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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...

Grab my free jampack with lesson backing track and video lessons here: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/jam-pack-redirect-page/ Double Stops Guitar Lesson for Killer Rock Guitar Licks! Create killer rock guitar licks with these essential double stop moves! Perfect for high energy rock and metal solos. This double stops guitar lesson will show you exactly how to do this using double stops from Slash, Angus Young, Michael Schenker, Zakk Wylde and others! Double Stops Guitar Lesson for Killer Rock Guitar Licks! Here's what you learn in this guitar lesson: 00:07 Hear me jamming using some of the double stops I'll show you in this lessons. 0:35 Double stops - what are they? A double stop is simply two notes played together on the guitar, kind of like a 'mini chord'. They give a  chordal sound to your rock solos and break up the sound of 'single note' licks and runs to create cool contrast. 1:00 Let's look at a set of essential double stops and a sampl...

Transform your blues soloing with this blues soloing lesson. Grab my free 'Video Powerpack' here: https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/sign-up/ Blues Soloing Lesson - 3 Tricks for Killer Blues Licks! In this special blues soloing lesson you'll learn 3 easy to use blues moves for killer blues licks in your solos. You've heard these played by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, Eric Clapton...all the blues legends. With what this blues guitar lesson shows you, you'll be able to use them too. Blues Soloing Lesson - 3 Tricks for Killer Blues Licks! In this lesson you'll learn 3 simple tricks you can use for killer blues licks and  better blues guitar solos.  Let's dive in! 0:40 Everything in this blues guitar lesson is shown in the key of G and uses these blues scale patterns shown. All the blues licks and ideas will work great over a 12 bar blues in the key of G but make sure you move it to other keys as well. 1:17 Killer Blues Trick 1 If there's one mu...

Grab my free jampack with lesson backing track and video lessons here: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/jam-pack-redirect-page/ Guitar Soloing - 3 Tips for a Great Start to Your Solo! Get a powerful start to your rock guitar soloing every time with these 3 great tips. A powerful start to your solo will grab the listeners attention and make them pay attention to what you're playing, a weak start to your guitar solo and they might not even listen at all. Use these 3 tips for your guitar soloing which will make people listen and have more impact every time! Guitar Soloing - 3 Tips for a Great Start to Your Solo! Here's what you learn in this guitar lesson: 00:50 A bad start to your guitar solo can spoil it from the start. Here I demo how lots of players start their solos. It doesn't really grab the listeners attention and make them want to hear the rest. 1:21 When we play a guitar solo we need to 'set it up' and announce to the listener that a solo is coming...

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...

Supercharge your guitar technique and soloing with my free Video Powerpack: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/video-powerpack-page-new/ Bending Vibrato Guitar Lesson -How to Add Vibrato to String Bends Adding vibrato to your string bending can sound awesome and bring your string bending technique to life. But getting your bending vibrato sounding good on string bends can be tough! In this guitar lesson you'll learn the technique for adding vibrato to your string bends whilst avoiding many of the common vibrato mistakes most players make. Bending Vibrato Guitar Lesson - How to Add Vibrato to String Bends Lesson breakdown: 0:23 Hear a demo of what vibrato sounds like with string bends. Notice how it makes bends so much more expressive and energetic! 0:48 Bending Technique and hand Position If you're getting a poor sounding string bend to start with...then no amount of vibrato will get it sounding good! Here we look at some key pointers for solid bending technique. I su...

Open String Blues - Stevie Ray Vaughan Style Licks Nail the open string blues scale plus two awesome open string blues licks in the style of the great Stevie Ray Vaughan. Grab full tab for this lesson in my free 'Blues Guitar Tab Bundle' https://jamesshipway.leadpages.co/blues-guitar-bundle-video-offer/ Learn how to create amazing blues guitar solos with the open string blues scale and play open string blues licks in the style of players like SRV, Hendrix, Clapton, Freddie King and others. I'll show you how to play E blues scale using the open strings and many cool ways you can use this scale in your guitar solos, using strings bending, slides and more. So let's get into it! Here's a breakdown of what you will learn in this video: 0:46 Let's take a look at how we play the E scale using the open strings. This scale shape is great for making up lots of 'twangy' open string licks...a favorite of players like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix and othe...

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...

More guitar soloing tips and techniques in my free 'Soloing Bootcamp'. Join here: https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/soloingbootcamp  5 guitar soloing tips and techniques to help you avoid common solo sucking traps! In this short guitar tutorial I'll show you 5 quick guitar soloing tips and techniques for mastering guitar solos - whether you are a rock or blues player. By following my 15 minute practice routine – that’s 3 minutes per technique – you will soon see big improvements in your solos. You’ll learn how to master some of the soloing basics, from adding contrast, repetition and pauses (yep, it’s totally OK NOT to play every second of every solo) to nailing the groove of your solo. Check this lesson out and let these guitar soloing tips and techniques take your solos up a gear. Here's a breakdown of the lesson: 0:27 Guitar Soloing Tip #1 - Space! Make sure you're leaving some space between your licks and phrases as you solo. Otherwise it becomes a ...

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 ...

Grab the FREE tab workbook for this David Gilmour guitar lesson here: https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/david-gilmour-optin David Gilmour Guitar Lesson This David Gilmour guitar lesson will teach you step by step how to play 3 famous David Gilmour guitar licks. They come from two of Gilmour's greatest solos with Pink Floyd: 'Comfortably Numb' and 'Another Brick In the Wall' and demonstrate important aspects of the David Gilmour guitar style. Lick 1 is in the key of B minor and is taken from the outro solo on Comfortably Numb. Notice how Gilmour adds the 9th to his minor pentatonic scale for a more interesting sound. Lick 2 is also taken from the outro Comfortably Numb solo. Lick 3 comes from the David Gilmour solo on Another Brick in the Wall. It's the lick that starts the solo and is in the key of D minor. Once you know the licks shown in this guitar lesson, you should take them and use them to make up your own David Gilmour style guitar licks! I sta...

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...

Grab the free workbook for this blues licks lesson: https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/blues-lesson-1-day-book-giveaway-copy Blues Licks Lesson- 7 Blues Licks Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King, Albert King, Eric Clapton Style You Need to Know In this blues licks lesson you'll learn 7 blues licks you need to know from the playing of blues guitar legends like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, BB King, Eric Clapton and others. All these licks are played in the key of A and are using the A minor pentatonic scale. Let's look at blues lick 1 0:46 Blues Lick 1. If there was ever a must know blues lick then this is probably it! It's used by all the blues guitar greats like Eric Clapton, SRV, Albert King etc and is a powerful lick to begin your blues solos with. 2:06 Blues Lick 2. This lick is borrowed from Stevie Ray Vaughan and is a lick he loved to play. Listen to his album Texas Flood to here licks like this used a lot. 3:14 Blues Lick 3. Albert King is an influential blues playe...