The Rock Guitar Power Blog

Guitar Practice Ideas Archives

Playing Guitar With Your Eyes Closed – A Lesson On Playing Emotionally

One of the aspects of guitar playing that you should always strive for is playing with emotion. Whether it’s your own music or someone else’s.

To illustrate this idea and give you some great tips on how to get started, I made a lesson where I play some really intense guitar for you….With My Eyes Closed!

Check out the following video where I play the intro to “Asturias” by Isaac Albeniz

Now please understand this is not to show off or wax my ego…I find that when you are able to play guitar without looking at it, you can reach a new level of playing because you can shut off the sense of sight and focus on sound and how you want your playing to be heard.

It’s a cool concept and a really awesome some to apply to your playing!

Be sure to leave your comments, questions and other rants below

Practice, Practice, Practice!

If you want to see the first video I made for this song where I talk about using a metronome and writing strong melodies: Click Here

Also, Go here to see a video of John William’s perform this piece: http://youtu.be/wDAHl54V0CU

This performance is what inspired me to learn this piece. In my opinion he plays this flawlessly with so much emotion it’s amazing. Yet he doesn’t do so much as flinch while playing the whole thing!

P.S. I’m always looking for new topics to cover and help the RGP community out on so if you have something your struggling with in your playing, please let me know and I’ll create a lesson to help you out!

HowToWriteA16BarGuitarSolo

Comments (6)

I have a really cool lesson to show you today where we are going to go over how you can write a 16 bar guitar solo!

To follow up on a previous lesson we did out in the woods, we are going to use some familiar backing tracks and dig into how you can sculpt out your lead playing to be more interested and fun to play!

New Jam Track With Bass Line!

This is the main jam track you hear in the video. The track is in the key of B minor and the tempo is set at 110 Bpm. If your just starting out, try using the Minor Pentatonic Scale starting on the 7th fret!

Jam Track #1:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

You can see the first lesson in this series by going here: http://www.rockguitarpower.com/blog/outside-jam-session-and-lesson

Asturias Guitar Lesson – Metronome and Melody Practice

Comments (3)

In this video I show you the intro to a classical piece called “Asturias” by Issac Albeniz. I use this song to create a lesson about focusing on melody and using a metronome. This is an Awesome piece of music that I have committed learning. Check it out and I’ll keep you up to date on the progress.

There are many classical guitarists who play and perform this piece but my favorite is John Williams. Go here to see an amazing performance of it: http://youtu.be/wDAHl54V0CU

Back Pocket Band Review

Comments (2)

In this video I give a review of Back Pocket Band by Hearandplay.com. This is an awesome new software that is going to make practicing a ton of fun!

Click on the following video to see me using Back Pocket Band and show you all the cool things it can do!

To check out Back Pocket Band, click on the following link:

http://www.rockguitarpower.com/go/backpocketband

The Importance Of Recording

Comments (1)

Here are some pictures of past and present recording studio setups that I have had:

here

In this video I give you a tour of the new recording studio and show a clip of the first jam session I had with Ryan Barclay from The Moho Collective!