Nate's Hot-Rod-Guitar Shop!
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Nate’s Hot-Rod-Guitar Shop!
Welcome to my hot-rod-guitar shop - and, welcome to the home of something I refer to as the ‘hot rod guitar sound’. It’s a combination of rockabilly, bluegrass, jazz, blues, and more [especially country & rock].
Check out the following video - and, notice, in each example, that I am playing ‘’the same line’ and ‘the same key’ over various grooves and tempos for the sake of comparison.
I developed this approach to serve more than one purpose. With that said, here are three encouraging points that stand out:
1) The ‘rules’ for how to get this sound are very simple
2) Learning and practicing simplified material like this is a lot of fun
And, 3) Learning and practicing simplified material like this helps to build an excellent set of skills / musical foundation needed for playing, and understanding, a great variety of music styles.
Plus: As a bonus, this hot rod guitar approach is especially great for players who need a bit of help ‘keeping it going’ with faster tempos and with funky, swampy and half-time grooves!
Plus, Plus: One of the reasons I developed this approach was to have access to guitar fills and guitar solos that can be played with or without accompaniment. Check out the following video for an example:
The hot rod guitar sound sits somewhere in the middle of rockabilly, bluegrass, jazz, blues, and more [especially country & rock] and is school, all by itself, for how to break away from the pentatonic scale. In this way, not only is it a lot of fun to play, but it’s also a very wise study for beginner guitar players who are looking to build an excellent functional musical foundation!
I specialize in helping beginner guitarists build their musical foundations and in helping intermediate level guitarists get up to the next level!
With today’s easy to use technology, virtual lessons provide a very convenient and effective way for us to enjoy working to achieve your musical goals! Give me a ring, or an email!
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