BAR CHORD REVIEW – review these chords plus learn some new bar chords – 16:06 minutes

At this point in your guitar journey you should be familiar with quite a few bar chords off the 6th string and 5th string roots. You learned these late in the BEGINNER LESSONS section of the site. You should also be working on or fairly proficient and changing bar chords and going from open chords to bar chords and bar chords to open chords. If you are not familiar with these priniciples then I suggest you visit those lessons in the beginner lessons section. 

As a guitarist it is so critical that you keep expanding your chordal knowledge and chord vocabulary. You will want to continue to learn new chords and practice them in your practice regimens and songs. In this lesson we will do a review of some of the most common bar chords off the 5th and 6th string roots. You will also learn some new ones. Practice these chords and getgood atchanging them as you will see them all the time. As a visual reference to this lesson printout the written lesson in the written lesson section of the site titled,  “BAR CHORD REVIEW SHEET -6th and 5th string root chords diagrammed out – PDF FILE” – this will give you a handy-dandy reference sheet that coincides with this video lesson. Learn a chord a day…and rock on!

More on proper and different STRING BENDING techniques – 8:44 min

In this lesson Dave Nassie continues with teaching some string bending concepts and techniques. Dave teaches this lesson in the key of Am and in a blues based genre. First Dave over the pentatonic scales that he will use as the building blocks in this lesson. Dave starts on simple bend techniques and then moves into some more challenging concepts. Learn some unison bending techniques, string muting techniques, pre-bending, bend and releases, adding licks to bends, and much more! Be sure to check that you are bending in pitch to your target note – you dont want to over or under bend as your licks will then sound out of tune. Practice and get creative with these techniques. 

Beginner Lead guitar techniques and devices with jam track – part 2 – 36:49 min

In this lesson David Taub teaches beginner lead guitar to get you started off in your lead guitar journey. This is part 2 of a two-part lesson. For these series of lessons they key will be B minor and the jam track David utilizes is a I-IV-V minor key blues. What you awant to concentrate on in beginner lead guitar is how to take the notes and start doing musically interesting things with them using these techniques. In these lessons David explores techniques and devices like string bending, adding embellishments to your licks, note choice, adding slides and doublestops, how to spice up your lead playing, and much more. Then you will play over a jam track to practice these techniques. This lesson is packed full of lead guitar techniques – this is part one of a two-part lesson. 

All about Eb (Eflat) tuning – The Hows and Whys 8:26 min

In this lesson David discusses Eb, (E flat) tuning. The lesson is all about the hows and whys of E flat tuning – why do guitar players tune down to Eb, how does that effect other band members – especially singers, what does it do to the guitar tone? These and many more questions on this tuning answered in this lesson.