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TFU 5.3 Video CD-ROM: Supercharge Your Chops, Pt 2
Here's the second half of Guitar Player's 40th anniversary celebration article featuring 40 Timeless Tips from 40 years of Guitar Player magazine.
We thought the article and collection of licks, tricks and insight was so hot, we had to do up video lessons instead of the usual audio lessons.
Last month we featured the first twenty, and so this month you get the second twenty. Enjoy!
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Top Interactive Audio Pick! Celtic Colors
by David Surette
You don't have to develop a brogue to appreciate this lesson. David demonstrates how a French schottische, an Irish jig and a gavotte from Brittany - all traditional Celtic forms - can factor into your blues and country work.
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Tip Jar: 100 Greatest Blues Albums
If you're looking to supplement your CD library or just beef up on your blues trivia, this is a cool site to start. Digital Dreamer has come up with a list of the 100 greatest blues albums that are "These "Blues" albums were chosen to showcase the artists musical vision through their impact, originality, influence, creative inspiration & musical quality." At the very least, it warrants a peek at number one!
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Mixed Bag of Licks, Tricks and Fingerpicks
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Last month we kicked off the new Chop Suey video lesson segments and judging from your feedback... bingo! Thrilled to hear you dig the new format. This month features five sets of video lessons from our new Mixed Bag channel on TrueFire TV. We've got the bases covered with rock, blues, funk and some swing things. Dig in below.
Fingerstyle Finesse, our new fingerstyle course with Stephen Bennett, hit #1 with a bullet last week. Feedback is terrific and you can still sample some of the video excerpts here.
This month also showcases five new Playalong DVDs, which offer a major upgrade to their audio predecessors. These DVDs present the rhythm and lead guitar parts to a themed variety of popular tunes. At $15 each, they're a steal. See below for details.
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May's Video Picks: Practice Smart, Play Hard
Blues Busters: Yo B.B. - The King's signature cadenzas personify his distinct sound. This royal chop is built on position shifts, double-stops, chromaticism and minor pentatonics. This one might take you a session or two to nail but it's well worth the time and effort.
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Finger Spice: Jimi's Thang - Hendrix influenced the art of rock guitar in countless ways, particularly his monster rhythm chops and chord melody phrasing. Here's an extraordinarily insightful lesson on Hendrix's approach, which works an E-major pentatonic over a simple E, D, A vamp.
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Jazz Funk: Chameleon - Let's say Herbie hires you to play guitar on his ultra-funky two-chord epic Chameleon, a near-endless jam that never really strays from its simple I-IV progression. Will you bang away all night on the bloated Bbm7 and Eb7 barre chord grips? Less is more.
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Swing Rock: Bop- a-Billy - Setzer has a solid understanding of scales, theory, bebop and harmony. This line twists an A major scale over an A7 vamp and very effectively illustrates how to color up diatonic riffs with some sweeps, chromatacism, slides and style.
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Rock Sho p: Ed's Boogie - This rockin' boogie, ala Eddie, is from a series of lessons focused on achieving the optimal tone for a particular tune. Good information here on tweaking tone but also a sweet little diddie to work on in the shed.
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What's New and Cool on TrueFire TV
We've just posted another 250 videos up on All Access TV bringing the total to well over 3,000 videos now. Most of these videos make up a new Mixed Bag channel, which is filled with a variety of choice moves across many techniques and styles.
The full version of TrueFire TV serves up 3,000+ video lessons with notation, jam tracks, text, power tab and all advanced tools. Unlimited access on TrueFire TV is available to Level 1 and Level 2 TrueFire Students. Visit JOIN to compare tuition and plans.
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Brand New! Guitar Play-Along DVD Series
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The Guitar Play-Along DVD Series lets you hear and see how to play
popular songs from a variety of styles. Each song starts with a lesson
from a professional guitar teacher. Then, the teacher performs the complete
song along with professionally recorded backing tracks. You can choose to
turn the guitar off if you want to play along or leave the guitar in the mix
to hear how it should sound. You can also choose from three viewing options:
fret hand with tab, wide view with tab, pick & fret hands close-up. Only
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TAX TIP! Musician's Tax Seminar |
A few of you may remember
our good friend and master luthier, David Bland. David has tweaked many a
TrueFire guitar with Buzz Feiten tuning
systems. David also happens to be a CPA and musician, and thus very
familiar with preparing taxes for professional musicians.
He and his partner, George Shepherd have
teamed up and released a seminar specifically geared to address the tax
issues that face all musicians and entertainers. Their Musician's Tax
Seminar educates musicians about what special deductions apply to them,
proper record keeping techniques, incorporation strategies for your band,
and an audio guide and sample form that will walk you step-by-step through
filling out a typical musician's tax return.
The package is priced at a very
reasonable $49 and they back it up with a 100% guarantee. If you are a pro,
it might make sense to have a look at the material as you prepare for April
15th.
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