Chords and Rhythm

How To Make Fingerpicking Exercise Using Basic Chords On Acoustic Guitar

Hi everybody. This is Darrin Goodman from guitarcontrol.combringing you this video lesson today. Today I want to teachyou a really simple little exercise for fingerpicking thatI came up with. This is going to do kind of a couple of thingshere. One, it will help you with chord changing and stuff, youneed a little work on

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Chords and Rhythm

Easy Picking Exercise From “Malagueña” on Acoustic Spanish Guitar

Hey, how’s it going this is Darrin Goodman with Guitar Control, I’m bringing this little video lesson on a little Spanish Guitar kind of thing as an exercise, it’s part of the piece “Malagueña” there’s so many different renditions of Malagueña that you know, I hate to ever say this is this is how Malagueña

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Chords and Rhythm

How to Play Basic Samba Rhythm For Guitar

Hey, how’s it going this is Jon McLennan with Guitar Control, . What I want to show you today is just a basic samba pattern for guitar. I’m thinking of this in two beats per measure is just 1, 2; 1, 2 and the chord that I’m going to use in the example are in

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Chords and Rhythm

How to Play An Upbeat Samba Groove Pattern on Electric Guitar

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. What I want to show you today is an upbeat sort of samba pattern, one of the ways I like to play it on electric here. The chord changes that I’m going through here are from the

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Chords and Rhythm

How to Play a `Montuno´ Latin Rhythm on Guitar

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. Here we’re looking at just a very simple, basic Latin style montuno, moving from an A minor 7 to a D7 or a D9, which again is one of the most common chord progressions out there, is

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Chords and Rhythm

How to Play Latin `Montuno´ Style – Latin Rhythm Guitar Lesson

Hey, how’s it going this is Jon McLennan with Guitar Control, bringing you this video lesson and we’re looking at a typical minor cliche chordal movement and we’re using it in a “Montuno” vamp, which is definitely a Latin rhythm. The chords we’re looking at here are basically starting on an A minor: 7, 5,

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Chords and Rhythm

How to Play Rhythm Guitar Jimi Hendrix Style

How’s it going, guys?This is John McClennan andI’m here with guitarcontrol.com,bringing you this video lesson.Today we’re looking at sort of anR&B school of rhythm playing,a la Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper,Jimi Hendrix, got the sliding fourths,fifths sound in this lick. The basic idea, I’m in the key of E,and I’m starting on either a rootnote or

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Chords and Rhythm

How to Play Latin Rhythms Like `Montuno´ on Guitar

How’s it going, guys? John McClennan here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. We’re looking at a montuno, this time in the key of C major. We were looking at a few in A minor and now we’re going to get a major variation to what we were playing before. We’re going to start

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