Trouble with Capos? Download my Capo Cheat Sheet – you’ll never be lost with a capo again! View all our guitar lessons here. Capos are great tools to change the key of a song (without changing the key that you are playing on the guitar). In the first capo lesson, we learned how capos actually…
Trouble with Capos? Download my Capo Cheat Sheet – you’ll never be lost with a capo again! To understand how capos work, it first helps to understand the parts of the guitar and how those work. How pitch is determined The string lays across the saddle a the bridge, and then it passes over the…
The hugely popular Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) by Hillsong United. This song can be hard to pull off. It’s slow, it has some strange chord progression changes, and it’s really long. You need lots of dynamics. I’ve broken it down in both the original album key (D), and the key of G, which works for a male lead.
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In this lesson, Bradford and Brian teach you how you can practice making up your own lead guitar parts with a backing track. We have provided a backing track in the key of A, so any notes and series of notes from the A major scale and the F#m pentatonic scales will sound fine with…
Glorious Ruins has to be one of my favorite Hillsong songs – it’s such a powerful song to sing and lead. On the album it’s in the key of F, and we teach/play this song using key of D chords with a capo on the 3rd fret.
I play/teach this one using key of G chords with a capo on the 4th fret.
I think my favorite thing about this song is the ‘I Have Decided’ tag that’s in it. Lots of fun to play and sing.
In this video I review the pickup system that I use for my acoustic guitar. The guitar itself is a Martin D-35 which did not come with pickups installed. Pickups: K&K Pure Western Mini pickups These are transducer pickups. They attach (via glue) right under the bridge of the guitar (on the inside of body…
View all my guitar lessons here. Want private lessons over Skype? Click here to learn more. 3/4 Time 3/4 time is just like 4/4 time, but there are three beats to a measure instead of four. The three means that there are three beats to one measure, and the four means that a quarter note takes up…
Alive In Us is a great song for a higher energy female lead
View all my guitar lessons here. Want private lessons over Skype? Click here to learn more. 4/4 Time For today’s lesson, I’ll just stick to 4/4 time – it’s the most common time signature in modern music. The first four means that there are four beats to one measure, and the second four means that a quater…