Welcome
to the Guitar Lessons page of Skinny Devil Music Lab. These free lessons
are written by award-winning guitarist & instructor David M. McLean.
Soon, we will be able to converse so that I might better guide you on your
journey through the Music Lab, but for now enjoy the free lessons...and
be sure to visit other areas of David's site - from the Guitar
Gods interview series to the Sonic
Gallery.
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is proud to present:
.......
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2005) interview with David (discussing gear, writing, performing,
etc.) HERE!
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the CD "AN ALIEN
BLUE"!
David
live, summer 2006.
David
teaching GTR-4 class, 2008.
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Guitar Lessons
Quick word: The non-profit segment
of my teaching biz (via the YMCA) is now being sponsored by Gibson Guitar's
Gibson
Foundation, who sent us a wad of cash and 10 guitars to
help with programming, outreach initiatives, promotion, and the like. Thanx,
Gibson!
If you are in Lexington (or
central KY) and want to look into lessons with me or one of my certified
instructors (private, group, or via clinics & workshops), you can contact
me directly HERE
(or at 859.420.2007) or visit our new
GUITAR
INSTRUCTOR page. If you are not in the Lexington, Kentucky area
and need a qualified instructor in your area and can't find an SDML certified
instructor on the above "instructor" page, visit Music
Staff or Teach
List .....OR you can
contact
me for personalized on-line instruction (this works for those with odd
schedules, or living in an area with high local lesson rates, or who are
interested in a specialized area of study in which I presumably excel).
If you are one of my students
and need to get to the private student page, just contact me for the address....if
you're trying to purchase my duo's debut CD, you can get it on-line:
Below you'll find access
to various FREE on-line guitar lessons.
In addition, visit the "merchandise" section for new information, including
my forth-coming lesson book, DVD series, player awards, teacher & player
certificates, "how to build a business teaching guitar" booklettes, and
more.
Guitar
Trader & Music Power
Trek over to either MusicPower.Com
or GuitarTrader.Com
and you'll not only see re-prionts of many of the lessons available below,
but also the "Run of the Month" series, which are short lessons that take
a very brief look at a lick or riff or run or song structure of many fabulous
players.
Insane Guitar
Lesson Index
I have the pleasure of being
a columnist for several guitar web-sites, including the award-winning instructional
site "Insane Guitar", which offers monthly columns, master classes, jam
trax, song tabs/notation, artist profiles & interviews, column archives,
and more. I've written a quasi-monthly column, "Insanity
101", for IG since March of 2002, and have covered a wide array
of topics and player styles.
Insane
Guitar Index
Beginner
Guitarist
This
lesson is not intended to replace a qualified instructor, but to familiarize
novices with the instrument and some basic concepts. Use this as a primer
before beginning formal lessons or as a supplement to your formal lessons.
Beginner
Guitar
Player Style
Lessons
I'm currently writing an
on-going series of player styles for rock guitarists Steve Stevens (of
Billy Idol fame) and Jimi Hendrix, as well as (by reader requests) general
style lessons on other great players.
* Jimi
Hendrix series
* Steve
Stevens series
*
Jennifer
Batten Style
*
Jeff
Beck Style (coming soon)
* Ritchie
Blackmore (coming soon)
* Greg
Howe Style
* George
Lynch Style
*
Prince
Style
* Randy
Rhoads Style
*
Katherine
Thomas a.k.a. The Great Kat
* Steve
Vai Style
* Angus
Young Style (at Guitar-Trader)
*
New
Acoustic Concepts (Justin King, Preston Reed, Michael Hedges...)
* New
Acoustic Concepts 2 (Paco de Lucia,
Van Halen, POM...)
Guitar
Clinics
I was fortunate
enough to hook up with incredible players Philip High & Jerry Belsak
in 2003/2004 for a series of performance clinics where we discussed technique,
acoustic & electric approaches, effects, and the like. Below is the
clinic literature.
* Guitar
Circle Clinic
Zen
Guitar
I wrote several pieces for
Phil Sudo's "Zen
Guitar" following an interview with Phil prior to his untimely death
in June 2002. These are ideas presented primarily (though not exclusively)
to my more advanced students over the years, typically with very positive
results.
Zen
One
Zen
Two
Zen
Three
Resources
Several resources available
(they get the Skinny Devil Stamp of Approval!) are the trainers at Ricci
Adams'
MusicTheory
Net, the music
games at Rob Tougher's site, a great article on chord
theory by David Hamburger at Acoustic Guitar Magazine, and ANY books,
CDs, DVDs, or on-line lessons by Troy
Stetina (who has authored over 30 books for Hal Leonard!).
Also, my thanx to Steve at
Guitar-Guitar
& GuitarTrader,
Rich at MoneyChords,
Dave at 8notes.Com,
and Alex at The
Fusionsite for posting my lessons, and to Ben at The
Shred Academy. For more free lessons (as well as gear info, shops,
and more), visit the Skinny Devil Guitar
Resources page.
Et
Cetera
Earn the Skinny Devil Music
Lab "Award for Guitar Excellence". The
FREE
web-certificate is self-awarded by meeting all the criteria, which is outlined
here.
Coming soon is the SDML
player & teacher "Certificate of Guitar Excellence" (I
will certify each applicant personally), which will be awarded based on
a written knowledge test and a recorded skills test. See
"merchandise" for details!
 .............
Soon at Skinny Devil Music
Labs, you will be able to access articles from "Sonic
Dance and Secret Weapons (a study of the motives and methods in human music)"
- which cover both harmonic and rhythmic consepts - and essays (like "The
Art of Scalar Magic") as well as download a copy of, "Complete
Book of Scales" (by me and W. Siddiqui)...all free of charge.
Finally, technical study
is only part of one's development as a guitarist. Self-analysis via recording,
performing, listening to the methods of other players, and more all assist
in one's continuing improvement. In that spirit, be sure to read the "Guitar
Gods" interview series.
These projects
are offered
FREE of charge as are many projects
from Skinny Devil Music Lab. Please consider leaving a small tip to help
support all past & future projects here. Thanx!
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