James Shipway Guitar

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...

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...

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...

4 awesome rock guitar licks in my free Michael Schenker Licks tab book : https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/michael-schenker Want some awesome rock guitar licks? Check out this hot rock lick from Michael Schenker.  This burning blues rock lick is coming from the C minor pentatonic blues scale and is a classic Michael Schenker lick. 0:34 Here's the Michael Schenker style lick played at full speed. It's similar to something he plays in his solo on 'Mother Mary' by UFO 0:44 Let's hear  the lick played slower now. Notice the use of common  rock bends and pentatonic scale patterns. Take these and use them to make up your own rock guitar licks. 0:57 Let's break this Michael Schenker lick down now and look at how to play it one note at a time. These blues scale ideas are typical of Michael Schenkers awesome rock guitar licks 3:56 Let's have another listen to the whole lick played fast again over the backing track. Join my FREE Facebook group 'James Ship...