Introduction to Keith Urban (Guitar Lesson)
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Introduction to Keith Urban
To get things started in DJ's "Style of Keith Urban" lesson series, he discusses the lesson series and how it'll be broken down. He also covers a brief history of this now prolific modern country musician.
Taught by DJ Phillips in Style of Keith Urban seriesLength: 8:48Difficulty: 0.5 of 5
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Style of Keith Urban
Found in our Beginner Lesson SetsDJ Phillips takes a lick based look at the sound and stylistic approach of Keith Urban.
Lesson 1
Introduction to Keith Urban
To get things started in DJ's "Style of Keith Urban" lesson series, he discusses the lesson series and how it'll be broken down. He also covers a brief history of this now prolific modern country musician.
Length: 8:48 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
Melodic Playing
In the first technique-based lesson of his "Style of Keith Urban" series, DJ takes a look at how Keith adds melody to his playing. Most of these sound-a-like licks are mobile and can be added in to your...
Length: 25:34 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Harmonizing
Another key element of Keith Urban's playing is his twin lead harmonization. In this lesson, DJ offers up some examples of how Keith uses the twin guitar lead to harmonize all or parts of a riff or solo.
Length: 21:01 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Bending
As DJ has alluded to in previous lessons, Keith Urban places quite a bit of emphasis on bending in his playing. In this lesson, DJ covers some of the bend types and techniques utilized in the country genre...
Length: 25:42 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Open String Usage
In this lesson, DJ discusses and demonstrates how Keith Urban utilizes open string based licks in his playing. This technique is not only used extensively in Keith Urban's playing, but is also a staple...
Length: 21:17 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Chicken Pickin', Pops and Snaps
In this lesson DJ dissects some of the more percussive techniques utilized by Keith Urban in his playing.
Length: 20:33 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Double Stops and Chords
DJ begins to round out this series with examples of how Keith Urban uses double stops and chord-based licks in his playing.
Length: 14:40 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Rock and Blues Influence
In this lesson, DJ demonstrates rock and blues licks that Keith Urban likes to throw into his playing.
Length: 9:34 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
Bag of Tricks
For the final technique-based lesson of the series, DJ takes a look at the remaining tricks that Keith Urban utilizes in his playing. These include the use of unison bends, octaves, and various chromatic...
Length: 10:37 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Tone
To wrap up his series on the style of Keith Urban, DJ provides some insight in to how Keith's tone is created. He also talks about musicality in Keith's playing and what you can draw from this series.
Length: 5:53 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
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Like many guitar players who began playing around the same time, DJ began plunking out Nirvana and Soundgarden tunes when he first picked up the guitar in the mid-nineties. While these grunge-y roots certainly have their merit, it wasn't until DJ's eldest sister took him to a Led Zeppelin laser light show that the full potential of the guitar began to come into focus.
With Jimmy Page's Les Paul pyrotechnics as his inspiration, DJ began fervently practicing for hours on end in the suburban jungle of Southwestern Ohio. This newfound passion (combined with his complete lack of athletic prowess and physical coordination thus completely ruling out all sports) led him to form rock bands in junior high and high school. He grew to love the performance aspect of music and soon decided on it as a career path.
College led him to Nashville, Tennessee where he began to pursue a degree in Commercial Music at Belmont University. He also started another band and got his first professional theater gig the following summer. Since that summer, DJ has spent nearly every waking hour finding ways to play music and avoiding a real contribution to society in any other way.
He moved to Minneapolis after college, rocking out between theater gigs with his current rock band Brother Big Bad. He has now convinced the band to move to Nashville where music flows like water.
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Discussions with our instructors are just one of the many benefits of becoming a member of JamPlay.I'm sorry...but are you high? That doesn't sound anything like Keith Urban whose been my favorite country artist since On Golden Road followed by his epic Spring Break in Daytona Beach & his CMT special from his home studio. That fancy guitar is nothing like his gibson sg and those riffs you play sound like pop metal.Maybe Hunter Hayes. Good riffs but too fancy. Keith is part of his guitar and never sounds complicated tho it is.
I'm sorry...but are you high? That doesn't sound anything like Keith Urban whose been my favorite country artist since On Golden Road followed by his epic Spring Break in Daytona Beach & his CMT special from his home studio. That fancy guitar is nothing like his gibson sg and those riffs you play sound like pop metal.Maybe Hunter Hayes. Good riffs but too fancy. Keith is part of his guitar and never sounds complicated tho it is.
Great Song! Looking forward to this series. Thanks
DJ, Thank's for the series I can't wait to start.
I agree 100%, I've been hoping for some lessons on "todays" country music!! Way to go DJ!!!
woohoo. it begins. now hurry up and start postin the rest of these lessons :D
Jamplay definitely was in need of some more country. Good choice DJ. By the way, since you're in Nashville as well ... did you ever get to meet Keith?
DJ, thanks for this series. It'g going to begin to fill a big hole in the otherwise excellent JamPlay program. Incidentally, that's a terrific song. Can you put it out on your next CD, or does it belong to JP now? I don't imagine I'll be able to do more than the acoustic parts in the next year, but since you wrote an original song, the lessons will go in the archive and be waiting for me when I (maybe) reach that level. At least I'll know the concepts. Thanks for the series and thanks for the song. Double extra strong work!