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5 Killer Rockabilly Intro Licks you just gotta learn, not only if you want to play rockabilly styles, but for a little bit of cool guitar history! Checkout my youtube channel for more lessons like this!… More…
Here’s a soul-jazz solo I discovered by a guitarist who’s unfortunately uncredited on the recording. It’s from the 1967 album “Honky Tonk Organ” by Bill Doggett. It might be Billy Butler, but that’s just… More…
Classic Django-y ideas over G minor blues. More…
Big news for Django fans: a new live recording was unearthed and shared online. It’s Django playing with the ATC Band on Dec. 16, 1945. Here’s the full transcription of all six choruses by Django over… More…
Here’s a beautiful intro by Antoine from the first track of his album “Sita.” More…
I just discovered this great fingerstyle tune from Chet Atkins’ 1968 album Solo Flights and written by Jerry Reed. Such a tasty, bluesy melody! More…
Sean posted this exercise on Instagram yesterday (https://www.instagram.com/p/BoX8_NCl8LO/), saying "it's the best guitar exercise I know," so I had to Soundslice it. It's a chromatic scale in octaves,… More…
I’ve been playing around with making exercises based on a simple scale, where I take a chord voicing I like and increment each of its notes by a scale step. It can reveal some beautiful new voicings! Here’s… More…
Man, this intro. I’ve never come across most of these voicings before. From the 1958 Julie London album “Julie Is Her Name, Vol. 2.” More…
Adrien and Benoit! This transcription was done by Denis Chang; I merely added the rhythmic values and Soundsliced it. More…
From the classic recording of “Cry Me A River” by Julie London. 1955. More…
I made this one up to practice lots of consecutive downstrokes. The time feel of it is really odd, despite it being in 4/4! More…
The diminished color in this intro is classic Django! More…
Sounds so complicated, but it falls nicely under the fingers. Olli plays a Bb lick over the F7. From “Anniversary Song” on the Hot Club D'Europe album “Kouvola Junction.” More…
It’s about time somebody did an acoustic contribution to Mark Lettieri’s Gruvskool Challenge... :-) This was actually quite tricky for me to learn, as I never play this kind of style/feel. More…
Super-swinging playing! By pianist Eddie Costa on the tune “Walking” on the Barry Galbraith album “Guitar and the Wind,” from 1958. I’ve transcribed only the piano melody, not the left hand rhythm. At… More…
Catchy fingerstyle piece! Need to learn this one. More…
Really nice ideas here from Remi. More…
I’m always looking for new ideas over this particular chord progression; here’s a nice one from Angelo. From Samois 2011. More…
Some nice weird substitutions over a vanilla chord progression from Adrien. More…
In my quest to transcribe everything by Mr. Moignard, I found this deep cut and duly transcribed it. ;-) Who’s gonna do the first Soundslice cover?! More…
What a beautiful intro played by Julian. From Ben Powell’s 2012 album “New Street.” More…
Here’s an excellent chord etude Angelo showed at Django In June 2018, which took place last week in Northampton, MA. If you don’t know Django In June, mark your calendar for next year — I highly recommend… More…
Django did a lot of this kind of thing. I was playing around trying to see how far I could take it. More…
I developed this exercise to help with legato and finger dexterity. It kind of doubles as an “outside” lick, though I have yet to use it in the wild... More…
Lovely turnaround from George’s 1967 recording of “Satin Doll” on the album Seven-String Guitar. Note I’ve transcribed it for a six-string guitar. More…
The greatest Italian hit of 1968 that went on to become Adriano Celentano's business card. Widely known around the world to this day, with numerous covers in a variety of languages and styles. … More…
Nice intro here from Les Paul’s recording with Bing Crosby. More…
Something about the note choice and/or timing in this break... It made me laugh. From a live version of “China Boy.” More…