James Shipway Guitar

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...

A guitar warm up routine to get you warmed up and ready to play in minutes. You don't want to spend half of your guitar practice routine getting warmed up...you want to be playing! Following this 3-5 minute warm up routine for guitar will get your fingers looser, your hands relaxed...and over time will also help build faster and stronger guitar fingers, finger independence and speed and fluency too!  Warming up is an important part of your guitar practice, but how can you do it? There are lots of ways, but I like to use the 5 short warm exercises here. They use bends, trills, down picks, up picks and alternate picking to get both your fretting hand and picking hand ready to play. To make them easier to remember I decided to put them together into a short warm up routine to use at the start of all my guitar practice sessions. Remember the goal is to get warmed up: these exercises are not about playing fast! Do them slowly and accurately in a relaxed fashion - this is important! ...

Learn 6 guitar scale patterns you need to know for playing rock, blues, metal and other styles of guitar in this 'no bull' guitar tutorial. Let's face it, we guitar players need to know at least a few scale patterns if we want to play fluently. But with so many scale patterns on guitar, where do you begin? With the most important and useful ones of course! That's why I made this video. I want to show you 6 of the most common guitar scale patterns that guitarists use when they play so you can start to play your own licks and melodies on the guitar just like your favourite players do. This guitar lesson will teach you scale patterns on guitar for the minor pentatonic scale, blues scale, the natural minor scale or Aeolian mode, major pentatonic and the major scale. We'll also discuss the concept of the root note, and how to use it to move any of these scales into any key on the guitar neck (essential stuff for any aspiring guitar soloist or improviser!) 1:09 Minor ...

Guitar practice time? Here are 5 tools which you'll need to help you get the most from your session and see great results every time you practice your guitar. Just deciding to 'practice guitar' won't get you where you want to be unless you're doing it the right way! The 5 guitar practice tools I share in this video will help you stay on track, remember what you've learned, develop a good practice routine , manage your practice time more efficiently and ultimately make you a better guitar player! Having these 5 practice tools in your practice room will help you get off to a flying start with your practice session, so keep them close by. Let's look at them one by one: 1) Timer to help you break up your session and cover all the areas you want to practice. A small digital egg timer is perfect, or you can use the stopwatch on your phone 2) Blank tab paper to keep a record of any cool ideas you discover. We can learn a lot from ourselves when we do our guit...