Ideas about Guitar, Music & Life

Best wishes to everyone! And thanks for stopping by Guitar Kitchen!

Best wishes for everyone in 2024!

Favorites

Some lessons that folks check out a lot.

• How to Play Salsa Guitar!
• Playing Tumbao and Montunos Together, Fingerstyle Salsa Guitar Studies/Lessons
• Rumba Flamenca (How to Play Basic Strumming Patterns, Groove, Chords)
• Learn Reggae Guitar (Rhythm, Chords, Scales, History, Songs)
• Learning Second Line (for Guitarists)!
• Learning to Play Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana

Guitar Courses/Lesson Series

• How to Play Jazz Guitar (22 Beginner Lessons)
• Beginner’s Course
• Learn to Read Music on Guitar

New Ideas + Lessons

Feb/March 2022!

• Podcast 12 – Amps for Busking!
• Podcast #11 – Feeling the Pulse!
• Four Minute Podcast (#10) – Finding Time to Practice!

January 2022!

• Guitar Kitchen Podcasts
• Podcast 8 – Ideas for Musicians & Best Wishes for 2022!
• Fall/Winter 2021 Jam ‘EP’ Album
• 2022 Multi-Instrumental Jams!

August 2021

• How to Start Learning Jazz Blues in F (Guitar Chords)
• Back To Eden/ Wood Chip Gardening (My Beginner Experiences)

April 2021

• 12 Ways to Create and Earn (for Musicians & Guitarists) – Podcast

March 2021?

I basically ended up taking March off, at least in terms of writing, but did end up practicing some!

February 2021

• Drumming (& Multi-Instrumentalism) for Guitarists (Podcast #4)
• 3 Great Ways to Start Improvising in a Classic Jazz Style (Podcast #2)
• Learning Jazz Guitar – Tips & Ideas – Podcast #1

January 2021!

• How Bulería Compás relates to Bach, Latin Jazz, Swing & 6/8!
• Improve Jazz Guitar Groove (Right Hand Swing/Triplet Etude)
• Keep Your Jazz Improv Simple & Smile (Beginner Ideas)
• Jazz Chord Substitutions, Turnarounds + Extensions
• 4+ Great iOs/iPhone Apps for Practicing Music!

December 2020!

• Learning Jazz Guitar FAQ!
• Melodic Minor Scales (Shapes, Patterns, Theory)

Here’s some ideas, lessons and music that I added in October and November 2020!

• Learning to Groove with the New Birth Brass Band!
• Tumbao & Montuno – D minor/A7 (for Salsa Guitar)
• Great Tunes and Albums (for Learning about Jazz Guitar)
• Chill Flamenco Guitar Warmup (Right/Strum Hand)

Classical Music

• Kreutzer Violin C major Etude #2 (and Modulations Variations)
• D minor Gigue, Partita II, JS Bach, Solo Violin BMV 1004
• B minor Double (Sarabande), Violin Partita #1 (BMV 1002)
• Vivaldi Winter, Largo (Arrangements for Classical Guitar & Violin)

Musicality

• The Glass is Always Full (Realism vs Optimism vs Pessimism)
• Lead with Heart! Verbal Cues to Improve (Guitar) Posture
• Singing – What You May Learn as a Guitarist!
• Better Groove – Six Fun Practice Ideas!
• Five 5-10 Minute Practice Ideas
• Make your Own Backing Track (5 Minute Practice Ideas)
• Musicality: Nature, Nurture & 10,000 hours?
• Learning Multiple Instruments for Enjoyment and Musicality

Ideas

• Kindness in Learning Music
• Music, Busking, Freedom of Art/Speech & USA 1st Amendment
• Practicing Gratefulness (as a musician)

Jazz Guitar!

• E flat Blues (100 bpm) Acoustic Jazz Guitar Backing Track
• Eb Jazz Blues Backing Track (bpm 144)
• Fly Me to the Moon (Chord Chart, Scales & Arpeggios in C Major)

Recent Updates

I added some cool new full fretboard diagrams for pentatonic scales!

• Minor Pentatonics (6 Fretboard Diagrams for Guitar and Full Moveable Chart)
• Minor Pentatonics (6 Fretboard Diagrams for Guitar and Full Moveable Chart)
• Major Scale Fretboard Diagrams for Guitar

Recordings

• Tres Rios Reggae
• Chill Latin Guitar Video
• Chill Acoustic Guitar Hip Hop Track
• New Chill Reggae Track | Summer Fall 2018 | Reggae Jazz Guitar
• Mazouk for Beach Dreamers (Recording)
• Playing classical music on steel string guitar
• New live recording – 2 acoustic guitars
• Live Recording – Viola, Guitar and Percussion – Romski Cocek

Beginner’s Tips

Here’s some ideas that may help you – I try to remember them myself!

From the beginner’s guitar course:

• keep your hands relaxed
• keep your guitar in tune
• play in time, with the rhythm
• musicality always beats technicality
• practice too slow instead of too fast
• play along to records whenever you can
• play with other people whenever you can

En Español

• ¡REGGAE!
• El tumbao y el montuno
• La guitarra y la salsa

Practice Makes Progress!

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