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Guitar Sherpa

Summary: TrueFire’s Guitar Sherpa broadcasts video guitar lessons, insight and performances from the world’s top guitarists. Optimized for intermediate to pro players, Guitar Sherpa guides you through TrueFire’s top blues, rock, jazz, acoustic and fingerstyle guitar lessons. Exclusive live performances and workshops deliver massive doses of inspiration for the practicing and performing guitarist. Practice smart, play hard. WARNING! The contents of these podcasts may lead to excessive practice, loss of sleep and grossly enlarged chops.

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 SoloCraft: Open String Triple Stops: 7 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6:43

In this section I am playing in the key of G to demonstrate the open string triple stop ideas. My ideas are basically major and minor 3rd double-stops on the top two strings that have an open G string added to them as a pedal tone drone approach. I also use major and minor 6th double-stop ideas on the 2nd and 4th strings in the key of G and add the open G string as a drone in between the double-stop shapes. This is a very melodic way of playing some really nice harmony lines using only one guitar. I think you'll agree that it sounds really cool over the I, IV chord progression we're playing over. Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

 SoloCraft: Intervallic Lines: 3 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:12

That's right. I'm using minor pentatonic scales to create the licks in much of this solo example. I know the fingerings don't look familiar to you anymore now that I am skipping strings and creating new approaches from the standard shapes. Play through this solo one measure at a time to learn some of these licks if you'd like or just jump in and watch the videos and start creating your own ideas. Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

 SoloCraft: Harmony Lead: 5 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: :32

I'm going to play the D major scale for you in this example starting on D and you are going to be my second guitarist in the band and as I play, you are going to play the D major scale starting on F# all the way up to the octave of F# and back down again giving us a 3rd harmony above my melody. Got it? Good! That's how you can figure out your harmony parts a third above a melody. Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

 SoloCraft: Harmony Lead: 6 Adding The 5th Above | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:31

The next step is to locate the 5th above our D major scale melody. All you need to do is count up the scale five notes from D. The 5th note is A. So what we'll do is play our D major scale now starting on A up to A an octave above and descend back down to A again. You'll hear me play this against the melody and our 3rd harmony above the scale. Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

 SoloCraft: Harmony Lead: 3 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:21

You will notice that I start the demonstration by playing the chords in the progression for you. I want you to see that the chords are pretty simple as is the melody I'm playing. Over complicating either of these elements is going to take away from the sweetness we create by adding the harmony parts. Most of the classic harmony lead solos and riffs are simple and that's what makes them so memorable - we can sing them. You'll notice that I play all of the parts for you up the neck in a linear fashion. I have done this so you can really see my harmony start points for each layer. Always a method in my teaching madness! Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

 SoloCraft: Pedal Tones Play along Exercise | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: :51

You can hear from this video segment that the lick we created works over both chords. Now that you have the concept down come up with some ideas and phrases of your own. Try using the C# as a pedal tone over both chords. Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

 SoloCraft: Pedal Tones A maj 7 - D maj 7 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:29

We can locate a pedal tone that will work for both of our chords too. If you are up on your chord tone theory you will be saying well, we can use either C# or A because they are found in both chords. In this example we'll take an A note to pedal our melody from across both chords. Now that you have that under your fingers, let's try it in context with the track. Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

 SoloCraft: Pedal Tones | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: :52

As you can hear the licks are pretty simple in their structure but the articulation of the interval skips may be tricky at first. You may also notice that I also weave in regular lick ideas to allow the pedal tone ideas to shine when they come back around. Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

 SoloCraft: Pedal Steel Bends: 2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:28

You can probably hear a similarity to Honky Tonk Women by the Rolling Stones in this example. That's because this is basically what they were playing to create those riffs. Check out my right hand picking as well as the phrasing and articulation of the bends with the left hand. Remember to support your bends with the remaining fingers on your left hand. These bends are obviously easier with lighter gauge strings but I'm sure you are used to whatever tension your guitar gives you. If this is a struggle on your current gauge, try taking them down a gauge to help relieve some of the tension. Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

 SoloCraft: Fourths, Fifths, Sixth Play along Exercise | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:28

The right hand technique is just as important as the notes in the licks. Watch what I am doing and try to emulate that. Some players use pick and fingers as you know. That is very cool and will work beautifully. Make sure as always to resolve to your sweet notes from each of the scale shapes Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

 SoloCraft: Fourths 8th Position | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6:07

The ideas I am going to show you, using 4ths now, are found at the 8th fret region of the guitar and you'll be able to see the lick idea from within a G triad arpeggio and also the G major scale. Reference the fret board diagrams for the G major scale pattern at the 7-8th fret area of your guitar neck. Watch the video to grasp the lick from within the scale. This lick can be phrased in a multitude of ways. Learn how I play the idea and then re-phrase it to be "you". This lick is also moveable to match the chords in our progression. If you want to play the same idea over the C chord move the shape we've worked on up to the 13th fret. Over the D chord you can play this at the 3rd fret. Try all of these suggestions now over the track. Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

 SoloCraft: Fourths, Fifths, Sixths | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:29

The opening licks are of course the classic sixths we've played in the classic sixths section of the Solo Craft course. You will then hear me change it up and start to play some cool double-stop and pedal steel type bends and licks from the minor/major pentatonic scale over this progression. Watch and listen before jumping into this video as I'm mixing it up quite a bit. I'll get into the breakdown of what I'm doing in the following videos and you'll have a chance to jam with me after you've absorbed the diagrams and fingerings for each example. Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

 SoloCraft: Classic Sixths | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: :51

If you are watching the video in conjunction with the diagrams I have provided, make sure you watch the left and right hand co-ordination for the phrasing of these classic sixth licks. The tab and notation will delineate that phrasing but there is nothing quite like getting the feel of this style by using your ears instead of your eyes. Let's get stuck into showing you the fingering patterns and then we'll jam on the track together. Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

 SoloCraft: Performance Transcribed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: :50

This solo represents my style of playing using the sweet notes approach over an A7 to D7 RB groove. I'm using A minor pentatonic scale in all five positions adding chromatics for extra flavor. Check out the notation and tab to follow this solo for inspirational ideas. Please forgive my pained expressions but I was in the zone! Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

 SoloCraft: Introduction | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:45

The term "Solo Craft" refers to your stylistic approach, techniques and note choices when crafting your solos, lead guitar fills and lines. I have developed this course to give you a variety of incredible approaches to add flavor and spice to your playing regardless of your preferred style and level of playing. I wanted to give you all the opportunity to express yourself through your instrument without limitations and I feel that this course will give you the ability to sound more versatile and valuable as a guitarist but more importantly, a rounded musician. When you hear how incredible some of the ideas are in this course you are going to say "wow, what was that"? And I'm going to say something like "take a look at your minor pentatonic scale and approach it like this, it's that simple"! "Solo Craft" has been broken down into 11 main sections and each section contains more elaborate detail than the title may convey. Dig in deep to each section and take each idea further and integrate that into your own playing. I have recorded sample solos for each lesson and these have been carefully tabbed and notated for you to learn and analyze over the track. Charts, chord diagrams and fantastic backing tracks accompany each segment so that you can follow what I am doing on screen with ease and clarity. Any relevant licks that I play during the lesson plans have been notated for you and I strongly advocate using my ideas as inspiration to develop ideas for your own style and voice. You don't want to sound like me... you want to sound like you and I will help you do that in "Solo Craft". "Solo Craft" was developed for you to be the guitarist you've always wanted to be so let's get started with a listen to the introduction sample solo. Get more videos, notation and tab for this guitar lesson on TrueFire TV (www.TrueFireTV.com)  and join TrueFire for access to 1000's of video guitar lessons (www.TrueFire.com/join.html)

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