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Reggae Backing Track 1

There are 4 different backing tracks in the video and I'm going to make them available in 4 separate posts. 

This one is a simple G to A minor groove. 

Adrian Attempts: Reggae

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Today I'm continuing my occasional "Adrian Attempts" series with a look at reggae guitar. The basic premise of this series is that I'm going to be looking at artists or styles of m...

Introduction to DADGAD Tuning

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This week I'm taking a look at one of my favourite alternate tunings: DADGAD. I first discovered this tuning through listening to Jimmy Page, way back when I first started playing ...

Wichita Lineman Backing Track

Here's my backing track. Use it to practice my arrangement, maybe have a go at working up an arrangement of your own, or perhaps try improvising over the chords. Hope you enjoy playing along. ...

Wichita Lineman

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Hope everyone's doing well. There was a great response to last week's Patreon-only video, so that's certainly something I'll start doing on a semi-regular basis. Next up will proba...

Patreon-only Studio Tour

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Something slightly different this week: a lo-fi, Patreon-only video, in which I give you a brief update on what I've been up to lately as well as a little tour of my studio setup. ...

Baby Lemonade by Syd Barrett

This week, a tune from one of my favourite songwriters, Syd Barrett. I set to do a simple acoustic strumming kind of lesson, but got a bit carried away and ended up  doing a full version with ...

Raw Power by Iggy & The Stooges

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I wanted to keep it simple and - I hope- fun this week with a look at another track from one of  my favourite records ever: Raw Power by Iggy and The Stooges. Here's the link ...

T-Bone Shuffle Backing Track

Here's the backing. It's really just a 12 bar in G that goes round and round, but there's a 4 bar intro on G before the 12 bar cycle starts. Use it to practice the main theme, T-Bone's solos, or ju...

T-Bone Shuffle

Hi everyone. This week, a must-know blues track from the hugely influential T-Bone Walker. It's full of great bluesy and jazzy-bluesy vocabulary, and I particularly like his rhythm and phrasing dur...

Some of my favourite country licks...

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Some country guitar this week! I've put together a short solo that contains many of my favourite country licks and devices. There's lots to get stuck into here: melodic double stops, ...

Baja by The Astronauts Backing Track No Guitars

And here's a version of the backing with no guitars at all, in case you want to play it with another guitarist, or work on the rhythm parts.

Baja by The Astronauts Backing Track No Lead

Here's the backing track, minus the lead guitar. 

Baja by The Astronauts

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I wanted to do a surf tune this week - it's been a while. This is a fabulous early 60s track from Colorado band The Astronauts, which I recently discovered was written by the...

My Best Friend's Girl Backing Track: no rhythm

This version of the backing omits the rhythm guitar part. So use this if you're working on the Ocasek part. 

My Best Friend's Girl Backing Track: no lead guitar

This version of the backing contains none of the lead parts, so use it if you're working on any of the Elliot Easton parts. Maybe try and play it as EE does live, combing the various parts you hear...

My Best Friend's Girl Backing Track: no guitars

I'm going to upload 3 versions of the backing, and you can use the one that fits best with what you're working on. This one has no guitars at all. Use it if you're playing the song with another gui...

My Best Friend's Girl by The Cars

Hello everyone. This week, an in-depth look at a proper classic. This one is so epic in terms of the guitar parts that I've given it the full 2-part treatment. In the first video I look at all the ...

Practice ideas and inspiration for 2023

Happy New Year all! As is customary, my first video of the new year is all about practice. In the video I give you some general thoughts on practice, and I also talk about the kind of things that I...

New video coming Sunday

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Hope everyone's doing well. I just wanted to let you know that this week's video will be launched on Sunday. It's a New Year-themed video, with ideas about what to practice in 2023...

Just Like Christmas by Low

Hello all. It's Christmas Special time. And this year I decided to try putting together a solo guitar version of one of my favourite Xmas songs, from one of my favourite Christmas records: the Low ...

Hand Clapper Backing Track

Here's the backing. Arrangement is as per the original recording. Have fun playing along!

Hand Clapper by Link Wray

This week, another fantastic track from Link Wray. I always enjoy looking at his stuff, and this one contains, I think, some of his best playing. 

Here's the Link link (ha):

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If I Needed You by Townes Van Zandt

I realise there's not been much acoustic stuff lately, so I thought I'd fix that by looking at a beautiful fingerstyle track from one of my favourite singer-songwriters, Townes Van Zandt. Here's th...

Delay Pedals Backing Track

Here's a quick backing I made to play over at the start of this week's video. Key of E, with a descending Portishead-y kind of bass line. Anything in E minor will work well over this, particularly ...

My favourite delay pedals & how I use them

Hello all. This week something slightly different, and a video focusing on gear and tone. Specifically, I'm showing you 5 or 6 of my favourite delay units and talking about some of the ways I like ...

Sparky's Dream by Teenage Fanclub

This week, a bit of Teenage Fanclub. This band has been much requested by people on here and in the YouTube comments, and I've  finally got round to making a video about one of their greatest ...

Babylon's Burning by The Ruts

I thought I'd do a bit of punk this week. The song is a bit of a British punk classic, I think. There are some great riffs, and it's reasonably easy to play. And it's also a nice workout for many o...

Memphis by Lonnie Mack backing track

Here's my backing track. The arrangement is the same as the original. 1 bar count in. Enjoy playing along! 

Memphis by Lonnie Mack

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Hope everyone's doing well. This week I'm looking at a guitar instrumental classic that was until quite recently unknown to me. It's been a lot fun learning this one and putting to...