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Cemetry Gates Backing Track

Here's the backing. The arrangement is the same as the original recording. Enjoy playing along! 

Cemetry Gates by The Smiths

Halloween is upon us once again, and that provides me with an excellent excuse to look at another Smiths/Johnny Marr classic in the shape of the 1986 track Cemetry Gates. I had a lot of fun putting...

Nice Lick 21: Country-style Double Stops

This week a concise and - I hope - enjoyable Nice Lick video. This one is a country-ish idea in E and contains some pedal steel type bending, melodic double stops and some twangy pentatonic connect...

7th chord knowledge: beginner, intermediate & advanced

Hello all,

This week I wanted to take little a break from the song-based videos, and do a more general lesson on the subject of 7th chords. A lot of players seem to get a bit confused when it...

I'm in Love with a German Film Star Full Mix

Here's a version which includes the main guitar part. 

I'm in Love with a German Film Star Backing Track

Here's the backing. The arrangement is the same as the original. 

I'm in Love with a German Film Star

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Delay pedals at the ready for a detailed look at an early 80s classic by The Passions! It's a beautiful song with some lovely guitar atmospherics. Here's the link - 

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10 ways to open a blues solo

Hello everyone. I thought it would be fun to play some blues this week. And as a follow up to the recent video I did on playing over the last 4 bars of a blues (2022-09-23 16:38:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Candy Says Full Mix

For those of you keen to learn my arrangement, I thought it might be worth giving you an audio file with the lead guitar part in there too. Let me know if this is useful and I can regularly upload ...

Candy Says Backing Track

Here's my backing track. Hope you enjoy playing along. 

Candy Says by the Velvet Underground

I know it's not been that long since my last Velvets lesson, but you can never have too much VU as far as I'm concerned. This week I'm looking at a classic track from the 3rd album. I've put togeth...

Better rhythm & phrasing: Backing track

Here's the backing. It's got a D dorian mode kind of flavour, a little bit Floyd-ish I suppose. Play over it using the D dorian mode and related triads or arpeggios. D minor pentatonic and D blues ...

Better rhythm & phrasing

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Hope everyone's well. This week's video is called "Play better solos right now with this simple rhythm trick" (Slightly cheesy and clickbait-y I realise, but I hope the content of ...

Drag Racer Backing Track

Here's the backing track. Enjoy playing along!

Drag Racer by Doug Wood (The snooker theme tune)

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For a bit of fun this week I thought I’d look at Drag Racer by The Doug Wood Group, AKA the old BBC snooker theme tune. (Not from the UK? Have no idea what snooker is? Not t...

Cream of Gold by Pavement

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In today's lesson I'm looking at one of my favourite Pavement songs. We have an unusual tuning (DADABE!), some wonderful riffs, and a noisy but melodic solo. Here's the link - ...

Minor CAGED Vocabulary Backing Track

Here's the backing track. It's a funky kind of G minor vamp. Use it to practice my solo, my CAGED licks, licks and solos of your own, or anything else you like... 

More CAGED Vocabulary: Minor Ideas

Hello all! A few people have requested I do a minor key follow up my recent lesson on building vocabulary in each of the 5 CAGED positions. So that's what we have this week. Here's the link:

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Pretty Persuasion by R.E.M.

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Hope you're all doing OK. I'm still away on my holidays for a few more days, but today I want to bring a video I pre-recorded a couple of weeks ago. It's a fantastic R.E.M. song:...

Summer Breeze Backing Track

Here’s the backing! As I say in the video, it’s a slightly abbreviated arrangement: intro/chorus/verse/chorus/ re-intro/ solo

Hope you enjoy! 

Summer Special: Summer Breeze

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I’m off on my holidays which means it’s Summer Special time. This time round I’ve gone for the classic Summer Breeze. I’ve come up with an arrangement based heavily on the ...

Man of Mystery Backing Track

Here's this week's backing. I'd not really payed attention to how good the rest of the band is on this one - great drums and acoustic rhythm, and a particularly brilliantly bass line. 

T...

Man of Mystery by The Shadows

This week, another Shadows track. When I was putting together my Apache lesson a few months back, I went on a bit of a Shadows listening jag and this track in particular caught my ear and stood out...

Nice Lick 20

It's time for another Nice Lick. As usual, in the video I show you the lick, but also go a bit deeper into the theory behind the lick so you'll be able to use it, adapt it, and make it your own. 2022-07-15 15:57:12 +0000 UTC View Post

CAGED Vocabulary Backing Track

Here's the backing track to go along with this week's video. It's a simple, repeated G to F chord progression. Over the G 

I'm playing G ideas over the G (mostly chord tones and major pe...

Building CAGED Vocabulary

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In this video I'm talking about how I understand the fretboard using the CAGED system Too often people learn about CAGED and it remains this abstract concept that never leads onto ...

Into The Valley by The Skids

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This week I'm looking at the classic punk track Into The Valley by The Skids, which features some brilliant playing by the late Stuart Adamson. This one has been on my to do list...

Bullwinkle alternate backing in E minor

I don't know how useful this is to anyone, but I did a version of this backing in E minor, for those of you who might want to play along in standard tuning. 

Bullwinkle Part 2 Backing Track

Here's my backing track. It's in D minor, so remember to de-tune before playing along. Have fun!

Bullwinkle, Part 2 by The Centurions

I was in the mood for some surf guitar this week, so I decided to put together a video on this classic surf track by the Centurions. In the video, I take you through the guitar part that you can he...