Guitar Lessons | The Punch-In

Guitar Lessons | The Punch-In

some random free lessons from TrueFire

Plug In Baby Intro

Cool intro to the song Plug In Baby by Muse. The only tricky part is the arpeggio in bar 5 where I've noted the fingering and picking.

Steve Vai's Freakshow Excess

Here's a cool 7/8 riff from Steve Vai's tune "Freakshow Excess"

You can see Steve demo this at 8:29 in the video below:

My next guitar?

I think my next guitar is going to be Reverend's Pete Anderson Signature:




Reviews have been great and the price is right. Only problem is that they're hard to find.

The other alternative is Peerless Guitars which seem only to be available in the US through GUITARS-N-JAZZ.

Found another souce: Archtop Jazz Guitars (NJ)

Lesson Notes from 4/21/2010

Still working on Blue Bossa (adding melody to chords). Also picked up a couple of random neat things:

A cool diminished-sounding lick:



Also a standard jazz chord progression (I-VI-II-V)

G Diminished Scale and other things

Notes from previous lessons that I want to hang onto.

G Diminished 4-note-per-string:

Diatonic 7 chords in Cmajor with arpeggios:

Version 1:

Version 2:

Version 3:

Version 4:

Blue Bossa

The first jazz piece that I'm working on. Sheet music courtesy of wikifonia. A nice intro lesson to this can be found here: