Chords and Rhythm

How to Play Latin Rhythms on Acoustic Guitar

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, excited to bring you this lesson. We’re looking at a little bit of a Latin Montuno here. A lot of Latin music is very much based on the rhythm. When you’re soloing over like montuno sections and stuff, a lot of times

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Chords

How to Do This Cool Guitar Chord Exercise Using the Thumb

How’s it going, guys? My name is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. What we’re looking at right now is an exercise just using our thumb. I like to use the thumb when I’m playing all the time to play notes on the lower strings. The more you use

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Jazz

How to Play 2nd 4 Bars From J.Coltrane´s Giant Steps On Jazz Guitar

How’s it going, guys? My name is John McClennanand I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, excited tobring you this video lesson. We’re looking atJohn Coltrane’s standard, “Giant Steps” today.I’m showing you some chords. We’ve been workingthrough the first four bars of the tune, and nowwe’re going to work through the cycle of chordsthat begins on the next

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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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Jon Maclennan

How to Play Guitar Lick with Interval of 5ths George Benson Style

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. We just looked at a George Benson style octave lick and just a real funky, earthy blues lick that sounded like this. Now I’m going to show you another George Benson trick which is, instead of just playing the

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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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Jazz

How to Play Jazz Guitar Lick in the Style of Wes Montgomery

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan andI’m here with guitarcontrol.com, showing youanother lick here from one of the masters,Wes Montgomery. This is a great lick. I love it.It’s from a tune called “Missile Blues” and thispart of the lick is so great because it sounds likea bluesy pentatonic line harmonized with diminished chords.

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