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🎸You Asked For It, You Got It! New Downloads New Downloads Store🎸

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Many of you have asked us to create downloadable lessons that don’t require a recurring membership.  Well, it took a pandemic to give us the time to get this together, but today, we are psyched to launch our new downloads store!  You can find it at http://store.practicetheguitar.com.

We have nine lesson packs available now, with more content coming.   Each lesson pack contains a video lesson, videos to practice with, backing tracks, as well as tabs/notation/Guitar Pro files.

If you are looking to beat the boredom and want to come out of this pandemic a better guitar player, check out our new store and grab a lesson pack or two.

You have an exercise from http://PracticeTheGuitar.com you would like to see in downloadable form on the store, drop us a line at http://info.practicetheguitar.com and we will try to get it up on the store ASAP.

Thanks for you suggestions and thanks for your patience!

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Blues Guitar Lessons – Stevie Ray Vaughan (SRV) Texas Shuffle – Blues Guitar Lesson – In G

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As with all great guitarists, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s rhythm playing was as strong as his leads. Stevie Ray Vaughan excelled at a style of shuffle playing that has its roots in earlier players, yet he was able to turn it into a personal trademark.

This riff is based off of a twelve bar blues in G. The chords being outlined are G7, C7, and D7, with a hard shuffle feel. Some of the other techniques being used are hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, and position shifts. When you listen to a rhythm section playing a medium shuffle, it’s quite common to hear the bass playing a walking line (moving quarter notes) while the guitar strums chords on the upbeats CLICK HERE FOR THE PAGE TO THE LESSON.

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Guitar Lessons-How To Play Tapping Three Octave Major Minor 7th Shred Arpeggios

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In this tapping arpeggio exercise I want to cover share a trick based around a concept that will add some sophistication to your improvisations (while also being sure to turn heads with its attention-grabbing coolness!): three octave major and minor 7th arpeggios.

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Shred Guitar Lessons- Learn The Style Of Yngwie Malmsteen- Rick Graham – Andy James Shred

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For this awesome shred style lesson from John Huldt, we cover a ton of Yngwie Malmsteen type techniques that every guitarist would want to learn, sweep picking, two finger tapping, double picking, string skipping, tapping diminished runs, and symmetrical patterns as well.

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Guitar Lessons – How To Play Chord Scales All Over The Guitar- Simple Theory To Make You Better Guitar A Player

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One of the biggest hurdles many guitarists face early in their development is being able to connect chords, scales and arpeggios in their playing without having to jump all over the fretboard between shapes.

Always having a scale under your fingers for every chord shape you use is a great way to learn the fretboard, providing you with soloing material at the same time. This exercise will help get you into this way of thinking with seven diatonic chords on both the 6th and 5th strings, as well as the seven scale shapes that fall under each chord. This will be an amazing tool to help you learn many aspects of the guitar, and improve your soloing.

C Major Scale C D E F G A B C

Seven chords in the key of C Cmaj7 Dm7 Em7 Fmaj7 G7 Am7 Bm7b5

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mprove Your Guitar Playing With C Minor Pentatonic Scales With Legato + Alternate Picking

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This C Minor Pentatonic Scale exercise. This type of scale is used in thousands of guitar solos and is something that every guitar player should be comfortable with. This scale drill is the five patterns the C minor pentatonic scale covering the whole guitar neck. Start this exercise on pattern five on the third fret of the sixth string. Play through the scale up to the first string and back down. Make sure you repeat the highest note on each box to keep all the patterns in an even sixteenth note grouping. When you get back to the third fret on the sixth string, quickly switch to the sixth fret with the first finger and play through pattern seven. After pattern seven switch to the eighth fret and play through pattern one. Next is pattern three from the eleventh fret, and then pattern four from the thirteenth fret. Once you get through pattern four on the thirteenth fret, shift to the eleventh fret on the sixth string and play pattern three again. Continue to work your way back down the neck playing through each pattern. When you get through pattern five on the third fret, shift right to pattern seven again. Play through the whole sequence up to the twelfth fret and back down with hammer-ons and pull-offs. End the exercise on the third fret sixth string. CLICK HERE FOR THE PAGE TO THIS LESSON
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Improve Your Soloing-Learn How Mixing Minor Scales And Pentatonic Scales Makes Your Soloing More Interesting.

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For this lesson we are trying to connect the five patterns of the E minor pentatonic scale with the seven patterns of the E minor scale. This is a useful way to improve your knowledge of the fretboard as well as giving you a ton of new options for playing melodies and soloing in a minor key. In this example we are doing all of these in the key of E minor. I am numbering the five patterns of the pentatonic scale as the note fall in the key. The E minor scale is E F# G A B C D E. The E minor pentatonic scale is E G A B D E, which is the same scale with the second and fourth notes removed. Pattern one of the scale just simply starts on E, Pattern three starts on G, Pattern four on A, and so on. For the E minor scale patterns I am taking the pattern numbers from the G major scale. If you see that the G major and E minor scale are each others relative major and minor, you also see that these two scales share the same notes. G major scale is G A B C D E F# G. E minor scale is E F# G A B C D E. Same exact notes. For the sake of consistently and trying to keep things simple I group relative major and minor scales together. it’s pretty common that guitar players tend to learn pentatonic scales as minor and major scales as major. Learning how to relate relative major and minor will close those gaps between these two worlds quite easily. CLICK HERE FOR THE PAGE TO THIS LESSON.
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10 Must Know Movable 6th And 5th String Chord Shapes For Guitar

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This chord exercise will help you play one 6th string root chord, and one 5th string root chord for maj7, 7th, -7th, -7b5, and full diminished chords on the guitar. It’s important to see that these are movable shapes that can be moved to any starting note on the neck. For example Cmaj7 on the 6th string is on the eighth fret, to play a Gmaj7 you can play that same voicing on the 3rd fret. This is super useful for improving your chord playing on the guitar. CLICK HERE FOR THE PAGE TO THIS LESSON.
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How To Sweep Pick-A Guide To Sweep Picking- Essential Rock Guitar Lessons

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This particular exercise uses both hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and sweep picking to achevie this type of sound. This concept is used in every type of guitar playing, all the way from Pat Metheny, Joe Pass, to Stevie Vai, and Joe Satriani. It’s an extremely useful technique. TAB, NOTATION, FULL LESSON, VIDEOS AT 15 TEMPOS, BACKING TRACKS AT 15 TEMPOS HERE. Join https://www.practicetheguitar.com/ and become a member to practice with tons of video lessons at multiple tempos, with full tablature and notation, and backing tracks to practice with.
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8 Bars Essential Country Guitar Licks Country Guitar Lessons Pickin & Grinnin

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Country guitar players tend to use techniques that include flat picking, finger picking and hybrid picking. They also use open strings and licks played in the open position. A lot of string bends and finger slides are also employed. The building blocks that form country guitar’s vocabulary are the major and minor pentatonic scales, the major scale and the Mixolydian mode, major and minor chords (and their corresponding arpeggios), dominant sevenths and ninths, and the judicious use of chromatic passing tones. CLICK HERE FOR THEW PAGE TO THIS LESSON.