Kirk's Weekly Guitar Lesson: FunkE acoustic rhythm lesson

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Kirk's Weekly Guitar Lesson

I have a new finger style lesson for you this week. I call it FunkE ... it's funky and it's in E. This one is not for beginners. It's one of those riffs that's well and truly the sum of its parts, and the trick to getting it down is to take each little element, polish it up, then assemble them into one flowing unit. It's very fun to play and is open to endless variations.

Here is the link: FunkE acoustic rhythm lesson

Other new lessons

Contributing member 'solidwalnut', aka Steve Cass, has also loaded up a few new lessons:

Much ado about rhythm Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

Riffs in the style of Slash

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PlaneTalk - The Truly Totally Different Guitar Instruction Book

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Slide in Standard and Dropped -D

Have a look at the movie I uploaded to YouTube yesterday. I recently got the new version of Adobe Audition 2.0 and had fun putting a backing track together form the many loops that come with the program. I then played a slide solo over it in dropped D tuning, my favorite slide tuning. If you'd like to learn how I do it, you're in luck. I put together a DVD in which I reveal all my tricks and know-how. I also sell the custom made slides you'll see in the movie. They're machined from solid brass. Find out more about the DVD and slides here.

That's about it from me for this week, until next time,

Kirk Lorange

www.guitar.name