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- NEW ALBUM: Joe Bonamassa “Driving Towards The Daylight”
- Slow Jam The News with Barack Obama & The Roots: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
- Guitarist Magazine Launches Deluxe Edition iPad App
- Bert Weedon, Play In A Day Author, Dies Aged 91 RIP – 1920-2012
- Tom Petty’s Guitars Stolen From Tour Rehearsal
- Axl Rose Publicly Declines His Induction Into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame In Open Letter To All
- RIP Jim Marshall OBE ~ 1923-2012
- MonkeyFest 2012 Cancelled
- Rockschool Launches Version 4 Guitar Syllabus on May 1st!
- Introducing: Phoenix Pro – The Guitar Plugin That Turns Hacks into Shredders
- SONISPHERE CANCELLED!
- 2012 G3 European Tour feat. Steve Vai, Joe Satriani & Steve Morse
- Slash performs the Allman Brothers classic ‘Jessica’ on BBC’s Top Gear show
- John Mayer forced to take “indefinite hiatus” and cancel US tour
- Eric Johnson announces first ever UK tour!
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- Just been working from the @Rockschool grade 5 book with @iisBigD for his exam later this year. Alka Sezter, All Funked Up and Bust Up. 8 hours ago
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- Happy Birthday, Paul Weller! The modster turns 54 today. Check out 1993's 'Wild Wood'from the album of the same title: youtu.be/A9_ffgwLVCs 16 hours ago
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Category Archives: Lesson
Jamtrackcentral announce new ‘Jazzy Jams’ jam track package by Alex Hutchings and welcome Sam Coulson to the team!
Jamtrackcentral will soon be releasing a brand new Alex Hutchings jam track package called ‘Jazzy Jams’ that will feature the usual 100% accurate transcriptions, extended backing tracks and full length performance videos. more videos: Shes Got Rhythm, So What Do You … Continue reading
Magic Whammy Pedal Moments ~ Vai, Satriani, Gilmour and Morello
I recently taught a workshop focussing wholly on modern guitar heroes and did some extensive research on tracks that used the Digitech Whammy pedal to great affect. Here is my Top 5 Whammy Pedal moments, including: Steve Vai, David Gilmour, … Continue reading
Fat Bottomed Girls – Queen ~ Total Guitar Video Lesson
Total Guitar have put together an awesome eight-part video tuition package of the Queen track ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’, which can be found on the bands 1978 album ‘Jazz’ and has recently been performed live on Brian May’s Anthems tour of … Continue reading
Posted in Lesson, Magazine, Total Guitar, Video, Website
Tagged Anthems, Anthems Tour, Brian May, Charlie Griffiths, Fat Bottomed Girls, Guitar Lesson, How To, HowTo, Instructional Video, Jazz, Kerry Ellis, Magazine, Queen, TG216, Total Guitar, Tuition, Tutorial
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Rock And Roll – Led Zeppelin ~ Total Guitar Video Lesson
The guys at Total Guitar have put together another great five-part video tuition package. This time we have Led Zeppelin’s awesome ‘Rock And Roll’, which can be found on the bands fourth album entitled Led Zeppelin IV, originally released in … Continue reading
Posted in Lesson, Magazine, Total Guitar, Video
Tagged Charlie Griffiths, Future Publishing, Guitar Lesson, Guitar Techniques, Guitar Tuition, Issue 215, James Uings, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin, Music Radar, Robert Plant, Total Guitar June 2011, Total Guitar Magazine, Video, Video Lesson, YouTube
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Brian May & Kerry Ellis – Anthems Tour 2011
British guitar legend Brian May begins his UK tour with Kerry Ellis on May 1st at the Royal Albert Hall and finishes the main leg of the tour at the Bath Forum on May 21st. The 13-date tour will electrify audiences … Continue reading
Posted in Lesson, Music, News, Video, Website
Tagged Anthems Tour, Bath Forum, Brian May, Jamie Humphries, Kerry Ellis, Royal Albert Hall, We WIll Rock You, YouTube
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Live And Let Die – Guns N’ Roses ~ Total Guitar Video Lesson
The guys at Total Guitar have put together a great six-part video tuition package of the Guns N’ Roses cover of Paul McCartney and Wing’s James Bond movie theme ‘Live And Let Die’. These videos accompany Issue 214 of Total Guitar … Continue reading
Posted in Lesson, Magazine, Video, Website
Tagged Future Publishing, Guitar Lesson, Guitar Techniques, Guitar Tuition, Guns N' Roses, Issue 214, James Uings, Linda McCartney, Live And Let Die, Music Radar, Paul McCartney, Phil Capone, Slash, Total Guitar Magazine, Video, Video Lesson, Wings, YouTube
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CofBC tutor play through #2
As part of the students learning at City of Bath College the instrumental tutors perform to the class presenting them with a close look at the structures, techniques and musical approaches that different genres of music demand. This term we are … Continue reading
Posted in City of Bath College, Lesson, Music, Video
Tagged Bath Guitar School, City of Bath College, Clive Stocker, Duncan Kingston, Free Guitar Lessons, Guitar, Guitar Lesson, Guitar Tuition, Lee Risdale, Motown, Performance, Richard Perkins, Stevie Wonder, Superstition, Tom Gardiner
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The E A D G C F Tuning For Guitar | An Introductory Guide
The guys over at Jam Track Central recently interviewed Alex Hutchings, a long time collaborator with JTC and a great jazz/rock/fusion guitarist from the UK, who is local to the South West and I have seen him play in Bath … Continue reading
CAGED System: Arpeggios
This post is for my students at the City of Bath College. This is the third installment of the CAGED system and like the CAGED chord and scale shapes in my previous blog posts this CAGED arpeggio system creates five … Continue reading





