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    Hi fellow guitar lover … I missed out last week so I couldn’t say Happy New Year. May 2007 be your best yet!

    Weekly Lessons

    I missed out on telling you about the ‘Auld Lang Syne’ lesson I posted just after Christmas. The idea, of course, was to get you all practiced up with it for New Year’s Eve … bit late now, but there’s always next year! You’ll find that one here … it’s very easy, one of my new ‘stripped back’ lessons:

    http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8788

    I got such positive feedback on that simple approach that I’ve continued on with the stripped back approach. This week I’ve had another look at ‘Over the Rainbow’. I did a fairly complex version a while back which has become the most looked lesson there, but this time ’round it’s as bare-to-the-bone as you can get:

    http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9226

    I’ll do the bridge section next and carry on with these over the next while.

    GfB&B community

    We’ve passed the 26,000 mark, growing by the minute. If you haven’t already, come on over and join up then join in. All we ask is that you register … that’s just to keep the spam out.

    There are some great players posting their clips and our contributors are adding more lessons. ‘Tekker’ has done one on ‘Building hand and finger strength’ … always a good thing to have. Look for it here:

    http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9145

    PlaneTalk – The Truly Totally Different Guitar Instruction Book

    PlaneTalk continues to shed glaring light on the fretboard … if you’re one of the many looking for that one constant that will clear the confusion away for ever, do yourself the favor! The book/DVD will let you in on the simplest yet most powerful guitar lesson you’ll ever learn, one that will allow you to forget about scales/modes/boxes. I gave up on them decades ago once I realized that there’s a much better and foolproof way to approach the art of improvisation. Here’s a letter I received this week:

    “Hi Kirk, I bought your book sometime ago, and it unfortunately stayed on the shelf with all my other guitar books. Big mistake! At the end of last summer I had some time to spare and thought I’d take a look. That was the single most important thing I’d ever done with regards to playing the guitar!

    I am more excited about playing the guitar now than I have been my whole life, and tell any one who has a guitar to go and get the book!!

    Thanks again.”

    I get these all the time … there is more to it than the pentatonic scale or the blues scale … check out my Red Strat Blues clip at YouTube for an example of playing the blues NOT thinking scales, thinking PlaneTalk mindset:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh3orNb2n5s … you can no doubt see and hear that I’m not restricting myself to any box or any 5 notes … I’m thinking melody, I’m seeing the entire neck as my playground, and I’m using all 12 notes. PlaneTalk reveals how. Read all about it here.

    Slide Guitar in Standard and Dropped D Tunings

    I’ve loved playing slide since the first day I tried it out. What a neat sound! Like most, I tried in open tunings at first, but reverted back to standard after a while. I discovered how versatile it is, how all chord flavors are living there side by side and loved the fact that I didn’t have to remap the fretboard every time I played. In this 70 minute lesson, I talk and play you through all the elements. Have a look at this movie I put together last week showing some slide in dropped D played to some fingerstyle, also in dropped D:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDawEHIl1z8 and also this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LZ5Flveo4A

    If you want to learn how, check out the DVD here

    OK, that’s all I can think of … until next time, happy twanging,

    Kirk Lorange
    http://www.kirklorange.com

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