In the final installment of her video lessons on the Guitar Noise arrangement of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” guitar teacher extraordinaire Jamie Andreas takes you step by step through the bridge section of the song with very clear and detailed instruction. I learned quite a bit from Jamie’s videos and I hope you do, too!
Video Guitar Lessons
Learn how to play guitar with video guitar lessons. Beginners don’t have to struggle with guitar now that there are videos showing you what you are supposed to be doing.
Here are some great tips for you to improve on your basic music notation reading skills in order to become better (and quicker!) at sight reading.
Nick Minnion discusses the three basic levels of playing and how being able to read notation affects one’s ability to become a better guitarist.
It’s an eternal debate as to whether or not a guitarist should learn to read music as opposed to tablature. Nick Minnion gives us his take on the topic.
Nick Minnion provides a short video lesson to help beginners add riffs taken from the blues scale into their playing.
Nick Minnion shares his secrets of working out the CAGED system on guitar in these two videos he’s made.
Creating expressive solos involves a lot more than playing a lot of notes. One of the best ways to practice expressiveness is to use just a handful of notes, as Tom Hess demonstrates in his latest article. This lesson includes a great tutorial video as well.
Quite often, guitarists solo as if they are paid by the note, totally ignoring phrasing and melody, two key aspects of soloing. Tom Hess gives us a terrific lesson on phrasing, complete with video!