James Shipway Guitar

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...

Practice these killer rock licks with my free jampack (lesson and backing track): https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/jam-pack-redirect-page/ Killer Rock Licks - Unison Bends for Killer Licks! Play killer rock licks with these essential unison bends! You've heard these used by all your favourite blues rock guitar players in their licks and solos...now it's your turn to use them too.  In this guitar lesson you'll learn the technique for nailing unison bends plus how you can start using them right away to build your own cool blues rock licks. Grab your guitar and let's get bending! Killer  Rock Licks - Unison Bends for Killer Licks Lesson breakdown: 0:09 Blues Rock Licks demo with unison bends. Check out this intro jam to hear the kind of blues rock licks you can play with the unison bends you're going to learn in this guitar lesson. 0:31 Unison bends...what are they? If you don't know what unison bends are, well you've definitely heard them before! ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

BB King Licks Guitar Lesson : Tasty BB King licks to use in your blues guitar solos! Grab the free BB king licks tab book for this video here: https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/bb-king-book In this BB King licks lesson you'll learn a tasty blues lick from the master of soulful blues guitar. It's showing off some of BB's favourite blues soloing devices including the 'minor to major 3rd move', mixing up notes from the minor and major pentatonic scales and a cool, funky BB King style double stop (works great in blues solos!). Look out for more BB King licks coming very soon in my Quick Licks video series.  Enjoy! Remember to grab your free BbB King licks book with tab for all the licks in the series: https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/bb-king-book SUBSCRIBE here for more BB King soon: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgEEEz7ZNL8572YERffNfuw?sub_confirmation=1 Join my FREE Facebook group 'James Shipway Guitar Backstage'. Video broadcasts, lick challenges and a ...

W atch this Gary Moore Licks lesson to learn a classic Gary Moore lick from 'Walking By Myself'. Free Gary Moore licks tab book here: http://jamesshipwayguitar.com/gary-mo... This Gary Moore lick shows Gary playing in the key of E using shape 4 E blues scale at the 7th fret. After some tasty B string bends Gary launches into a repeating picking lick using the chromatic passage from the blues scale on the D string. Use alternate picking for this and a healthy dose of palm muting for a fat and chunky sound. This is a trick you'll hear in many Gary Moore style licks and on many of Gary's greatest solos like 'Out In the Fields' and 'White Knuckles'. Make sure to check out all the cool shape 4 moves used in this lick . You can use them to come up with some Gary Moore style licks of your own! 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'...r...