy funky guitar licks soloing! Get that funky blues edge in your guitar solos with some licks from some legendary bluesy funky guitar players Freddie King, Albert King, Otis Rush and others. Armed with these blues funk licks you'll be all set to hit the stage at that blues or funk jam session and rip out an awesomely funky blues guitar solo! All these blues funk licks are in the key of D using the D blues scale played up at the 10th fret. You can practice these blues funk licks with the same backing track I'm using HERE: On my YouTube channel: Bluesy Funky Jamtrack: https://youtu.be/u8o6n8u5iCM 1:00 The first of the blues funk licks uses some repeating bends and a repeating picked fragment. You can use pull offs if you prefer...but picking it gives it more attack and a bluesy, funky flavour. 3:53 Blues funk lick number 2 starts with a funky double stop move. Remember this, it's great for getting a funky sound! Be sure to follow the pic...

Want to learn guitar scales fast? Well ...playing up and down them like most players do is not the way to do it! In this lesson you'll discover 3 powerful and simple scale practice exercises to learn your guitar scales fast...and more importantly be able to use them when you play. Get my best Memnbers Only Lessons here: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/video-powerpack-page-new/ Learn Guitar Scales Fast! Imagine if you could learn the essential guitar scales fast...instead of spending hours playing them up and down. Well there are some ways that you can, but we're not normally shown them. Instead we often play them round and round with the notes in the exact same order every time. Problem is you're not going to use them like that when you solo and jam! 0:20 Just playing up and down doesn't help you learn guitar scales fast! It's also got nothing to do with how we use them when we play. You need some different ways to practice themif you want to nail those guita...

Learn 5 powerful blues licks for minor pentatonic scale soloing right now...and start playing better blues solos today. With these 5 blues licks in your minor pentatonic scale soloing trick bag you'll soon be playing more authentic and better sounding blues guitar solos. Why? Because the minor pentatonic scale is the basis of most blues guitar soloing! So the more minor pentatonic scale blues licks you know and can use..the better your blues solos are likely to be. You'll hear your favourite blues guitar players use ideas like these in their minor pentatonic scale blues licks library. And that's exactly where these licks have come from. I've taken them from blues guitar legends like Eric Clapton, BB King, Albert King Stevie Ray Vaughan and other blues legends. All these players used the minor pentatonic scale most of the time in their playing and all use pentatonic blues licks exactly like these. So let's jump in and boost your knowledge of blues guitar soloing wi...

Hey everyone, through this lesson you will learn about gst rock guitar licks and advance fast rock licks. Grab the Tabs for this lesson here: https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/fast-pentatonic-licks-opt-in Essential fast rock guitar licks you can use over and over again for high energy rock solos. These fast rock guitar licks not only sound great in your solos but will also help you build guitar speed and play guitar faster and show you some essential tricks for expanding your rock soloing. Watch now! Fast Rock Guitar Licks (You need To Know!) These speedy pentatonic licks are all using the D minor pentatonic and D blues scale. Not sure how to play these? Click here for my minor pentatonic tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJKenmHWKyc Let's jump into the lesson! 0:25 Lick 1 - The Classic Rock Bending Lick Everyone plays this first one, in fact it's one of the most common fast rock licks you'll hear. Watch out for the technique tips to learn how to control ...

Guitar backing track metal in E minor. This heavy metal jam track in Em is perfect for practicing soloing in the key of Em. Work on those new guitar scales, new lick ideas or create riffs of your own. This guitar backing track in a metal style as well as my other guitar backing tracks are perfect to use with my video lessons and tutorials on my channel. Practicing guitar with backing tracks is one of the best ways to get used to playing with other players in a band setting. You get used to playing with a groove, improvising and soloing, it can be great ear training, you learn to listen to what's going on around you and you get used to playing...not just practicing! Hope you enjoy my guitar backing tracks look for more coming regularly. Scale suggestions for this metal guitar backing track: The guitar backing track (metal style) is in the key of E minor so try using scales like E minor pentatonic, E blues scale or E natural minor scale (also called E Aeolian mode). Try some ...

Santana licks lesson tab book free here: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/santana-quick-licks-book-opt-in/ In this Santana licks lesson you learn how to play 3 awesome Carlos Santana licks step-by-step as heard in Black Magic Woman., This is one of Santana's most famous recordings and showcases the Santana guitar style perfectly! Black Magic Woman is essentially a minor blues in the key of D minor and all three of these Carlos Santana licks are using the D minor pentatonic and blues scale patterns up around the 10th fret. To get that Carlos Santana guitar tone use the neck pickup on your guitar with a small amount of distortion. Backing off the tone control on your guitar a touch will also help make these Santana licks sound authentic. Let's get started with the Santana licks lesson! Carlos Santana Lick #1 - this is the lick Santana uses to kick off his intro solo on Black Magic Woman. Carlos Santana Lick #2 - This lick shows you how Carlos ends the intro solo on Black ...

A guitar warm up routine to get you warmed up and ready to play in minutes. You don't want to spend half of your guitar practice routine getting warmed up...you want to be playing! Following this 3-5 minute warm up routine for guitar will get your fingers looser, your hands relaxed...and over time will also help build faster and stronger guitar fingers, finger independence and speed and fluency too!  Warming up is an important part of your guitar practice, but how can you do it? There are lots of ways, but I like to use the 5 short warm exercises here. They use bends, trills, down picks, up picks and alternate picking to get both your fretting hand and picking hand ready to play. To make them easier to remember I decided to put them together into a short warm up routine to use at the start of all my guitar practice sessions. Remember the goal is to get warmed up: these exercises are not about playing fast! Do them slowly and accurately in a relaxed fashion - this is important! ...

Beginner Rock Guitar Licks Lesson Part 2 shows you 3 more rock guitar licks that are perfect for the beginner to intermediate rock guitar player. These rock guitar licks are great for beginners or intermediate guitarists...but even your favourite rock guitar legend is using them too! Guitar solos by Gary Moore, Slash, Schenker, Randy Rhoads, Kirk Hammett have all used licks just like these ones. So these 'beginner rock licks' are super powerful...whatever level of player you are so dive in and learn how to play and use them, and get them into your solos to build yourself an awesome rock or metal guitar style! These licks are in the key of E minor using the E blues scale played up at the 12th fret. 0:57  Beginner Rock Lick 1: This scaler rock lick is similar to something played by Slash in his "Sweet Child 'o' Mine' solo. Follow the picking and bending guidelines in the lesson (they're important!) and watch that 'blues curl' at the start! 4:15 B...

Learn 6 guitar scale patterns you need to know for playing rock, blues, metal and other styles of guitar in this 'no bull' guitar tutorial. Let's face it, we guitar players need to know at least a few scale patterns if we want to play fluently. But with so many scale patterns on guitar, where do you begin? With the most important and useful ones of course! That's why I made this video. I want to show you 6 of the most common guitar scale patterns that guitarists use when they play so you can start to play your own licks and melodies on the guitar just like your favourite players do. This guitar lesson will teach you scale patterns on guitar for the minor pentatonic scale, blues scale, the natural minor scale or Aeolian mode, major pentatonic and the major scale. We'll also discuss the concept of the root note, and how to use it to move any of these scales into any key on the guitar neck (essential stuff for any aspiring guitar soloist or improviser!) 1:09 Minor ...

This Beginner Rock Guitar Licks lesson shows you 3 guitar licks that are perfect for the beginner to intermediate rock guitar player, teaching you essential concepts and techniques you'll use time and again to play great rock guitar solos. These rock guitar licks are great for beginners...but don't be fooled: even your favourite rock guitar legends like Slash, Schenker, Randy Rhoads, Kirk Hammett have used licks just like these in their epic rock and metal guitar solos. These 'beginner rock licks' are super powerful...whatever level of player you are so dive in and learn how to play and use them now! These licks are in the key of E minor using the E blues scale played up at the 12th fret. 0:57  Beginner Rock Lick 1: This repeating rock lick is using hammer ons, pull offs on the top 3 strings. Follow the picking and muting guidelines in the lesson (they're important!) 3:30 Beginner Rock Lick 2: Michael Schenker does this sort of thing a lot! This move can be a b...

Blues Guitar Tricks Lesson - learn the 3 most important blues guitar string bends you need to use for killer blues guitar solos. You won't find a famous blues guitar solo anywhere that doesn't use at least one of these string bends...they are quite literally 'must know' for any aspiring blues player. Think these blues guitar bending tricks will take years to learn? Wrong...I'll show them to you in just 60 seconds in this super powerful but super short blues guitar lesson. So hold on and prepare to get some authentic blues bends used by all the blues guitar legends into your playing...and hear the difference fast! Dream of being a better guitar player? James Shipway Guitar gives you awesome lessons, licks and practical tips guaranteed to take you to the next level. For more details please visit Our Website - https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/ LET'S CONNECT! Blog - https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jamesshipwayguitar Inst...

This 60 second blues guitar lesson shows you a killer blues guitar bend you can start using in your blues solos today! This bend is a favourite of blues guitar legends like BB King and Peter Green, listen out for it in their blues soloing. best of all I'll have you playing this bend in just 60 seconds! We're going to play it in the key of A up at the 12th fret. Notice how the bend is extended onto the end of the sliding blues scale or minor pentatonic pattern. This makes it easy to find when you want to use it, so make sure to check this out. To use the bend grab it and bend it up 3 frets. Might take some push but with a little practice you'll get there! Then stick on a blues backing track and have a go at using it in your soloing. It's a simple but powerful blues guitar trick you won't want to be without from now on. have fun! For more details please visit Our Website - https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/ LET'S CONNECT! Blog - https://jamesshipwayguitar...

These palm muting tips will help you to power up your palm muting technique and get those chunky power chord riffs sounding awesome and heavy...like you hear in music by Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera and other great metal bands. This guitar technique can take a little practice to get right, but by following the palm muting tips in this lesson you'll be able to avoid some of the most common mistakes players make. I'm muting an E5 chord in this lesson. Hand position is important when palm muting chords. Too far back near the bridge, or too far forward and your palm muting won't hit the spot! Aim to pick at around the base of the neck pickup in your guitar, this will probably put your hand in the right sort of area. Keep your palm muting hand soft and relaxed, we don't want to push down on the strings. Try muting hard, then soft and switch between them. This will help you learn to feel the best level of pressure/relaxation to get the sound you like. Good luck! For more...

Legato licks can sound awesome in your rock solos and in this guitar lesson I'll show you 3 legato lines for rock guitar you don't want to be without. These legato licks make a great legato practice routine or legato workout too if you want to improve your legato technique and your finger strength and accuracy. And the sliding blues scale shape I show you in this lesson really lends itself to playing legato, meaning with a little practice you can soon be creating legato licks and runs of your own. After looking at the sliding A blues scale shape used for the lesson it's time for the first legato lick. It's ascending the scale pattern using a repeating legato pattern. Break it up into chunks to make it easier to learn and build your legato chops bit by bit. The second legato lick is the kind of idea you might hear Paul Gilbert play. It's a repeating blues scale fragment which is a useful addition for high energy rock solos. The third legato lick descends the sc...

Guitar practice time? Here are 5 tools which you'll need to help you get the most from your session and see great results every time you practice your guitar. Just deciding to 'practice guitar' won't get you where you want to be unless you're doing it the right way! The 5 guitar practice tools I share in this video will help you stay on track, remember what you've learned, develop a good practice routine , manage your practice time more efficiently and ultimately make you a better guitar player! Having these 5 practice tools in your practice room will help you get off to a flying start with your practice session, so keep them close by. Let's look at them one by one: 1) Timer to help you break up your session and cover all the areas you want to practice. A small digital egg timer is perfect, or you can use the stopwatch on your phone 2) Blank tab paper to keep a record of any cool ideas you discover. We can learn a lot from ourselves when we do our guit...

Power Chords:  Learn the power chord shapes for guitar you need to play rock and metal  with this simple memory/learning technique. Learning and remembering the power chords you need on guitar can be tricky and take time, but I'll show you a simple method you can use to nail them fast and remember and find them when you need them. Good news huh? Power chords are an important part of any guitarists chord library. Obviously, they are used in rock and metal guitar, but you'll also hear them in punk, country, pop, funk and other common guitar styles. So, chances are that you need to know the power chords in this lesson. You'll learn four common power chords in this tutorial: starting on the E, A, D and G strings. We'll group them together into 'octaves' to make them easy to learn and remember. I'll also give you tips on how to combine them and layer them to get some cool guitar sounds happening. So guitar player, strap in and prepare to learn the most impo...

Rock Solo Tricks - this killer double stop idea is amazing for jamming out high energy rock licks. Think Zakk Wylde, Slash, Schenker...they all use this in their epic solos. With this and other rock guitar solo tricks and licks you can start to power up your rock solos and start sounding like a better guitar player. Remember to always experiment with how to use them and most importantly give everything a solid rhythmic groove. Then this double stop trick can be a powerful addition to your guitar lick library. It's using C# minor pentatonic up at the 9th fret and uses three double stop bending ideas. These can be freely mixed up and combined to create dozens of cool rock licks. Try jamming over a backing track and see what you can come up with. Look out for more rock solo tricks coming in future lessons. Have fun! My awesome guitar lessons and tutorials covering improvisation and soloing, guitar chords and scales, great guitar licks, music theory and more are guaranteed to help ...

Blues Licks for Beginners Lesson Part 2. In this video tutorial discover 3 more blues licks for beginners. These authentic but basic blues licks are perfect for helping you learn to play great blues solos and licks of your own. Learn to play these licks and you're on the way to sounding like a great blues guitarist. In this free blues guitar lesson, I'll show you how to play licks used by all great blues players. All these licks are from the blues scale, the most often used scale for soloing and improvising in blues and rock. We'll be playing in the key of A and these licks will work great over a 12 bar blues in the key of A. If you are just starting out playing blues licks then jump in and get started the right way! Then armed with these blues licks you'll have ideas to use in your own improvisation. Good luck! Backing track used in the lesson is here: https://youtu.be/n-WEY_Mgblw My awesome guitar lessons and tutorials covering improvisation and soloing, guita...