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Welcome to our collection of FREE #guitarlessons!! If you ❤️ LOVE GUITAR then you've come to the right place for #guitar tips, chat and ideas. Our #podcast is aimed at every level of guitarist, with some quite advanced ideas. You can listen here on #SoundCloud or via other streaming sites like iTunes or Stitcher. As a podcast you can listen while cooking, cleaning, working, driving, commuting, in the gym or while doing other activities... What a great way to use your time to polish up your guitar knowledge and gain some ideas to look further into and try out when practising! Listen in to Dan Davies' superb guitar lessons and learn (with me, Gary Shilladay) from an excellent player. Stay tuned for more guitar tricks, tips and advice. Subscribe, follow and comment on our website https://tunein-toneup.com (see for show notes, further research, videos and tabs). SHARE our playlists and help to spread some free guitar tips. We really appreciate all your help, support and involvement!! Our playlists: https://soundcloud.com/tunein-toneup/sets/tune-in-tone-up Write us a review, rate and/or subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/tune-in-tone-up!-free-guitar/id1187509288?mt=2 Support us at PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/tuneintoneup

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United Kingdom

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Welcome to our collection of FREE #guitarlessons!! If you ❤️ LOVE GUITAR then you've come to the right place for #guitar tips, chat and ideas. Our #podcast is aimed at every level of guitarist, with some quite advanced ideas. You can listen here on #SoundCloud or via other streaming sites like iTunes or Stitcher. As a podcast you can listen while cooking, cleaning, working, driving, commuting, in the gym or while doing other activities... What a great way to use your time to polish up your guitar knowledge and gain some ideas to look further into and try out when practising! Listen in to Dan Davies' superb guitar lessons and learn (with me, Gary Shilladay) from an excellent player. Stay tuned for more guitar tricks, tips and advice. Subscribe, follow and comment on our website https://tunein-toneup.com (see for show notes, further research, videos and tabs). SHARE our playlists and help to spread some free guitar tips. We really appreciate all your help, support and involvement!! Our playlists: https://soundcloud.com/tunein-toneup/sets/tune-in-tone-up Write us a review, rate and/or subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/tune-in-tone-up!-free-guitar/id1187509288?mt=2 Support us at PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/tuneintoneup

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@Shillers13

Language:

English


Episodes

Rhythm Guitar Lesson 1b: Ideas to develop your groove, pulse and funk

2/3/2023
Timings for the SoundCloud audio version of Rhythm Guitar Lesson 1b: 00:00:22 Using Eartrainer to practise the rhythm of a piece separated from the melody 00:01:08 A simple idea for practising rhythm 00:01:22 Starting with a bar of 4/4 and then throwing in some 8th notes 00:02:28 Using the offbeat and how to play challenging rhythms 00:02:58 Riff from Human by the Killers and timing it right 00:03:40 The 8th note at the beginning of the riff that isn't heard 00:05:10 Sing the rhythms - do it...

Duration:00:20:36

Rhythm Guitar Lesson 1a: Note divisions, terminology and practice ideas

1/28/2023
This is the first lesson in our new mini-series on the topic of rhythm. R.I.P. Jeff Beck :( Dan and I, in our first lesson look over the basics of rhythm: Firstly, covering what the difference between a quarter note, eighth note and sixteenth note along with the synonyms of crotchet, quaver and semi-quaver. Next Dan talks about staccato, dotted notes, tied notes, off-beats and counting; along with guitar strumming techniques which work for him. Finally, we look at some reggae and funk...

Duration:00:24:17

Jeff Beck songs and albums to listen to and a quick update

1/12/2023
Rick Beato and Tim Pierce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2IWnGNF80I Andy wood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGcCswgaleE Rick Beato on Jeff Beck having just seen him 3 months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV9bnaqqfq8&t=161s Live at Ronnie Scotts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFx__GfJHWw I just wanted to share my own listening and way of absorbing the tragic news of Jeff Beck's passing. I really thought I was going to see him again. The man was such a legend and what he played...

Duration:00:08:32

Guitar lesson on using bends, specifically overbends, when improvising

12/19/2022
Sponsor Tune in Tone up and become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/tuneintoneup (e.g. £1 / month as a tip for what we do) Sign up as an All Access student to TrueFire here: https://prf.hn/l/3Y32QvV Sign up to TrueFire today: https://prf.hn/l/MDmJ5bB Save 30% on anything at TrueFire with promo code: "TONEUP30" This is our follow up episode following on from last week’s foray into the jamming tracks created by Andy Timmons on TrueFire’s “In the Jam” tracks. This week, we start the episode...

Duration:00:19:44

Guitar lesson on dynamics, motifs and subtlety using Andy Timmon's TrueFire Jam Track

12/12/2022
Sign up as an All Access student to TrueFire here: https://prf.hn/l/3Y32QvV Sign up to TrueFire today: https://prf.hn/l/MDmJ5bB Save 30% on anything at TrueFire with promo code "TONEUP30" Timings for the SoundCloud audio version 00:00:34 TrueFire - offers and advert 00:02:17 Jam over Andy Timmons TrueFire track 00:05:36 Talking about Andy Timmons 00:06:56 Introduction to TrueFire's 'In the Jam' controls 00:08:46 Let's listen to Andy Timmons playing over the same track 00:09:56 Moved along...

Duration:00:23:42

Guitar lesson on playing with pace: plectrums, picking, practise, sequences and strings

12/5/2022
Sign up as an All Access student to TrueFire here: https://prf.hn/l/3Y32QvV Sign up to TrueFire today: https://prf.hn/l/MDmJ5bB Save 30% on anything at TrueFire with promo code "TONEUP30" This is our follow up episode on playing at speed and pace. It follows on from our earlier lesson on how to use sequences to open the fretboard and also the previous episode on TrueFire courses and their jam tracks. During this lesson Dan discusses plectrums and we look at 5 specific types and discuss some...

Duration:00:41:27

Guitar lesson exploring voice leading, alternate picking and a TrueFire jam track

11/28/2022
Sign up as an All Access student to TrueFire here: https://prf.hn/l/3Y32QvV Sign up to TrueFire today: https://prf.hn/l/MDmJ5bB Save 30% on anything at TrueFire with promo code "TONEUP30" This is the first part of an episode on playing at speed and pace. It follows on from our earlier lesson on how to use sequences to open the fretboard. Next lesson we will look at some ways that you might use sequences to build speed and gain interest. Dan will also identify the two-string rule and explain...

Duration:00:27:02

Guitar lesson on using sequences for the ‘wow’ factor and beyond the Pentatonic box

11/21/2022
Sign up as an All Access student to TrueFire here: https://prf.hn/l/3Y32QvV Sign up to TrueFire today: https://prf.hn/l/MDmJ5bB Save 30% on anything at TrueFire with promo code "TONEUP30" Hey everyone! We are really pleased to be able to share the great news that TrueFire – the most excellent, expansive and extensive online lessons platform – have decided to sponsor our podcast until Christmas. Their product is so well thought out and educational that Dan and I are confident that you will...

Duration:00:53:00

Guitar lesson on improvising with emotion, creativity, rhythm to tell a story

10/19/2022
Dan always has such brilliant nuggets of information to share with us and this episode holds some immensely valuable and powerful thoughts and ideas. After a brief recap we have a round of improvisation which leads our discussion to pickup choice and tonal differentiation. Dan shares some ideas about how you can gain different sounds with your technique and touch. Then we discuss rhythmic motifs and grouping notes to gain interest and be more sensitive to what the track is doing. This leads...

Duration:00:43:31

Guitar lesson on adding the 6th and the 9th to the pentatonic scale

10/1/2022
It’s really brilliant to be back and we are loving recording and releasing new content for you, our wonderful listeners. This lesson is an extension of the previous one and we aim to continue this into another lesson next time with a focus on the style and techniques that you might use to deliver your lines and package your improvisation. This lesson tackles adding the 6th and 9th intervals without huge amounts of theory but, hopefully, immediately usable ideas and a rationale that will help...

Duration:00:38:03

Guitar lesson on opening up the pentatonic scale

9/18/2022
We’re back!! Thank you for sticking with us and waiting patiently, or indeed finding us for the first time. Please look back at our back catalogue and subscribe to our podcast on whatever platform you listen to podcasts on. Tell all your guitar playing friends and perhaps even get directly in touch with us or leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us more than anything else. In this lesson, Dan and I return to look at the Pentatonic scale and how it can be used over a Blues major...

Duration:00:38:01

Guitar lesson on harmonies and how best to use them

4/24/2020
In this lesson, Dan and I return with an audio only lesson but a really useful lesson on harmonizing guitar parts. In this lesson: Dan defines what it means to harmonize guitar parts, we examine how this is different to pitch shifting when working in a key, we play the C major scale with harmony parts in 2nds, 3rds, 4ths and so on, we harmonize the theme tune for Eastenders (PAAAAT!!) and we try to harmonize a lick with bends in it (I struggle with bending over another part). The lesson ends...

Duration:01:07:10

Video Guitar Lesson 18b: Which pedals are most useful and what do they all do?

2/16/2020
THE TWO VIDEOS FOR THIS ONE WOULD BE HELPFUL: https://youtu.be/K7N1TxJm17k https://youtu.be/BSAEidhkFcU In this lesson, Dan talks pedals and pedalboards. We take a tour round his board and a small tour round mine too. Then we examine the question (from the perspective of a beginner) of what pedal someone could start out with. Dan also gives his wisdom on some ways which you can keep in mind the big picture (perhaps of a pedalboard) and get the pedals which are the most useful. There’s a...

Duration:01:33:55

Video Guitar Lesson 18a - Rundown And Overview Of Our Pedalboards

2/15/2020
THE TWO VIDEOS FOR THIS ONE WOULD BE HELPFUL: https://youtu.be/K7N1TxJm17k https://youtu.be/BSAEidhkFcU This is the preamble for lesson 18, in which Dan and I take the viewer through our pedalboards, briefly describing what the pedal does and how we put together our pedalboard. See lesson 18b for the full lesson

Duration:00:17:48

Video Guitar Lesson 17, part 2: Solo Acoustic Ideas - Using A Looper Pedal

9/2/2019
In this lesson, Dan helps me out with my acoustic sound for a performance I have been asked to do for my sister-in-law’s wedding. I am performing several songs at the front of their service some of which they have chosen and some of which they have asked me to come up with. As there is a delay on publishing our episodes, this comes after I have actually done the performance and it went very well, particularly because of Dan’s excellent advice and suggestion to use a looper pedal which I...

Duration:01:13:10

Video Guitar Lesson 16, part 1: Ideas for an effective solo acoustic performance

8/19/2019
In this lesson, Dan helps me out with some planning for a performance I have been asked to do for my sister-in-law’s wedding. I am performing several songs at the front of their service some of which they have chosen and some of which they have asked me to come up with. As there is a delay on publishing our episodes, this comes after I have actually done the performance and it went very well, particularly because of Dan’s excellent advice and suggestion to use a looper pedal which I...

Duration:00:46:21

Video Guitar Lesson 15: Tips For Transcribing, Arranging & Figuring Out Solos By Actively Listening

8/7/2019
In this lesson, Dan and I take a look at the outro solo for "Feel Like Makin' Love" by Bad Company - a song which I am covering with my band. During the lesson we go through 9 tips on transcribing from Dan and we look at 9 licks from the solo. Dan shares his ideas with me on tone and effects for songs and also the different ways to approach different sorts of solos. Timings for Video Guitar Lesson 15 - on transcribing: 00:03:18 Boss RC30 Loopstation - I talk about various features on it...

Duration:01:11:51

Video Guitar Lesson 14: Dual Guitar Parts And Ideas For Soloing In A Covers Band

7/16/2019
In this lesson, Dan and I take a look at some of the songs which I am performing with my band and so we focus on the dual guitar parts. I bring several songs which I am learning with other musicians in our covers band ready for a gig we will be performing in Brighton. We first look at American Girl by Tom Petty, with some talk about inversions and effects. Secondly, Dan gives me some feedback on some dual parts I came up with for Neil Young’s Cinnamon Girl. Next we pay the Smith’s What...

Duration:01:15:15

Video Guitar Lesson 13: Tips On Improvising Solos Using Themes, Ideas And Digging Deep

6/3/2019
In this lesson, Dan and I return to take a look at how to improve your creative improvisations and what that journey looks like on the guitar. The focus of this lesson, using a backing track we recently did another lesson with, is how having some predetermined themes to use in your solo and a plan can help you to come up with ideas and interest as you improvise. As we play around with improvisation Dan gives me some tips and a strategy following a structured approach to coming up with ideas....

Duration:01:15:04

Video Guitar Lesson 12: Arranging parts for bands and situations with two or more guitarists

5/21/2019
Video Guitar Lesson 12: Arranging parts for bands and situations with two or more guitarists In this lesson, Dan and I continue to explore rhythmic patterns, looking in particular at the benefits and problems which arise when playing in situations with multiple guitarists. The focus for the lesson are two songs which I am arranging to play with a band that has in it a drummer, bassist, keyboardist/singer and me and another student of Dan’s on guitar. The two songs are ‘The One I Love’ by REM...

Duration:01:09:54