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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 your free Rock Jam Pack (backing tracks, lick lessons, scales etc) Perfect for practicing your repeating licks over: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/jam-pack-redirect-page/ Repeating Rock Licks - How To Make Your Own Awesome Repeating Rock Guitar Licks! Learn how to easily create dozens (even hundreds) of awesome sounding repeating licks to use for high energy guitar solos. Repeating licks are an easy and effective way to create exciting, high energy guitar solos and we hear them used by all the great rock and metal players like Slash, Vai, Page, Rhoads - pretty much all of 'em use some repeating licks in their solos. But how can you come up with your own awesome repeating licks? Well stay tuned because in this video I'll show you an easy way you can create ear catching repeating rock licks from our old friend the blues scale! Repeating Rock Licks - How To Make Your Own Awesome Repeating Rock Guitar Licks! 0:15 Repeating licks demo. Hear me solo using some repeat...

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...

Blues Guitar Turnarounds Lesson - How To Use a Blues Turnaround Lick Game changing Blues Improvisation tips, technique workouts and more in my free Members Only Video Powerpack! Get it here:http://jamesshipwayguitar.com/sign-up Learn how to add a blues guitar turnaround lick onto the end of your guitar solo. Perfect for guitar solos on the 12 bar blues. Blues Guitar Turnaround Lesson Welcome to another episode of the Ask James Guitar Show where it's all about how to add a blues guitar turnaround lick onto the end of your blues solos. This isn't essential but it's a handy thing to be able to do, lending your blues solos an authentic and bluesy sound. Here's a breakdown of the lesson: 0:25 One of my Members at http://jamesshipwayguitar.com has asked a cool question!  If you're playing a solo how can you add a turnaround lick onto the end?  Here I demonstrate the turnaround lick we're going to be using on the end of our solo. It's in the key of G an...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...