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Rock Guitar with Matt: Harmonic Minor

Lesson 21 of his Matt's rock guitar series begins the discussion and demonstration of the harmonic minor scale and tonality. This scale features the raised 7th leading tone of the major scale with the minor scale tonality. Often referred to as the middle eastern, or Arabian scale, it's sound is quite unique.

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• Jul 20th, 2009 @ 5:51 PM EDT
• Posted by Jason.Mounce

Rock Guitar with Matt: Non-Diatonic Progressions

It's Friday. Time to ROCK! Matt returns to his rock series with a lesson on solo techniques for non-diatonic progressions. In this lesson, Matt will be demonstrating written and improvised solos for the songs Alive and Heaven Beside You.

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• Jul 17th, 2009 @ 3:17 PM EDT
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Video Q&A with Dave, Jim and Mark

Recently Jim Deeming, Mark Lincoln and David MacKenzie made a trip over to the JamPlay studios in Colorado to film some video Q&A answers. The thrilling trio answered the following questions in this sessions:

- Budd asked about Last Steam Engine Train.
- Miles977 asked about playing scales and palm muting.
- Blueguitar420 asked about natural harmonics on an acoustic guitar.
- Drnat1 asked about figuring out strumming patterns to songs
- Matej asked about adjusting the truss rod on his guitar.
- Hana14 asked about playing guitar with a broken finger.
- Sheldon 31 asked about creating an effects chain / loop.
- Akilots asked about guitars with a Floyd Rose system.
- Akelley asked about writing backing tracks.
- Colton582 asked about a pinging noise he hears when tuning his Strat.
- Sidewinder665 asked about playing the F chord.

That's all for now! If you have a question you would like answered on video (no song requests) please ask us your questions. You can also visit one of our many live webcam sessions as well.

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• Jul 16th, 2009 @ 7:53 PM EDT
• Posted by jbooth

Erik Mongrain: Harmonics - Strummed, Clawed, & Flicked

Erik shows you some more of his moves in this installment of the harmonics mini-series. In this lesson he shows harmonics that can be played by strumming, clawing, and flicking them.

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• Jul 16th, 2009 @ 12:54 PM EDT
• Posted by AaronMiller

Jazz Guitar with Matt Brown: Adding Voices

In lesson 18 of his jazz series, Matt Brown takes a more in depth look at some cool jazz voicings that you can add into your 12 bar blues comping. Matt will then provide you with an opportunity to comp along with him using the Charleston rhythm.

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• Jul 15th, 2009 @ 4:42 PM EDT
• Posted by Jason.Mounce

Celtic Lesson 11 with Steve Eulberg

In the eleventh addition to Steve Eulberg's fantastic Celtic series, you will learn the tune "O'Keefe's Slide." In upcoming lessons, you will learn about musical ornaments that can be applied to this song and others, so be sure to practice this catchy tune.

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• Jul 15th, 2009 @ 4:24 PM EDT
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Erik Mongrain: Harmonics - Slapped, Tapped, & Popped

In this lesson Erik show some more of his harmonics moves. He covers slapping, tapping, and popping harmonics. Each move produces a different sound with the harmonic.

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• Jul 15th, 2009 @ 1:00 PM EDT
• Posted by AaronMiller

Kris Norris: Mastering Modes Mini Series: Lydian

In this installment of the "Mastering Modes" mini series Kris covers the 4th mode of the major scale which is Lydian. He shows the target tones and also explains the chords that bring out the Lydian mode.

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• Jul 14th, 2009 @ 8:32 PM EDT
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Jazz Guitar with Matt Brown: Expanding on the 12 Bar Blues

In lesson 17 of his jazz series, Matt provides a review of the 12 bar blues form and expands on it for the jazz style of playing. During the lesson Matt will be providing voice options for two of the most popular blues keys. F and B flat.

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• Jul 14th, 2009 @ 5:40 PM EDT
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Celtic Guitar Lesson 10 with Steve Eulberg

Lesson 10 in Steve Eulberg's fun Celtic series is now live! In this lesson, Steve shows and talks about some great resources for songs and more. If you love Celtic music, you won't want to miss this lesson.

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• Jul 13th, 2009 @ 10:02 PM EDT
• Posted by nessa