Clare Free is one of the fastest rising stars on the UK Blues circuit and is an artist who is redefining the blues for the modern world. Her roots lie in the blues but her influences go way beyond the genre making her one of the most exciting new artists writing and performing in the blues world today. A passionate, award nominated, songwriter and a fabulous guitar player, she has an excellent band. Clare’s performances are fiery, exciting and heartfelt.

Clare won the “Best Acoustic Performance” in the 2011 WRC Awards and her new album “Dust and Bones” will be released on Friday 23rd March 2012.

Visit www.clarefree.co.uk to find out more about Clare and check out some of her exciting blues tracks.

In this exclusive blues guitar lesson, Clare demonstrates how to take a simple pentatonic lick in A minor and slowly build it up into something that is both bluesy and exciting. Using elements of the Dorian mode Clare turns this straight forward lick into something this is perfect for any blues guitar solo.

Video Guitar Lesson: How to take a simple lick and build on it.

Guitar Tablature & Playing Notes

We hope you enjoy Clare’s lesson and look out for a full interview soon!

We are getting ready to launch our second installment of the ‘In the style of’ series of guitar lessons. Whilst we are busy adding the final touches you can check out a sneek preview of Mike performing this incredible solo.

For the full solo and more details about this downloadable guitar package be sure to keep checking the URL below.

http://fretpoint.com/joe-satriani-lesson/

If you want to be the first to know when this package becomes available then like the Fretpoint Facebook page to be sent a notification as soon as it goes live.

Fretpoint.com is proud to announce it’s first ever product! As the first installment of a 5 part “In the style of…” series that Fretpoint will be producing over the next few months, this downloadable video guitar lesson is now available to purchase.

Focusing on one of the greatest guitar players of our era, Andy Timmons and taught by the incredibly talented Mike Baugh, the video will talk you through a full guitar solo that features many of Andy’s signature licks.

The package includes;

1. Full high quality video guitar lesson
2. 2 x High quality videos of the full guitar solo featuring different angles
3. High quality MP3 backing track
4. MP3 audio version of the guitar solo
5. Accurate guitar tablature for the entire solo

Check out the video trailer below to see Mike in action.

Visit the In The Style of Andy Timmons Video Guitar Lesson page for more information.

Welcome to a new series of guitar lessons featuring classic guitar riffs. This first classic riff is ‘Fly by Night’ by Rush, the title track to their 1975 album. This classic Alex Lifeson riff is fairly easy to play and if your starting to master guitar chords then it’s a great song to help you move on to basic guitar riffs.

I would concentrate on breaking down the intial two chords. Try and get a clean staccato attack on both of them. Then play the descending riff seperately. Take your time with this and pay attention to letting the descending notes ring out. This may take a while as you’ll need to develop both finger string and dexterity (keeping your fingers out of the way to let the notes ring out).

Once you can play this riff competently and to the correct time then start to glue the two parts together.

There are so many other guitar riffs that are similar to this one that you’ll be surprised at how easily you’ll be able to pick up new riffs.

Intro Riff Tablature

   D    Dsus4           C       G/B      Gm/Bb     A  G  A
E:-2--2---3--3-|-------------3-------3---------3------------|
B:-3--3---3--3-|-------------3-------3---------3---2--0--2--|
G:-2--2---0--0-|-------------0-------0---------0---2--0--2--|
D:-0--0---2--2-|----------2-------0----------0-----2--0--2--|
A:-------------|--0--2--3-------2-------0--1-------0--0--0--|
E:-------------|--------------------------------------------|

Video for Fly By Night by Rush

Hope you enjoy learning this guitar riff and please leave your questions below if you get stuck anywhere.

Guitar legend and Berklee alum Steve Vai have announced an exclusive new 12-week online course entitled  Steve Vai Guitar Techniques where guitarists will learn some of Steve’s amazing guitar secrets. Guitarists can learn directly from Steve and the Berklee faculty from anywhere in the world in this ‘one-of-a-kind’ online guitar course.

Check out the introduction video for Steve’s course below.

Berkleemusic.com is basically the online extension school of Berklee College of Music so comes with a high musical pedigree. This course is going to be red hot and it will be interesting to how many other high profile guitarists (satriani maybe?) follow suit.

The course starts January 10th 2011 so better get in quick if you want to enroll. Visit www.berkleemusic.com/vai/for more information.

Check out the screenshots and promotional video below to get  a true flavour of just how good this course is.

If you want to find our more about this product you can read a review of Gibson’s Learn & Master Guitar over at our sister website www.learntheguitarnow.com.

These are our favourite courses and come highly recommended by Fretpoint.

Gibson’s Learn and Master Guitar

Now produced in conjunction with Gibson, ‘Learn and Master Guitar’ is heralded as being one of the best home study guitar courses available and is a highly polished product. It’s taught by Steve Krenz who has an exceptionaly bio having performed with Grammy winning artists like The Fifth Dimension and Israel Houghton. It is the winner of an Acoustic Guitar Magazine Players’ Choice Award, two Telly Awards and an AEGIS Award for Excellence in Education which speaks for itself.

The course features 20 professionally produced DVDs filmed in HD with over 40 hours of instruction, Jam-Along CDs and 100+ page lesson book.

If you have no or limited access to the internet or prefer to learn via DVD then this is the course for you.

Visit Gibson’s Learn & Master Guitar Website

JamPlay

Jamplay is a membership site which broadcasts high-definition video guitar lessons in a variety of popular styles. They have 472 hours of lessons from 44 professional instructors, including 158 song lessons with new guitar lessons are added daily. They have skillfully blended guitar instruction with interactivity by allowing students to ask questions to their video instructors in real time. Each instructor teaches by “lesson set” rather than the usual small video clips which allows for a more in depth approach to learning. They also have plenty of free video clips so you can get a feel of the overall quality on offer.

Visit the jamplay website

Guitar Tricks

This website is a polished affair with high quality video and superb tuition on offer. You can check out the website easily by registering for a free account. This will allow you access to 24 video guitar lessons across a range of styles which will give you a pretty good idea as to the quality of the tuition on offer.

The Guitar Tricks Curriculum includes eight interconnected courses with a total of 1500 lessons and it’s guitar courses are designed by top music teachers with advanced degrees from the legendary Musician’s Institute and Berkelee School of Music.

The guitar tricks website is a membership website which means you pay a monthly fee to join and will need to keep subscribing in order to keep accessing your guitar lessons.

Visit the Guitar Tricks website

I found this kick ass video tutorial thanks to Jon at www.guitarnoize.com. It features a chap called Adrian who runs an excellent website called AdrianTracks. The website looks great and although there aren’t that many lessons on there yet, if they are anything like this then I think the website will be very popular.

Adrian runs through how you can get that early AC/DC tone via the popular guitar software package GuitarRig. In my opinion he pretty much nails the rhythmand lead tone and you can get the presets via the link below. Have fun!

http://www.adriantracks.com/how-to-1-acdc-guitar-tone-sound

However his technique isn’t always what it seems and in this guitar lesson he teaches you how to play the echo song from the album ‘Get Out Of My Yard’ which surprisingly is easier than it first appears. In this video Paul explains how he basically turns a staccato 8th note melodic pattern into a fast 16th note pattern using a standard delay pedal.

Here is the video

Echo Song Tab

Here is the guitar tab for the basic pattern used in the track.

E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------12----------------------------15-13-12----------|
G|----------12----------12----------------12----------12-------------------|
D|-------14----------14----------------14----------14----------------------|
A|-12-15-------12-15-------------12-15-------12-15-------------------12-15-|
E|----------------------------15----------------------------------15-------|

E|----------------------------------------------14-15----14----15----14----|
B|-------------------12-------------13----15-13-------15----13----13----13-|
G|----12----------12----------12-11----11----------------------------------|
D|-14----------14-------10-12----------------------------------------------|
A|-------12-15-------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------12----------------------------15-13-12----------|
G|----------12----------12----------------12----------12-------------------|
D|-------14----------14----------------14----------14----------------------|
A|-12-15-------12-15-------------12-15-------12-15-------------------12-15-|
E|----------------------------15----------------------------------15-------|

E|----------------------------------------------14-15----14----15----14----|
B|-------------------12-------------13----15-13-------15----13----13----13-|
G|----12----------12----------12-11----11----------------------------------|
D|-14----------14-------10-12----------------------------------------------|
A|-------12-15-------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

E|------------------------14-15-12-----------------------14-15-12-|
B|---------------------13-----------------------------12----------|
G|-------------11-12-9------------------------11-12-9-------------|
D|----------10------------------------------9---------------------|
A|---9-10-7--------------------------9-10-7-----------------------|
E|-8-------------------------------7------------------------------|

E|--------------------14-15-----------------------14-15-12-|
B|-----------7-8------------17-----------7-8-5-------------|
G|---------------9-14--------------------------12----------|
D|---4-5---7---------------------4-5-2-5-------------------|
A|-------7-------------------------------------------------|
E|-5---------------------------3---------------------------|

E|------------------------14-15-12-----------------------14-15-12-|
B|---------------------13-----------------------------12----------|
G|-------------11-12-9------------------------11-12-9-------------|
D|----------10------------------------------9---------------------|
A|---9-10-7--------------------------9-10-7-----------------------|
E|-8-------------------------------7------------------------------|

E|--------------------14-15-------------------------------------12-14-|
B|-----------7-8------------17-------------------------12-11-14-------|
G|---------------9-14-----------------------------9-11----------------|
D|---4-5---7-------------------------------9-8-11---------------------|
A|-------7-----------------------2-1-4-7-9----------------------------|
E|-5---------------------------2--------------------------------------|

E|-------------------7-8-5----17-15-13----12-14-15----12-14-15-|
B|-----------------6-------13----------12----------12----------|
G|-----------4-5-2---------------------------------------------|
D|---------3---------------------------------------------------|
A|---2-3-0-----------------------------------------------------|
E|-1-----------------------------------------------------------|

E|----13-15-17-20-17-------19----15----12----------------------------------|
B|-13----------------18-------17-------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------17----------16----12-------12----------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------16----------14----------------|
A|----------------------------------------------14----14----10-14----10-14-|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------12-------|

E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------12----------------------------15-13-12----------|
G|----------12----------12----------------12----------12-------------------|
D|-------14----------14----------------14----------14----------------------|
A|-12-15-------12-15-------------12-15-------12-15-------------------12-15-|
E|----------------------------15----------------------------------15-------|

E|----------------------------------------------14-15----14----15----14----|
B|-------------------12-------------13----15-13-------15----13----13----13-|
G|----12----------12----------12-11----11----------------------------------|
D|-14----------14-------10-12----------------------------------------------|
A|-------12-15-------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

E|-------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------|
G|----------12----------14----------16----------17-|
D|-------14----------16----------17----------19----|
A|-12-15-------14-17-------15-19-------17-21-------|
E|-------------------------------------------------|

E|-------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------|
G|----------12----------14----------16-19-17-16-12-|
D|-------14----------16----------17----------------|
A|-12-15-------14-17-------15-19-------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------|

E|-------12-15-------14-17-------15-19-------17-20-|
B|----13----------15----------17----------19-------|
G|-14----------16----------17----------19----------|
D|-------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------|

Superb online guitar tuner from http://www.gieson.com. Features different guitar tones, delay effect and kill switch which is all wrapped up in a nice interface.

Multifunctional guitar tuner from www.howtotuneaguitar.org which allows you to tune to multiple tunings and also features various tones

One of the oldest online guitar tuners courtesy of Hotfrets.

JamPlay’s own online guitar tuner features several tuning configurations including open tuning, ethnic, open c, drop d, open g, d minor, open d, or modal. You can also select the playback speed for each tuning note.

Ultra simple guitar tuner from http://www.guitarforbeginners.com.

Nicely designed bass guitar tuner from www.get-tuned.com.