Lead Guitar Lessons Made Easy for Beginners

Welcome to a lesson…great for beginners who want to learn lead!   First, download the backing track.CLICK HERE   PART 1     PART 2     PART 3     PART 4     PART 5   Hey, it’s Claude Johnson here and I’ve got a videolesson for you today for the beginners for

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Ridiculously Simple Lead Guitar

Hey Friend, I just put out a video series justfor the beginners who want tolearn lead guitar. It’s 20 minutes of video instructionwith an included backing track. What am I charging for this? Absolutely freaking nothing! 🙂 Just go watch it on my blog. CLAUDE JOHNSON BLOG I decided I needed to take careof the

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“I have the right to perform badly”

Hi Friend, A couple years ago, I bought a book called “The artists way”. Pretty much it sat on my shelf for a long while. But i’ve been thumbing through it recently, picking up little nuggets of wisdom. Here’s a cool quote: “Sometimes I will write badly, draw badly, paint badly, perform badly. I have

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Crazy weather story + lesson of the day

Hi Friend, So, the weather has been crazy —an earthquake and a hurricanein the same week. What arethe odds? It’s kind of a funny story,because I was sitting onmy sofa, watching a roughedit of one our upcomingDVDs. And there’s this mean,rockin guitar riff withdistortion and I hadthe TV on a bit loud. And the next

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How to Play Diatonic Legato Lick – Part 2

Hey, its Claude Johnson and today’s guitar lesson is Diatonic Legato Licks Part 2. Okay now, with these legato licks keep in mind that even though you’re not picking, it might be harder on the left hand because you’ve really got to get those hammer-ons and pull-offs in there to make the notes sound correctly.

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New DVD Course: Smooth Solo Secrets

New instructor Dokun demonstrates one of his “smooth solo” approaches. By the way, this is just one idea he’s demonstrating to play over a set of a changes… It’s not a “show off” solo per se.     PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENT! 🙂 More of Lead Guitar Techniques Lessons How to Play a Sweet Melodic

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A New Way To Making Smooth Guitar Solos

Hi Friend, I want to share a video with you today. No… its not one of my coolio lessons with tabs. I’ll have a “Claude Lesson” for you in the next email. Promise 🙂 No, today I want to show you what I can only call a “smooth” guitar solo. It’s not the fastest playing

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Cupid shot another guitarist!

Hi Friend, LOVE IS IN THE AIR FOLKS! God knows what’s going on but the Guitar Control family is getting shot by cupid left, right and center! First, Virtuwul got married in May. Then, I got engaged last month. And now: JIMMY DILLON IS GETTING MARRIED THIS WEEK! Congrats Jimmy! He’s actually already in Maui

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pay ManBearPig or space aliens will kill you

Hey Friend, I hope you’ve been enjoying the lessons I’m posting on my blog. I’ve been doing more of them lately with video and tabs. MY BLOG If you’ve been on my list for a while, you know I’ll do everything from guitar lessons to wacky entertainment, to sharing personal strories, whatever… So pardon me

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