http://www.fretmeup.com Free Guitar Lessons Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:29:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you’re stuck in the pentatonic box and struggling to find a useful way to make any musical sense of the five pentatonic positions then do yourself a favour and try something new ... Pack your virtual suitcase with a few simple ideas, cut off all contact, and lock ... http://www.fretmeup.com/stuck-in-the-pentatonic-box/ I’m currently working on a new lead guitar series of lessons for playing the minor pentatonic scale using the entire fretboard (coming soon) and I have to be honest, I get the feeling it’s not going to be as popular as I would like it to be. Why? Because I ... http://www.fretmeup.com/playing-guitar-what-does-it-take/ Minor Arpeggios and the minor pentatonic There seems to be a lot of confusion about arpeggios for those who have never played around with them. Many beginners assume that an arpeggio is played by holding a chord shape and picking the notes separately instead of strumming. Now that certainly is an ... http://www.fretmeup.com/mastering-the-pentatonics-part-5/ Breaking down the pentatonic scale One of the biggest problems with scale positions is if you're not careful you might end up thinking about them in positions relative to each other, rather than independent scales. Whatever method you use, one thing that is very important is you always know where you ... http://www.fretmeup.com/mastering-the-pentatonics-part-4/ Intervals inside the pentatonic shapes It's also important to know the placement of all the chords and intervals within the pentatonic shapes. Take some time to look through and learn all of these in the diagrams below. Don't worry if all of this so far seems like too much too learn, ... http://www.fretmeup.com/mastering-the-pentatonics-part-3/ Triads All of the previous chord forms were built on triads. A triad is simply a chord containing three notes. The common chord forms that use more than three strings therefore have some of these notes repeated. What we want to do now is take a look at these triads across ... http://www.fretmeup.com/mastering-the-pentatonics-part-2/ The Guitar Rut! ... I'm sure most of us guitarists have been in the same situation at some point. We enter the world of lead guitar, learn the minor pentatonic scale, some licks, get the technique down quite well and just as we start sounding pretty good we hit a ... http://www.fretmeup.com/mastering-the-pentatonics-part-1/ Unless you have never played a guitar before then the subject of tuning is quite obvious and straightforward. You plug in your guitar tuner, turn the machine heads until the needle is centred for each string in turn and your done, right?.. Well actually, no.. not quite! There’s more to ... http://www.fretmeup.com/how-to-tune-a-guitar/ The big question! Do you really need to know music theory to become a great guitarist or musician? We hear the same old arguments all the time. Cliché No1 Theory stifles creativity! Cliché No2 Hendrix and the great blues players didn't need theory! Cliché No3 Who wants to stick to rules, theory is for geeks To be honest, ... http://www.fretmeup.com/why-learn-music-theory/ Style: Driving Twelve Bar Rock Blues. Progression I-IV-V in fifths Tempo 100BPM only Key A Right click / save as to download mp3 Straight Twelve 100BPM http://www.fretmeup.com/straight-feel-blues-jam/