James Shipway Guitar

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...

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...

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...

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...

More guitar soloing tips and techniques in my free 'Soloing Bootcamp'. Join here: https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/soloingbootcamp  5 guitar soloing tips and techniques to help you avoid common solo sucking traps! In this short guitar tutorial I'll show you 5 quick guitar soloing tips and techniques for mastering guitar solos - whether you are a rock or blues player. By following my 15 minute practice routine – that’s 3 minutes per technique – you will soon see big improvements in your solos. You’ll learn how to master some of the soloing basics, from adding contrast, repetition and pauses (yep, it’s totally OK NOT to play every second of every solo) to nailing the groove of your solo. Check this lesson out and let these guitar soloing tips and techniques take your solos up a gear. Here's a breakdown of the lesson: 0:27 Guitar Soloing Tip #1 - Space! Make sure you're leaving some space between your licks and phrases as you solo. Otherwise it becomes a ...

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...

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...