James Shipway Guitar

Turbocharge your alternate picking technique and learn a bunch of cool picking licks with this Members Only special! I've had a whole bunch of questions about Alternate Picking so I've put together a short picking workout for you to practice. It's packed full of common picking moves and licks to help you supercharge this essential guitar skill. Let's get started! Here's a breakdown of this lesson: 0:26 Here's a demo of the workout we're going to use in this lesson. It's great as an exercise, a warmup and is also made up of some cool picking lick ideas you can pinch and use in your soloing. 0:55 When I play things like this study I use strict down/up picking all the way. Sometimes I'll use a more sweep picking based approach but I find alternate picking works best for me most of the time. Adapt the picking I describe here to suit you - but be consistent with how you're playing it! 1:22 Here are a few essential tips about alternate pickin...

Sign Up for the Free Rock Training! Starts 11th July 2016. Grab your seat here: https://jamesshipway.leadpages.co/rock-lick-lab-opt-in-page/ Guitar Solo Lesson - What Nobody Tells You (Rhythm is KING!) What's the magic ingredient that makes everything sound awesome? The thing most guitar books and DVDs don't even mention? RHYTHM. Let me say that again. RHYTHM Rhythm is the key to sounding great on guitar! In this lesson we'll look at a really simple way you can start to focus on it more in your playing...with great results really fast! Guitar Solo Lesson - What nobody ever tells you about playing a great solo!  (guitar lesson breakdown) 0:24 Rhythm is the most important thing to nail when we play a solo. How do we know? Because every great sounding player has a strong rhythmic groove! The fact is the right notes with a boring rhythmic feel will always sound boring...but 'weird' notes with amazing rhythm- can sound amazing (John Coltrane, Scott Hend...

Supercharge your guitar technique and soloing with my free Video Powerpack: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/video-powerpack-page-new/ Alternate Picking Exercises - For Faster, More Accurate Picking! Need some alternate picking exercises to supercharge your alternate picking technique, fret hand accuracy and speed? In this video I'll show you a cool alternate picking exercise you can use to do exactly that. Let's dive in and start boosting your alternate picking! 0:10 In this lesson you'll learn a short alternate picking exercise for powering up your picking and fretting hand speed, accuracy and co-ordination. It's not the most musical of exercises and you probably wouldn't play it in a solo, but it's a powerful workout for your alternate picking and a great warmup exercise too. 0:42 Alternate picking exercises like this can be moved around anywhere on the guitar but we'll start on the D string at the 5th fret. Follow the picking guidelines and finger...

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...

A void other common guitar mistakes and explode your guitar skills with my free guitar powerpack here: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/video-... Common Guitar Mistakes Beginner and Intermediate Guitar Players Make Learn how to avoid and how to fix some of the most common mistakes beginner and intermediate guitar players make when it comes to learning to solo. Overcome these and you really can supercharge your progress, improve faster on guitar and stop getting held up. Common Guitar Mistake 1- Weak Finger Independence and Accuracy This can cause you to press down on the strings too hard making notes sound out of tune. Poor finger accuracy can also lead to lifting up the fingers after playing a note., slowing you down and making it hard to play smoothly. Common Guitar Mistake 2 - Picking Problems Don't use too much pick when you play. It's way harder to get good controlled picking. Just use the very tip of the pick. And make sure your picking hand stays close to the ...