Lick Library Pink Floyd/Dave Gilmour DVDs

Lick Library have just released some new Dave Gilmour DVD's, and one thing has really gotten my attention with these, and I hope they do some more.

There is a DVD here of Quick Licks In The Style Of. What a great idea. I'm not sure if they have done these before but it would personally find something like that much more useful than learning songs note for note.

Anyway, read below.

Press Release- January 2010

Lick Library release further Pink Floyd/Dave Gilmour Guitar Tuition DVDs

Lick Library’s extensive range of guitar tuition DVDs has just got bigger with the release of Learn to Play Pink Floyd Volume 2, Learn to Play Dave Gilmour the Solos, and Quick Licks in the style of Dave Gilmour. These new DVD sets give you the chance to study Dave Gilmour’s legendary guitar solos, licks and riffs and are presented by Jamie Humphries who draws heavily from his own personal experience of playing with the Australian Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd are one of rock music’s most critically acclaimed acts and their songs have for a generation of guitarists given inspiration and ideas. Lead guitarist Dave Gilmour solo’s and riff’s have been central to the Pink Floyd sound and are often characterised by blues-influenced phrasing, expressive note bends and the sustain he uses.

Learn to Play Pink Floyd Volume 2 (RRP £24.99) –Jamie Humphries studies note by note five classic tracks in this guitar workshop including Time, Mother, Learning to Fly, On the Turning Away and Have a Cigar. Each track is explained and demonstrates the techniques used such as rhythmic chord variations, blues scales, time signature changes and much more. This double DVD set also includes an in depth analysis of David Gilmour’s gear and its use, to help you get that Pink Floyd sound. An added bonus is actual footage of the Australian Pink Floyd live at the Royal Albert Hall.

Learn to Play Dave Gilmour the Solos (RRP £24.99) – Jamie takes you through the mighty solos from five timeless tracks, Comfortably Numb, Money, Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2), Time and Dogs on this double DVD set and CD of with jam tracks. This unique style of guitar lesson allows you to learn each solo at slow, medium, full tempo and play along with the tutor. You can practice these different tempos along with the accompanying CD of guitar jam tracks, further helping you study at your own pace.
Quick Licks in the style of Dave Gilmour (RRP 19.99), this guitar tutorial helps you learn killer blues licks in the style of Dave Gilmour. Jamie studies chord progression, dynamics, vibrato, whammy bar techniques and a whole lot more as you look at licks based around famous Pink Floyd tracks. These can be picked up quickly and incorporated into your guitar playing. Each lick is taken in short sections, played and explained slowly, and built up into full tempo. After this, you can play along to the accompanying guitar jam track to practice your new licks and techniques.

Lick Library offers you a wide choice of types of guitar tutoring formats – Learn to Play.., Quick Licks… and Jam with… In each format you are guided through tracks and licks by expert tutors who break them down into uncomplicated bite size sections. The DVDs are easy to navigate with chapter points at key positions in the tutorials. Lick Library includes many more famous guitar legends, all are available to purchase through www.licklibrary.com along with over 20,000 other guitar tuition products. For the ultimate range of tuition products, www.licklibrary.com has the comprehensive and definitive professional guides to learning to playing the guitar. Read more

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Here is an excellent site for when you get board with your warmup routine or basic scale drills. This system will automatically create a practice routine for you dependant on the options you select. You mention how many exercises you want to do, what scales and what style of exercise, and it will create them each time. You'll enjoy your warmup more if it is different everytime, so go check the site out.

Best laid plans…

Wow, what a few weeks. So busy and no time for anything. At least I got my new web site design solution business up and running with a snazzy new website (and if that sentence looked weird, I was dropping keywords for you net SEO savvy people). So after some delay I'm back with some guitar stuff.

As mentioned in a past post about learning my favourite guitar songs, I've hit a snag and had a rething. One song I cannot find a tab for, the other is in an open tuning and I would rather stick with standard for now, and the other is possibly a bit ahead of myself. So I'm changing the tracks. I'm still using the same guitarists.

Slash : was Paradise City, now Sweet Child O' Mine.
I love Paradise City, but this is such a memorable solo, I really just want to learn it.

Gary Moore : was midnight Blues, now Still Got The Blues
Again, an obvious choice, but for the same reasons as above

Rich Robinson : was Sting Me, now Hard To Handle
I can already play Hard To Handle, but I usually ad lib the solo with some references to the original. It's time I learned the way the solo should be played.

So there is the new list. I got my trusty GuitarPro fired up and ready to go. Now the fun begins. I've just got some new audio software so as I progress I'll record the improvements.

Learn from the best.

Last time I talked about what I was going to do on my journey of guitar self discovery. For my favourites, that is easy. Picking the songs was not so easy though. The songs I have picked are probably not necessarily my favourites, but I think have some of the best playing by that artist and are most indicative of their style. So what songs are they?

Slash - Paradise City
Sure, the obvious choice was Sweet Child, but c'mon!!!!! Slash just rocks and Paradise City has all the little intricate fills and a killer, KILLER end solo that is some of the Great One's finest work.

Gary Moore - Midnight Blues
As far as I know this is a covr and I'm not sure who it was originally by, but Gary has done this now on two albums, and the version I want to do is the second one from his 2006 album Old New Ballads Blues. This is the slower version of the song and some some beautiful slow blues guitar that I feel Mr. Moore is very under rated. One of the best parts about this song, and gary's playing in general, is the use of dynamics. Changing guitar setting while playing something I have only recently started doing and this song is full of subtle changes.

Rich Robinson - Sting Me
It was this or Remedy. I love the Black Crowes and gain the obvious choice was Conspiracy or Hard To Handle. But this song has got some great guitar lines weaving in and out of the chord progression and has everything in it a blues track should have.

I've got these songs and now just to find some tabs. Next stop, breaking out of the box.

To improve your guitar playing, you need a plan, not a goal.

WOW!! This is the most read post on this website! If you are looking for some great learning resources to improve your playing, you find some great links after the post.

I'm in the process of getting a new band together. It's been a while since Sledge finished up and I want to get back in the game. Unfortunately, with full time work and getting my own business off the ground, as well as some other projects I have found my chops to be severely lacking. Not that they were brilliant to begin with, but I got by. Lets just say I was better than the average Joe.

Anyway, I need to get back there, and I want to be better than ever. Call it an ego thing, but my fellow guitarist in this band is a natural player. A pure ear player who can hear anything and work it out almost note for note. I've always been more of a feel player and that is why we have always complimented each other's playing. What I want to do is make this a genuine two guitar line up even if I am handling the singing duties.

To that affect I am developing my own goals for getting back up to scratch and beyond, and have developed a plan to get there. Hopefully showing you how I am going to approach this will help you with planning your own regime, or you may see some serious flaws with mine and point me in a better direction. With a busy schedule (fiancé / full time work / part time business work / gym) I need to find some quick drills that I can do that I know will help.

Before planning your practice tasks you need to know when you can play. During the week I know I can squeeze in at least 30 minutes a day for basic exercises. That doesn't mean only 30 minutes, it's a minimum. Three night a week I go to the gym now, so the other two nights I can basically play for as long as I want. But 30 minute drills are the goal for my schedule.

So what do I want to learn. That my friends is the question. You will have your own mission, but mine was clear:

1. Get out of the box - lets finally use the entire fretboard
2. Learn from the greats - Pick three of my favourite guitarists and learn a song from each that best sums up what I like about their style
3. Left hand wizardry - get my left hand working the way it used to

Now I just have to find the tools to unleash the guitar monster within. I'm going to tackle these objectives in reverse order, so next time I'll share with you my personal guitar idols and what songs I have picked.

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