This video will give you some help on how to use a clip-on tuner. Make sure you learn the names and numbers of your strings. E, A, D, G, B, & E, coincides with strings 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, & 1. This is from the top of your guitar, down. Replay this video as many times as you need!!!
Lesson Category: Technique Videos
Capos and How to Use Them
This video covers the type of capos I like, and how to use them.
Funk Rock Practice Em C G & D
Practice your funk rock strum with a different progression of chords. You will need to know Em, C, G, and D, to follow this video.
Funk Rock Strum
Let’s learn how to use a syncopated strum that I named Funk Rock. It makes many 4/4 time songs much more interesting, when you can change up the strum.
Polka Beat
In this technique video, we will learn how to play the polka beat on the guitar. It’s the first strum I ever learned, and seems to be disappearing. Not many people know, or use this strum. If it strikes your fancy, learn it, and use it in songs like Jingle Bells, and Jalisco. There are many songs with a 2/4 beat, that can use this; definitely a lot of Spanish songs.
Standard ¾ strumming pattern
In this technique video, let’s work on learning to strum in 3/4 time. That’s pronounced “three-quarter time.” This is a common strum in a lot of Christmas songs like, Silent Night, and Away in the Manger.
Standard 4/4 picking pattern
In this Technique guitar lesson, you can learn a 4/4 picking pattern. This is a good pattern to learn as a first time lesson on finger style picking. Kids, and adults alike can learn this pattern.
Soft Rock Standard 4/4 Guitar Strum
In this technique guitar lesson, learn how to do a standard 4/4 guitar strum. Kids, and adults alike can learn to do this very common strum.