In this lesson, Bradford walks through several alternate voicings of common chords in the key of A. These voicings will allow you to move more quickly between chords, and they sound a little more open and natural, especially on acoustic. Standard chords in A Typically, you would play chords in A using these voicings: While…
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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…
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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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Review The Atlantis Overdrive by Throne Room Pedals is a transparent low to medium gain overdrive. We think it sounds phenomenal and stacks particularly well with other overdrive pedals. The Atlantis features the following controls: Gain, Volume, Tone, and has on/off switches for high cut and fat boost. Both the gain and tone knob are…
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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…
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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.
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I play/teach this one using key of G chords with a capo on the 4th fret.
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View all our guitar lessons here. Want private lessons over Skype from Bradford? Click here to learn more In this lesson, Bradford teaches you how to use the major scale and the minor pentatonic scale to find and learn lead parts in popular worship songs. The songs Whom Shall I Fear and Cornerstone are used as examples.…
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View all my guitar lessons here. Want private lessons over Skype from Bradford? Click here to learn more In our previous two lessons, we went over the Major Scale and the Minor Pentatonic Scale. Specifically we learned the A Major scale and the F#m Pentatonic scale. We chose those two scales because F#m is the relative minor…
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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.
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View all my guitar lessons here. Want private lessons over Skype from Bradford? Click here to learn more The Minor Pentatonic Scale Our previous lesson focused on the major scale. The minor pentatonic scale is the relative minor scale that complements the major scale. In the key of A, F#m is the relative minor. The F# Minor…
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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…
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