James Shipway Guitar

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...

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...

Beginner Rock Guitar Licks Lesson Part 2 shows you 3 more rock guitar licks that are perfect for the beginner to intermediate rock guitar player. These rock guitar licks are great for beginners or intermediate guitarists...but even your favourite rock guitar legend is using them too! Guitar solos by Gary Moore, Slash, Schenker, Randy Rhoads, Kirk Hammett have all used licks just like these ones. So these 'beginner rock licks' are super powerful...whatever level of player you are so dive in and learn how to play and use them, and get them into your solos to build yourself an awesome rock or metal guitar style! 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 scaler rock lick is similar to something played by Slash in his "Sweet Child 'o' Mine' solo. Follow the picking and bending guidelines in the lesson (they're important!) and watch that 'blues curl' at the start! 4:15 B...