Blues Guitar Lessons www.play-blues-guitar.eu Scrapper Blackwell - Down and Out - Lesson Preview The Essential Features Of The Best Guitar Lesson Videso An internet search for guitar lessons in video format can turn out to be a daunting experience, even more so for the fledgling guitarist with no experience. What are the best features of the most effective packages on offer? As you might imagine, we can identify common components that might help us choose the right tuition. Simple To Follow Although it almost goes without saying, any tuition for any subject should flow in a logical way and be understood easily. First steps should be clearly outlined, and build into further lessons. Musical theory has it's place, but the new guitar player is literally impatient to start learning - he would like to play! This then must be the first action, presenting the basic things which can be put into practice straight away. When all said and done, a good knowledge of the first rules shouls bring massive benefits at a later dat. Notation or Tablature For years, classical guitarists learned to read music and followed the written notes when playing or creating new material. Inevitably, this signifies a progress that is often perceived as a little slow in our modern way of doing things. During the 60s, blues guitar maestro Stephan Grossman and others, invented a method of guitar tablature that represented the strings and frets of the guitar neck. This abbreviated guitar tablature could be rapidly learned and is an effective tool for learning blues guitar, for example. A grid of six strings is numbered from the bottom bass string (1) to the top E string (6) and a number placed on a string denotes which fret finger should be placed above. A straight line at the side of the number indicates that the picking thumb or finger is used. Image Presentation - What Should Appear On The Screen There could be many variations on this theme, but we can identify desirable features of this vital visual aid to guitar tuition. The student must be made aware right at the start what the object of the lesson is. If he is to learn a complete song, then that song needs to be performed in exactly the same as the detailed instruction demonstrated throughout the complete lesson. In advance of the detailed instruction, any difficult movements can be discussed and important advice given. Close ups of both hands are invaluable, and would be most effective shown seperately. Chord diagrams and tab may be overlaid on the screen, so that students can associate finger movements with the notation. More Desirable Features When being taught a song, it's good to have lyrics at hand and a brief discussion covering singing while playing at the same time. This might seem obvious, but it's very tricky for a new student to play and sing at the same! The full tablature and lyrics might be supplied as a separate Word or PDF file, which could be printed out and referred to at the student's leisure. A Wave audio file could also be provided, so that the instruction could be accessed casually at any time. Of course, if the video file is in a suitable format, it could be viewed on an iPhone or iPad. Deep River Blues Lesson www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4lMZxM5AFQ More guitar blues music here www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWGIiuAHveI

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