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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...

Blues Lick Lesson - the No.1 'Must Know' Blues Lick? Learn the blues lick played by all the blues guitar greats in this blues lick lesson. It's one of those blues guitar licks that sounds great almost anywhere in a blues solo and it's an essential addition to your blues guitar lick library. Let's dive into the blues lick lesson and get started! Supercharge your guitar technique and soloing with my free Video Powerpack: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/video-powerpack-page-new/ 0:26 Learn to play possibly the most important and 'must know' blues lick there is! All the legends know it and use it. It's an essential bit of blues guitar language. 0:42 Here's the A minor pentatonic scale shape at the 5th fret. This is the scale that this lick (and dozens of other blues guitar licks you must know!) comes from. 1:04 Here's the No. 1 blues lick you must know played so you can hear it. Sounds familiar eh? Let's break the lick up and look at how...

Starting a blues solo in a strong ,attention grabbing way is essential if you want your playing to make an impact on the listener! In this lesson I'll show you 3 awesome licks for starting a blues solo. These 'solo starting licks' can be easily adapted and changed to suit the way you play and to give you lots of killer blues starting licks of your own. Starting a blues solo well is about more than licks though! You need to start your solo with commitment and conviction and your rhythmic feel needs to be rock solid. These two factors can really show the listener that you mean business as you kick off your blues solo. On the other hand, a weak, timid sounding start to your blues solo will most likely lose the listeners attention straight away...so dig in and play like you mean it every time. Remember this as you work through these blues starting licks! 3 Licks for starting a blues solo 1:07 All these licks are coming from the A minor pentatonic and A blues scale. See th...

Learn 4 awesome natural minor scale guitar licks for rock and metal soloing!. The natural minor scale or aeolian mode is an essential rock soloing tool used by rock and metal guitarists. In this guitar lesson you'll learn how to use it too.  Learn the  most common natural minor scale pattern (in D minor), discover how to use a 'minor pentatonic framework as a starting point for your own natural minor scale licks, learn when to use the natural minor scale and discover how to combine the natural minor and blues scale for awesome rock and metal sounds. So what is the natural minor scale or aeolian mode? I like to think of it as a minor pentatonic with two added notes (the 2nd and flattened 6th). These notes give the natural minor scale it's distinctive 'darker' sound. It's a great scale choice for playing rock and metal licks in minor keys...and in most cases the notes in the natural minor scale will work well in this setting. From time to time the added notes mi...

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...

This pinch harmonics tutorial shows you how to quickly nail those squealers every time! Grab your guitar technique and soloing  Video Powerpack here: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/video-powerpack-page-new/ Pinch Harmonics Tutorial- How to Get Monster Pinch Harmonics! How do you play pinch harmonics? This pinch harmonics tutorial will show you all the secrets! Get those 'screaming' squealies like you hear in the playing of the legends,  In this guitar lesson you'll learn the technique for nailing pinch harmonics plus secrets about how to use them in your guitar solos. Grab your guitar and let's get pinching!. Pinch Harmonics Tutorial - How to Play Pinch Harmonics Lesson breakdown: 0:23 Check out this intro jam to hear a demo of what pinch harmonics sound like. In this guitar lesson you'll learn what pinch harmonics are, how to get them and how to make them sound awesome. Let's jump in! 0:30 Pinch harmonics...what are they? If you don't know wha...

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 ...

Don't kill your guitar picking technique by making these 5 common picking mistakes! In this picking lesson we cover picking hand tips, picking hand position, holding the pick, alternate picking and more. I'll also show you 3 simple alternate picking technique exercises you can use to practice and develop your picking chops. So jump in and give your picking technique a workout! FREE video powerpack here: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/video-powerpack-page-new/ I started my channel to you the kind of 'BS free' and no nonsense guitar lessons I think you want.  So if you want to understand 'how to play'...rather than just learn 'what to play'  then subscribe and look out for all my regular weekly (mostly!) lessons. Dig in, have fun...and thanks for watching!  SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgEEEz7ZNL8572YERffNfuw?sub_confirmation=1  Check out http://jamesshipwayguitar.com for hours of free guitar lessons, free e books and j...

Learn minor pentatonic rock licks as used by the biggest names in rock and metal guitar. Let's face it: the minor pentatonic scale is the most commonly used scale in rock guitar, so without a good range of pentatonic rock licks to use, playing a great rock solo is going to be tough! But this minor pentatonic rock licks guitar lesson has got you covered, with on-screen guitar tab and a range of cool minor pentatonic moves including alternate picking licks, double stops and powerful minor pentatonic bends. With this guitar tutorial learning minor pentatonic rock licks is easy to...meaning you can be using them in your rock guitar solos soon. All these licks are using the 'shape 1' E minor pentatonic scale pattern played up at the 12th fret. You probably know this already, but if not use the fingering and on screen guitar tab in this video to quickly learn it. 0:55 The first minor pentatonic rock lick uses a mixture of alternate picking and a common but powerful repeating ...

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! ...

Better blues rhythm guitar chops with chord fragments, 9th chords and blues bassline riffs. Grab the FREE Workbook for this lesson here: https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/blues-rhythm-guitar-tricks-opt-in Check out my Total Guitar Lab academy and see what you get here: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/total-guitar-lab-home/ Sick of those same old blues rhythm guitar shuffles and barre chords? Kick your blues rhythm chops up a notch with this blues rhythm lesson and discover how to use chord fragments, ninth chords and rhythm riffs in your rhythm guitar style. Blues Rhythm Chops Ex 1: Chord Fragments  Chord Fragments are fragments of larger chords and they are powerful blues rhythm guitar tools. See this example to learn how to use them straight away in your playing. Blues Rhythm Chops Ex 2: 9th Chords 9th chords can act as substitutes for Dominant 7 chords, so instead of playing A7 in your 12 bar blues, you could play A9 instead. This adds much more colour to the 12 bar blu...

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...