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...

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...

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 ...