Check out Dan from YGA HQ with some great ideas on how to spice up your soloing using notes from the chromatic scale!
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Your Guitar Academy
Your Guitar Academy is the UK’s central hub for learning guitar. We offer an online subscription-based range guitar lessons called “YGA Pro”, as well as private guitar tuition in several parts of the UK including guitar lessons London, guitar
Day Tripper Acoustic Cover
Here we have one of our YGA tutors playing through Tommy Emmanuel’s rendition of Day Tripper by The Beatles. This is a great example of the kind of things you can achieve if you focus on your acoustic guitar playing
Mastering Vibrato
TAKING YOUR VIBRATO TO THE NEXT LEVEL
For all intermediate players vibrato is a tricky subject. Great sounding vibrato can be the difference between an ok guitarist and a great one! This video and song should really help you take
Wild Thing
How To play wild thingHere we have a classic open chord riff for you all to learn! This is a great song for beginners who want to put some speed into their chord changes! If you can play along to
Elliots Song
How about this for tune! Elliot had been having lessons with us for around 2 years before recording this song. His style has developed over the years into this John Mayer / Carlos Santana type sound! This is a genuinely
Lucas Improvisation
We are really proud of young Lucas today as he is really starting to understand the art of improvisation! In this example we learnt a Slash solo, and then changed the key and improvised based around that solo. What a
Satisfaction
Here is a really cool little lesson showing you how to play Satisfaction but the Rolling Stones. There are a few subtly tricky little bits in this riff, so don’t assume it will be too easy! This is a great
Mastering Guitar Bends Guitar lesson
Here we have a quick little solo for you to learn that features pretty much all the different types of bends you’ll ever need! This is a video I did (Dan) for a cool company called Riffstation and they have
Smells Like Teen Spirit Lesson (2 of 2)
Smells Like Teen Spirit Intro
In this second lesson (of 2) we will be learning the second half of the intro to Smells like teen Spirit by Nirvana. This is an absolute classic, and is surprisingly tricky to absolutely master. …
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