
Nick Kellie demonstrates cool ways to enhance your playing.
Lesson 1
Nick Kellie demonstrates how to incorporate harp harmonics into your playing.
Length: 7:37 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 2
Nick Kellie demonstrates how the economy picking technique is performed.
Length: 17:24 Difficulty: 2.5 FREELesson 3
Nick Kellie demonstrates and talks more about economy picking.
Length: 5:57 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 4
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.
Length: 17:12 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 5
In this short lesson, Nick discusses adding flair to your rhythm playing by embellishing your chord progressions.
Length: 10:00 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 6
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...
Length: 11:02 Difficulty: 2.5 Members OnlyLesson 7
In this lesson, Nick provides a primmer course on ear training. By matching intervals with popular songs, you can help develop an ear towards basic interval spacing.
Length: 12:44 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
About Nick Kellie
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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.
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Member Comments about this Lesson
Discussions with our instructors are just one of the many benefits of becoming a member of JamPlay.Nick, should you always start an economy picking pattern with a downstroke no matter if your going to ascend or decend?
its a downstroke if you are ascending with an odd number of notes on the string or up if it is an even number of notes on the string... then it is up descending with an odd number of notes on the string or down if there is an even number
Nice lesson as always Nick. This economy picking is really tricky at first. I imagine it will take some time to really incorporate it into my playing.
hey nick, nice demo at the beginnnig of this lesson!! really cool man! i cant wait till you can make it to one of our jams! its gonna be great!
thanks, Mike! me too... it will be a blast for sure!