Tips and Tricks with Nick Kellie

Skill Building Guitar Course from Nick Kellie

Nick Kellie demonstrates useful methods to enhance, and add depth to your playing.

7 Lessons

Complete course with step-by-step lessons and practice examples.

Multi-Camera

Course filmed with 6 cameras for the perfect angles.

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Full Course Breakdown

In this series, Nick Kellie discusses and demonstrates various ways to add style to your playing.

1

Harp Harmonics

Nick Kellie demonstrates how to incorporate harp harmonics into your playing.

7:37 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

2

Economy Picking

Nick Kellie demonstrates how the economy picking technique is performed.

17:24 Runtime

2.5 Difficulty

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3

More Economy Picking

Nick Kellie demonstrates and talks more about economy picking.

5:57 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

4

Double Stop Bends

Nick Kellie offers up another trick for your bag. In this lesson, he discusses and demonstrates how to incorporate double stop bends into your playing.

17:12 Runtime

2.5 Difficulty

5

Adding Embellishments to Chord Progressions

In this short lesson, Nick discusses adding flair to your rhythm playing by embellishing your chord progressions.

10:00 Runtime

2.5 Difficulty

6

String Skipping Exercise

Nick returns to his Tips and Tricks series with an exercise designed to help you with string skipping. Incorporating this picking technique into your playing well help open up your arpeggios and scale work.

11:02 Runtime

2.5 Difficulty

7

Basic Ear Training

In this lesson, Nick provides a primer course on ear training. By matching intervals with popular songs, you can help develop an ear for basic intervallic distances.

12:44 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

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  • Playing since 1992
  • 155 lessons at JamPlay
Nick was awarded the BBC Big Band Jazz awards "John Dankworth trophy for outstanding young soloist" and recorded a special show for BBC radio 2. He was invited to become a member of the Wigan Jazz Orchestra, and has played as part of the Wigan International Jazz Festival. He has played extensive gigs which include accompaniment, reading, soloing as well as styles ranging from Soul, R&B, Blues, Rock and Jazz in locations such as London, Norway, Germany and Greece.

Nick, with his professional approach towards music, brings enthusiasm and musicality to every project he is involved with. As well as being a guitarist Nick is also a fine vocalist and can sing lead vocals as well as backing vocals.

In London Nick has been involved with many projects such as Fresh Claim, which features Nick on guitar, and Jon Plotel on Bass (Billy Ocean, The Real Thing) and Vanessa Haynes band featuring members of Jeff Beck group, Eric Clapton’s Band and Allan Holdsworth’s Band. For a time Nick resided in Nashville TN where he played with many local musicians. In addition he also played in a Jazz Fusion band named "Shammah", with whom he has recorded an album.

Most recently Nick was signed to Digital Nations www.digital-nations.com - part of Steve Vai's record label and has recorded an album entitled "For A Brother" with his band "Nick Kellie Band". Upon hearing the album, Steve contacted Nick with regard to a release on his own label. It has been released in the USA, Europe and Asia. As well as this, Nick is also an endorsee of Elixir guitar strings, which are world-renowned.

Nick Also contributed to around 21 issues of Europe's biggest selling guitar magazine - "Total Guitar" in his series of articles, "Techniques of the rich and famous" and "Steal their style".

Having taught at Europe's top two guitar schools, Nick was also appointed as head of the guitar department at Guitar Getaways.
Reviews & Feedback 93/100 with 27 ratings
skoatdestroy

Great lesson Nick. l like it lots

godescbach

Liked the teacher too.

EFa

Nick Kellie - Basic Ear Training: Lesson is extremely useful and would be better with a couple of corrections: [1] Content got a little confusing when he referred to Somewhere Over the Rainbow for two intervals (7th, octave). [2] I belie