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Learn How To Play With Two Guitars (Pt 1 – Alternate Chord Voicings)

Ever had a jam partner, and wanted play something different, unique and cool sounding, but you were just stumped for ideas? Never fear, the Riff Ninjas are here! We’ve got plenty of tricks up our sleeve to help you create awesome sounding two-guitar jams, and in this lesson we’re going to start digging into a few of those. In Part 1 of this series we’re going to look at using some alternate chord voicings.

Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

Bass & Guitar: Taking the 12 Bar Further

This is the second lesson in our series on jamming with the bass and guitar.

Please make sure you’ve first gone through lesson 1 in this series.

On the bass you’ll review the major scale, as well as learn some more tips on walking the bass with a 12 bar progression.

On the guitar, you’ll learn a couple new chords that sound great in 12 bar progressions, and also more from the jamming front.

Beginner’s Bass AND Guitar

This is the first lesson that Colin and Jonathan have paired up on, so let us know what you think about it!

This lesson is for both guitar players AND bass players. Having an understanding of the other instrument will really help you out as a player, and will give you a better understanding of how your own playing relates to the rest of the bad.

We’ll teach you a simple progression and give you some tools that you can use to jam with others over the progression.

How To Use A Capo

Here’s a lesson that covers how to use a capo. The type of capo that Colin showed in the lesson is actually one of the cheaper ones available, you can click here to find them on Amazon for about four bucks.