Secret Ninja Techniques I : Slides

Sliding from note to note is considered easy: Just pick a note, keep pressing the string while sliding the finger to another fret. Good! But sometimes even the most experienced guitar players land on a wrong note when doing this “Basic Slide”. A real ninja never fails to slide into the right note. He practices this technique in the dark.

Those Redass Baboons II: The Screams

Oh those redass baboons! And how they howl and dance. Their lifestyle can affect us in a musical manner. Researching their intense rhythms and the screams actually can alter our playing and therefore our bodies. Scream for me baboons!

Mode changes: A Mixolydian – G Dorian

Good! We’re flying high again with the Magic Carpet. This time we will expreriment with some mode changes. The loop starts with A mixolydian mode and then it changes into G dorian. And loop we go!

Those Redass Baboons I: The Rhythm

Oh those redass baboons! And how they howl and dance. Swinging from tree to tree. Eating green leaves. Oh that groove by those redass baboons…the groove of heavy metal.

Tapping with a Bird III

Here’s my ode for a bird and some ideas how to use the material from these “Bird” lessons in music. Grab your guitar, take a trip to a forest and enjoy the summer!

Mr. Fastfinger – Ode to a Bird

Tapping with a Bird II

Here’s more tapping ideas, inspired by a bird! Again we use the pick to tap the notes. Check out the previous “Bird” lesson first!

Diamonds – pickups as frets

Mode changes: A Mixolydian – A Dorian

Now more mode changes! The loop starts with A mixolydian mode. Then it changes into A dorian. The only difference of these two modes is the third note, C versus C#. Mixolydian is major mode while dorian is a minor mode. And loop we go!

Tapping with a Bird I

I was walking in the forest when I heard a sound. It was a very percussive tapping tone of a woodpecker.