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Here you find one chorus of an example on how to play an easy blues guitar solo over the full fretboard by using the pos. 1 / 2 and 4 of the minor pentatonic. This is sufficient to fulfill the task. The example opens up with a standard opening and then quickly moves on to the high position to then come back to the very low position with a run.
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If you are a beginner on guitar and you love to play rock and you still can not play the basics chords :
then these tabs are for you. Here you can start with the most easy ways of playing rock guitar power chords and you can already start to play your first rock guitar riffs even if you still are struggling with guitar chords. There are 3 keys + available. The keys of Em and Am work well because you can work with easy open string power chords and any other key works with the power chord inversions which are very easy to grab. The focus here is on your learning process of the basic rhythm figures with full, half, quarter and 8th notes. In rock guitar the rhythm is very important so get to know those basic rhythm figures, also the pauses and start to practice them with the beginners power chords to be ready for the basic power chords with more complex rhythms :
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Here you find a great working sheet to get you advanced shuffle blues guitar nailed. You find the scales which are used and a selection of licks and elements which you can use on the chords A7, D7 and E7. The backing track is a standard shuffle blues in the key of A :
A7 / A7 / A7 / A7
D7 / D7 / A7 / A7
E7 / D7 / A7 / E7
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Here you find some exercises on a II V I progression in G by using an alteration on the D7 chord. The altered mode ist the VIIth level of the melodic minor scale. So in this case it would be Eb melodic minor. I have selected a tempo of 100 bpm for this exercise so that you have enough time to figure out the sound and usage of the altered mode.
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Here you find the tabs of a very cool blues guitar which you can play on any guitar but it sounds best on a steel string guitar played with finger picking. You also find a cool and simple melody which fits perfect to the cool vibe of this acoustic blues guitar song.
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Here you find tabs of a basic rock guitar tune in the key of Am. You find ideas for the damping techniques in rock guitar and variations on the rock guitar power chords. You also find some basic exercises on the main lead techniques in rock guitar. There are 2 backing tracks added. One is only drum and bass and the other one is with an additional guitar that you can practice some lead guitar as well.
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Whenever a student enters my room and wants to learn guitar from the very beginning I always say the same thing : " First everybody needs to learn the basic chords on guitar . If you practice regularly on a daily basis you can make the basic chords in a fluent way in 3 - 6 months in order that you are able to play any simple song as you can see in this example. The really big mountain to climb is the barré chord. That one might take 6 months or more till you can play that one fluently in a simple song. To get the barré chord done you first start with the barré replacement chord. You have to figure out how you need to place your finger in a way that all strings are sounding. Normally a beginner is able to get 4 strings sounding at the beginning. This will improve with practice. Once you can do the barré replacement chord then you can move on to the barré chord.
Playing the simple songs pay attention to the proper down - and upstrokes and also notice that the last upstroke of a bar is an empty chord. This helps you to make the chord change fluently.
To fulfill the described tasks in the estimated timeframe you need to practice this daily and do each exercise 3 times. Once you pass this threshold then your fun on guitar can start.

Here you find some basic comping ideas which you can use on the tune " Take the A Train ". Beside that you find the scales which you can use in the improvisation on a very basic level on this jazz standard and last but not least you find the diatonic chords in the key of C so that you understand where you need to make the adjustment of the scale.
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Here you find a selection of creative slow rock guitar chords. The chord progression is quite simple : Em / Em / C / C / D / D / Em / Em
I transformed those very common chords to some modern sounding slow rock guitar chords : Esus2 / Esus / Csus2 / Csus2 / Dsus2 / Dsus2 / Esus2 / Esus2The backing track is only drums and bass so that you have the full space to become creative. 
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Here you find some tabs about all basics you need to know about basic blues guitar. It starts with the basic chords, the form, the rhythm and the difference between shuffle and straight blues and then some really basic blues riffs. For the improvisation I made some tabs of a basic blues guitar improvisation with question, answer and resolution + how to make some variations and to play the same thing in a different position.
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Here you find a beautiful Spanish chord progression which uses some open string chords which make a simple chord progression sound wonderful. In the tabs you also find a simple melody which fits perfectly to those chords. You can use the cinematic backing track to practice the chords or to improvise. It's beautiful and wonderful.
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Here you find some really hard exercises where you can practice to make modal interchange on a simple progession : D-7 / G7 / Cmjaj7 / Cmaj7
There are 4 different versions of the same progression available which can help to understand and to make first steps into modal interchange.
D-7 is always the dorian mode
G7 mixolydian / G7#11 mixolydian #11 / G7b13 mixolydian b13 / G7b9b13 altered
Cmaj7 ionian / Cmaj7#11 lydian
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Here you find a nice selection of G dorian riffs, patterns and licks from easy till advanced. The backing track added is this vamp here : G-7 / G-7 / C7 / C7
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Here you find the tabs of Eric Clapton's song " Crossroads " in the original version by Cream. In the tabs you find the rhythm guitar and the backing track is held in 60's style and it's only drums and bass which you also hear in the original version.
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Here you find a selection of mixolydian blues guitar licks which you can use on A7 and D7 or any other chord when you transpose them to the new chord. The backing track is great to practice those licks since it repeats this form here as a vamp : A7 / A7 / D7 / D7
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A lot of students have difficulties in understanding why intervals are so important to understand modes. Here are a few exercises where the modes are all played starting from the C on the 3rd fret on the A string. Here you can see the difference of the modes very well and you can understand how they are built. Once you can alter from one mode to another in just one position then you can start to do this everywhere on the fretboard. All you need to know are the intervals of each mode and where to find each interval in relation to the root note of the mode. This exercise seems to be small and easy but this is the main thing you need to learn if you want to be able to play freely on the entire fretboard. Every mode is defined through the intervals in relation to the root note.

Here you find a selection of beautiful acoustic guitar chords in the key of C. You can make variations on the form of the tune in a way that you like. The audio shows you how those tabs sound alike.
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Here you find the tabs of the jazz tune " Midnight Blue " by Kenny Burrell. There are several versions out there in the internet. I took the one which goes with the original. The backing track is also created as near as possible to the original track with only drum and bass.
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Here you find some exercises to work with modes in a simple rock guitar tune with the progression : C#m / C#m / A / A / B / B / C#m / C#m
I am using the basic patterns of the modes technical exercises. I strongly recomment that you work on all of them when you want to get deeper into modes in any genre :
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Here you find some really cool examples of a minor blues riff in the key of Am in combination with some fill-ins. There are 2 backing tracks added. One is only drums and bass and the 2nd one has an organ added if you don't feel confortable with the puristic trio formation.
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Here you find a summary of exercises for the double handed guitar tapping ( touch technique ) where you can work out basic chord rhythms. These exercises are basic exercises taken from basic left - right hand independence exercises from piano playing. There are basically 2 types of exercises. You have those where you do ostinato figures with the left and right hand and make combinations and figures where you do independant figures of the left and the right hand. The selected chord progression is Am / Am / G / G . A very simple progression which includes both types of chords. There is an audio file added that you can hear how the tabs should sound alike.
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Here you find the tabs of the shapes of the C#minor, A & B major arpeggios. They are embedded in the shapes of the D, C, A and E typ chords. You can practice them with the backing track added here. The backing track is a loop of the chord progression C#m / C#m / A / A / B / B / C#m / C#m
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Here you find some basic timing exercises where you can practice your timing in shuffle blues guitar. This one is in the key of A and using the very standard blues form. It is very important that you practice this with your foot on 2 & 4 - that's the main goal and that's why the rest seems to be so simple. You can practice this either just with your foot or if you want some " help " with the backing track.
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Here you find some simple jazz guitar exercises which work on a simple chord progression : F7 / F7 / F7 / F7 / Bb7 / Bb7 / Bb7 / Bb7
It starts that you first work on your 2 & 4 feel with your foot. All execises have to be done with the 2 & 4 feel. They seem to look easy but they are not if you never have done them before.
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Here you find a great minor blues backing track in the key of Am. In the tabs you find the chords and the advanced modes which you can use in this minor blues.
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