Epiphone Video Contest

Hey I wanna win a guitar!! So please vote for my contest entry to the Epiphone Video Contest. Voting starts June 1, 2014 but if you dig the guitar video start spreading the word now.  Better yet pick up your favorite Epi and submit your own video!! Cheers.

Contest details here.
http://www.epiphone.com/Contests/2014/Video/Ultimate-Epiphone-Video-Contest.aspx

Art and Music

I recently watched a documentary called  'Tim's Vermeer' that starred a fascinating guy by the name of Tim Jenison. The documentary itself was pretty cool and I'd recommend it. However, what was more interesting than the documentary itself was its main character. Tim Jenison at least as he is portrayed in the documentary came across as a modern day Renaissance man. Need  to study Vermeer - learn Dutch. Need a set - build it by hand after learning how to woodwork. Want a lens, grind it yourself, need some 17th century quality paint- learn to mix it. This guy was a tireless learner and experimenter. So because I've been so lazy updating this blog I decided to draw some inspiration from Tim and combine some art and music. I've created some digital art and decided to make music to go along with it.

The first piece is called ' Dervish Whirling'. It is a solo acoustic guitar piece in DAGDAD tuning. Here is the art and music. In our next post I will break down some musical passages from this and give you the guitar tab for them along with some related guitar licks. 

Jam over last Progression

Just wanted to show a brief video jamming over the last guitar progression we looked at. Guitar is in Drop A Tuning Down a whole step:A G C F A D. I've stuck mainly to notes from the B minor/ D Major scale. If any of the guitar licks catch your ears let me know and I can tab them out. Cheers.

Drop A Chord Progression

This is a chord progression using Drop A Tuning Down a whole step:A G C F A D. I thought this progression sounded cool so I wanted to share it. We'll look at some guitar soloing ideas over this progression in the next post.

Drop A Guitar Riff #2

Another Drop A tuning guitar riff. Guitar is tuned from low to high A G C F A D.
This guitar riff is triplet based so three notes per beat.

Drop A Guitar Riff

Been playing in Drop A tuned down a whole step lately so I thought I'd share a guitar riff I came up with in this tuning. The guitar is tuned low to high A G C F A D. Tuned down a whole step and then drop the low E to an A note. I  use pretty heavy palm muting to keep the second section sounding a little tighter.

Capo Lick

I've been learning a few songs that use a capo. A capo is basically a movable fret that lets you use different notes as "open strings" I've used a guitar tuned down a half step for this guitar lick but capo-ed at the 4th fret. All notes in the guitar tab are as written except the open string notes are actually at the 4th fret because of the capo. The riff is all eighth notes played at a slow tempo. Let the notes bleed into each other and ring as long as possible. Cheers.