Fingerstyle connecting runs are the glue that turns simple fingerpicked chord patterns into professional sounding accompaniment. With a few simple rules you’ll be able to incorporate this technique into your own playing. Watch this free video lesson to learn how and download the pdf below.
Skill Development – Bass Run Fills
Using bass run fills to connect common chord progressions is a great way to add interest to your own playing, or when you’re accompanying your class. Watch this free video lesson from Mike Christiansen and Consonus to learn how. Be sure to download the included PDF.
Creating a Fingerpicking Solo
Have you ever wondered how to go about combining a melody with a fingerpicked chordal accompaniment to create a solo guitar arrangement? If you don’t know the process it can seem like an insurmountable feat, well beyond the reach of the average guitarist. In this week’s Expert Tips video blog entry Mike Christiansen will demonstrate Read the Rest…
Chords, Chords, and More Chords
As a harmonic instrument the guitar offers the possibility of literally thousands of chords and voicings, yet most guitarists only know a handful of them. So which ones should you learn? It depends on the context. Each style of music has it’s own distinct signature in both the chord progressions and chord voicings that provide Read the Rest…
Spice Up Your Teaching with Guitar Licks
For this blog, I want to take a detour from the pedagogical material and show classroom guitar instructors a few licks that can be learned quickly and played while the students are strumming chords, or playing alternating bass, or even fingerpicking. Written below, are four licks (short, catchy phrases) that will work with G and Read the Rest…
