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Playing Thirds on Guitar
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Learn some of the most helpful intervals to play on guitar - Thirds!
They are used in some of the most iconic guitar riffs and are so helpful for creating memorable guitar parts.
This lesson and workout covers how to play thirds in a variety of places on the guitar. PLUS how to use them to create great guitar parts.
Download the PDF, grab your guitar and learn all you can! - Steve
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How to Play Drop D Tuning on Guitar
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Drop D tuning is one of the easiest and best sounding tunings to learn. Just lower your low 6th string down to a D and join in the fun!
Here is a lesson and workout showing you how to play in drop D, chords, and even learning the lick to "Everlong" by the Foo Fighters!
Drop your D and learn all you can! - Steve
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The Three Types of Blues
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
12 Bar Blues? Jazz Blues? Minor Blues?
There are three types of blues progressions that any guitar player needs to know.
(I didn't learn these from a book - I learned them on the bandstand.)
This lesson covers them so you can have them in your musical bag of tricks.
Download the PDF and learn all you can! - Steve
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Song Lesson: Brown Eyed Girl
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Van Morrison recorded the classic "Brown Eyed Girl" in 1967. It went on to be the most downloaded song of the entire 1960s.
Here is a simple lesson showing the chords, the intro, and the musical concepts from this iconic song.
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Arpeggios
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
An in-depth study in arpeggios on guitar.
Learn all you can!
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10 Chords You Need to Know
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Click the "Download this File" button for the PDF of this lesson.
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What Good is a Diminished Chord?
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Many players know how major, minor, and dominant seventh chords fit into music because they use them all the time. But, often, they are perplexed at the diminished chord. Unlike major and minor chords, the diminished chord is an unstable chord - meaning that it needs to be resolved to some other chord. It is because of this “need to be resolved” that it is so helpful and can be used in all kinds of musical situations to get from one chord to another.
Learn how to take a bland progression and make it amazing by using a few diminished chords.
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How to Practice Guitar - Tips and Practice Logs
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
How to Practice Guitar - Tips and Practice Logs
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Easy Chord Moves
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Creating movement in an otherwise static chord is always a challenge. Sometimes chords need to be held for an extended period of time.
So, adding a little movement can make a simple into a great progression. And this can be done by just moving a finger!
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Playing Smooth - Eliminating the Robotic Sound in Your Playing
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Growing players tend to have a choppy, robotic sound to their playing. They are playing the right notes (mostly) but it sounds like a broken robot is playing them.
Goal: Play lines & chords flowing together – each note leading to the next. Each chord dovetailing or overlapping into the next.
The Solution: Focus on where notes are ending. Become aware of the overlapping of tones.
1) For Single Notes Lines – Play lines with even rhythms letting each note flow into the next.
2) For Chords – Let the notes ring together. Move fingers independently so that some are holding notes while others are moving.
Grab your guitar and let’s learn!
1,418 downloads
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Hammer Ons and Pull Offs
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Grab your guitar and let's learn this important guitar technique!
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Irish Tunes Medley
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Grab your four-leaf clover and your leprechaun and let's learn some classic Irish jigs!
Three Timeless Irish Jigs put in a Upbeat Medley
Boys of Bock Hills Come to the Raffle The Irish Washerwoman Download the Demo Track, Performance Track and the Sheet Music
Have fun!
3,389 downloads
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Travis Picking Bootcamp
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
This is the PDF for Travis Picking Bootcamp Workout Pages 1-10 and a Basic and Intermediate Versions of "Freight Train"
Freight Train (Basic Solo).pdf
Freight Train (Intermediate Solo).pdf Travis Picking Bootcamp pgs1-10.pdf
11,212 downloads
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Chord Connections: Multiply Your Soloing Options with One Simple Trick
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Tired of playing the same licks over the same chords?
Learn an easy way to MULTIPLY your soloing options over any chord!
DOWNLOAD THE PDF
2,918 downloads
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Soloing Over 7th Chords & the Blues
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Soloing Over 7th Chords & the Blues
Seventh chords are some of the most common types of chords but can be tricky to solo over at times.
Seventh chords have three main tones – the root, the major 3rd, & the flatted 7th.
Here’s the problem: If you want to solo using pentatonic scales then neither the major or minor pentatonic scales work perfectly.
The major pentatonic scale doesn’t include the b7.
And the minor pentatonic scale doesn’t include the major 3rd - although it does include the bluesy sounding minor 3rd.
So, it’s helpful to find other ways to approach this common chord.
Grab your guitar and download the PDF and let's get started!
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The Top Guitar Chords in Any Key
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
The PDF of The Top Guitar Chords in Any Key
With all of the thousands of songs out there, you would think that they would use countless different chords. But, actually, most common songs use a pretty limited number of chords.
And, most of those commonly used chords have the same function within whatever key they are in.
The most commonly used chords in any key are the I (one), IV (four), V7(five), and vim (six minor).
Yes, I know there are a lot of other chords possible, but if you could get an average of the chords used in any song you would see that MOST of them are one of these four chords.
So, as a guitarist, it is important and very helpful that we can play these four types of chords in any key.
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Silver Bells and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Two Holiday Classics: Silver Bells and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
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Jingle Bells - Travis Picking (Intermediate Arrangement)
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Here is a fun intermediate arrangement of "Jingle Bells" done in a Travis picking style. Have fun!!
1,679 downloads
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20 Turnarounds for Jazz Guitar
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Learn 20 Turnarounds for Jazz Guitar. Ready to use in any situation. Learn the concepts, the chord shapes and the progressions!
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How Music Works
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Download the PDF for this series here.
How Music Works: Scales, Keys, Intervals & Chords
Do you feel lost when the subject of scales or what notes make up a chord come up?
These things are the building blocks of music, harmony and soloing.
For the next few sessions, we'll be doing a short series on How Music Works.
You'll learn...
What Notes are in Any Major Scale How to Tell the Key of Any Song Major and Minor Intervals What Notes are in Major, Minor, Diminished and Augmented Chords
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- how music works
- scales
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The Chords You Need to Know Workouts
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
This is the PDF of exercises for the Chords You Need to Know Workouts
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Chord Substitutions for Jazz Guitar
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
Chord Substitutions for Jazz Guitar PDF
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The Super Arpeggio
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
This is the PDF Download for the Live Lesson on June 30th on the Super Arpeggio.
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Learning the Nashville Number System for Guitarists
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
The Nashville number system is how the guitar pros in studio read music. Learn how this notation works and how to incorporate it into your own playing and musical understanding.
This series includes and in-depth lesson and a play along guitar workout for you to master the skills - ending with you reading Nashville studio charts!
Make sure to download the FREE PDF for this lesson and workout before you start.
Learn all you can.
NASHVILLE NUMBER SYSTEM (IN-DEPTH LESSON)
NASHVILLE NUMBER SYSTEM (PLAY ALONG GUITAR WORKOUT)
4,720 downloads
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Riffs and Patterns Every Guitarist Should Know
By Steve Krenz in Weekly Live Lessons and Workouts
There are certain "go-to" riffs that guitarists have used on 1000s of songs.
This in-depth lesson covers four common riffs PLUS shows how you can use the guitars patterns to create much longer ideas.
Make sure to download the PDF for this lesson with all of the riffs written in music notation and tab before you start.
Learn all you can!
5,381 downloads
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