I Can't Help Falling In Love With You
• The first video shows the whole tune
• The second video shows you how to play it
Resources:
Peg (Steely Dan)
Nowhere Man (Beatles)
(In key of D, for lower voices)
Rose Room Solo (Charlie Christian)
Other Charlie solos:
“Airmail Special”
“Blues in B”
“Seven Come Eleven”
This one has some fancy picking and goes by pretty quick, so I’m calling it an *intermediate* lick.
PDF documents
• Solo Score and TAB (with fingering)
• Intro, Chords, Clarinet Solo
Backing Tracks
• 'Digital Audio' Style:
Solo Section: 120bpm, 147bpm
Whole Song: 120bpm, 147bpm
• 'MIDI' Style:
No Guitar: 80bpm, 100bpm, 147bpm
With Solo: 80bpm, 100bpm, 147bpm
FULL PLAY-ALONG VERSION, JUST $1.99
• Movable Chords (Root on 5th String) PDF
• 3 Chord Families (Plus Dim., Aug.) PDF
• Diatonic Chords (on Scale Circle) PDF
Related Lessons:
• Play Major Scale on 1 String• Triads: The Four Most Basic Chords
• Ear Training: Intervals, "Tone Deafness"...
• Diatonic Thirds in Four Modes
• Seventh Chords (and 2-5-1 Chord Progression)
Resources:
Related Lessons:
> Foundation of Improvisation
1) Major Pentatonic Scale: Across Neck
Other lessons in the series:
2) Maj. Pent.: Up the Neck 3) Min. Pent.: Across the Neck 4) Min. Pent.: Up the Neck
> Foundation of Improvisation <
4) Minor Pentatonic Scale:
Up Neck
Other lessons in the series:
Jazz Chords: 9th, 11th and 13th
• Add more color and sophistication to your chords, and learn which ones NOT to play 😉
– Expressive Techniques –
Sliding
• PDF TAB/Score for Sliding, Bending,
Hammer-on&Pull-off Exercises
• 12-Bar Blues Backing Tracks for above three lessons
Beginning Soloing: Ionian
• Major Scale (Bright, Happy)
• Hum It, Then Play It
Related Lessons:
• Backing tracks in 4 different modes
• TAB/Score of licks and concepts presented
The purpose of this lesson is to show that it's possible to play something on the guitar "by ear;" that is, without any sheet music (traditional or TAB).
It may seem corny to figure out how to play the melody to "Happy Birthday" up and across the neck, but I think it can help the beginner understand 1) how the guitar works, and 2) that "music is something you hear, not see."
One of my goals as a guitar teacher is to get the student to be able to play by ear; that is, to be able to hear something in your head and play it. This is, of course, the way music was played originally.
Being able to read music is a valuable skill, but too many times I meet people who took piano lessons for several years (for example), but cannot play a note without sheet music. To me, this means they never really learned to be musicians--only typists!
