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Ladies and Gentlemen, there is nothing more embarrasing than standing in front of a festival audience of 100 thousand people, going for the mega solo and ……..ping! Your plectrum jumps out of your fingers into the 3rd dimension. Where else would it be? You look down and it’s nowhere to be seen. And you look for your roadie (sorry, I meant guitar technician) and he’s busy taking down the email address of a beautiful blonde.
So what is the solution? (more…)
Over the years, a lot of people have asked me about my Blade guitar. It’s a black Levinson Blade R3. One of the first ones that came into the UK. I’ve used it on hundreds of gigs and recording sessions.
I don’t like changing guitars through a live performance. My old Blade guitar gives me lots of different sounds at the flick of a switch. Apart from the 3 pickups (2 standard Levinson single coils plus a Seymour Duncan Hot Rail), there’s an onboard pre-amp with different settings. So I can flick a switch to get an acoustic guitar sound, then flick it the other way to get brilliant overdrive. And it plays beautifully! Gary Levinson is an American living in Switzerland where he constructs his growing range of guitars. Check out Blade guitars here. I’d love to know what you play and why you chose that guitar.
Can you remember what it was that inspired you to start playing guitar? Was it something you heard on CD or YouTube? Did you see a great guitarist in full flow and say to yourself , “That’s what I want to do”?
A great inspirational moment for me was quite recent. I saw Tinariwen play at a festival. They are Tuareg musicians from North Africa.
The guitar playing was very simple. No big show off solos. Everything the guitarists did was stripped down to bare minimum. And I know that has had an impact on my playing.
And if you want to know which guitarist I most wanted to play like when I was starting off….it was the great Peter Green.
Peter Green with his Gold Top Les Paul.
So what about you? Who inspired you?
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This course is for absolute beginners and will prepare them for more advanced techniques. You will learn some basic skills and you will learn to play some simple tunes and chords. But you will need to practice to get things right!
And don't forget, playing guitar is a FUN thing to do.
Building on the first beginner course, we take a look at some more playing techniques. And we will be learning some new chords and scales. Coming soon!
If you an aspiring singer/songwriter, this is a good place to start. Basic plectrum and finger style techniques for folk and country music.
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Course 1: Absolute Beginner Guitar
Course 2: Beginner Guitar Plus
Course 6: Folk and Country Guitar
This course is for absolute beginners and will prepare them for more advanced techniques. You will learn some basic skills and you will learn to play some simple tunes and chords. But you will need to practice to get things right!
And don't forget, playing guitar is a FUN thing to do.
Featured Courses
Course 1: Absolute Beginner Guitar
You’ve come to the right place!! Do you want learn to play guitar from scratch or improve your existing skills? Maybe you’d like to have a go at some new styles of playing. Billi will teach you. I intend to create 10 teaching courses for players of different abilities, from absolute beginner to advanced level. I’ll also be putting up specialist courses in folk and blues etc. Each course will consist of 10 lessons, with course material you can download and a quiz to see just how much you’ve learned!.
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