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...

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...

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...

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...

BEGINNERS BLUES LICKS LESSON PART ONE: In this video tutorial you will learn 3 blues licks for beginners. These basic blues licks are essential for all blues guitarists, and once you can play these licks you're well on your way to being a bluesman! Inside these beginners blues licks you'll find many of the essential tools used by the blues guitar greats: the tastiest string bends, double stops and blues rhythms to give your licks that bluesy groove. These blues licks are all coming from the A blues scale played at the 5th fret and will all work great over a 12 bar blues in A. The blues scale is the most often used scale for soloing and improvising in blues and rock. If you are just starting out in blues licks you should definitely check out this video to learn it, and get a bunch of ideas to use from it. And with these blues licks in your arsenal, you'll be all set to start trying to play your own blues solos and improvisations.  Practice to the backing track for this...

4 awesome rock guitar licks in my free Michael Schenker Licks tab book : https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/michael-schenker Want some awesome rock guitar licks? Check out this hot rock lick from Michael Schenker.  This burning blues rock lick is coming from the C minor pentatonic blues scale and is a classic Michael Schenker lick. 0:34 Here's the Michael Schenker style lick played at full speed. It's similar to something he plays in his solo on 'Mother Mary' by UFO 0:44 Let's hear  the lick played slower now. Notice the use of common  rock bends and pentatonic scale patterns. Take these and use them to make up your own rock guitar licks. 0:57 Let's break this Michael Schenker lick down now and look at how to play it one note at a time. These blues scale ideas are typical of Michael Schenkers awesome rock guitar licks 3:56 Let's have another listen to the whole lick played fast again over the backing track. Join my FREE Facebook group 'James Ship...

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 ...