With a little help from Ted Reed's 'Syncopation for the Modern Drummer' book, I demonstrate by playing Lesson 4's 20 bar rhythm reading exercise with guitar chords/bass notes and clapping out the rhythms. This exercise will include both quarter notes (crotchets) AND eighth notes (quavers) 👏
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Welcome to the QUICK HITS ON GUITAR series where I pick a popular song straight off the charts and translate it onto the guitar. This episode shows you how to play Salem Ilese's song: "Mad At Disney" 🐭
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With the help of Ted Reed's 'Syncopation for the Modern Drummer' book I demonstrate by playing Lesson 1's 16 Bar rhythm reading exercise with guitar chords/bass notes and clapping out the rhythms 👏
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Welcome to the QUICK HITS ON GUITAR series where I pick a popular song straight off the charts and translate it's main riff onto the guitar. This episode shows you how to play the main riff in Cardi B's latest banger: "WAP".
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Do you have a hard time knowing when to come in during a song? Being able to recognise rhythms by either listening to them or by reading them on a piece of sheet music is really helpful in general, and especially if you have to learn a heap of songs within a short period of time. Playing the corre...
Are you the kind of person who likes to embrace the spotlight or do you shy away from it? In this video I'm going to be talking about what motivates people to either seek out or avoid attention, and why... Can you still have a successful career in the music industry without being an attention see...
As a full time musician my main aim is to give as much value as I possibly can. In this video I go through a number of ways I like to provide value to an audience or to my music students. I hope you take some of these methods on board as I’m sure they’ll be of a great benefit to you and those you...
So... you've got lyrics, a melody and a chord progression (a song), but how are you going to deliver them? What kind of emotion are you trying to convey and what kind of message are you trying to communicate? These are just two things you'll need to consider when it comes time to arrange your son...
Have you ever wondered what makes somebody a songwriter? Or how some of the world's biggest bands decide who gets a songwriting credit and who doesn't? In this video I reveal how bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Doors and U2 deal with songwriting credits and royalties + some bands who have e...
I saw Red Hot Chili Peppers LIVE and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt. Just kidding! I got so much more (and I bought the T-Shirt at Kmart) 👕
Ok... you got me! These T-Shirts themselves didn't change my life but they do represent moments in my life that were monumental in my development as a music...
Sometimes you'll hear a song that doesn't seem to have a clear verse or chorus. Some songs are just made of two distinct parts that don't fall into either of those categories. In this video, we'll look at some old-school song structures including Strophic, Binary and Ternary 🎶
If you haven't alrea...
An analysis of the song structure of "Hospitable (Keep On Running)” by my old band The Secret Game. It'll give you a better understanding of song structure and why we made the creative choices we did when writing the song. It might also give you some ideas of how you could structure one of your o...
