Jake Estner
@JakeEstner · Guitar · Boston, MA
Guitar Lab Rat - lessons online available www.jakeestner.com/hybrid and in person in Boston, MA! Best place to hear me play is www.instagram.com/JakeEstner
Was experimenting a bit with "irrational" time signatures and trying to make something feel nice. Wound up strumming some chords that sounded like this song, so I went ahead and just made it an arrangement.… More…
He recorded the song all a capella, so it was interesting to try to represent the voices and harmonies solo guitar. I had to take certain things under a microscope and try to get creative about fingerings… More…
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Watched this movie the other day and was very curious about this rhythm. It's interesting how similar this figure is to Meshuggah's "Bleed" - also almost the exact same tempo! More…
A little high-effort goof for today's date, 4/4/2021. The "20" is really just 4 groups of 16th note quintuplets, but that's far less meme-able. I'm treating the 21 as 3 groups of 7. It's kind of like fitting… More…
Dotted 8ths and quarter note triplets are very similar in duration, so sometimes it can be tricky to play or hear the distinction. Occasionally I like to give myself or my students challenges to test… More…
I've been enjoying practicing alternate-picked arpeggios as odd note groupings, both because it's good practice for smoothing out picking weaknesses but also sometimes I wind up liking the musical result.… More…
Original pick strokes/transcription here: https://www.soundslice.com/slices/cKMcc… More…
Trying to be in the holiday spirit. Main theme from "Halloween" is the top voice, and the bass notes are basically the same pitches as the original, but I changed their rhythm: first they are occurring… More…
Technically, until you've eaten your last breakfast, any whiskey consumed is 'before breakfast.' More…
Working on my bluegrass ears. Some 'tough to hear' bits marked. A and B sections marked, and split into 4 bar phrases for ease of organization. More…
Very cool improvised moment in the middle of a medley of tunes. I have the staff notation as concert pitch (well, with the guitar in its 'guitar octave') as the guitar has the capo and the mandolin of… More…
Finally getting around to transcribing some Woody Shaw More…
Ok I know this is a very different thing to put on my channel, but I was kind of proud of this arrangement for one of my 6 year old students, and thought it was a cool demo of the capabilities of soundslice,… More…
I took a "7 over 4 in groups of 6" fingerpicking idea I posted on instagram a few weeks ago and turned it into...something, with guitar pro. But the thing I thought was fun is playing around with the idea… More…
Sometimes I find a solo arrangement works well to play with the pick, which gives some limitations and advantages compared to playing fingerstyle, main limitation being less ability to play independent… More…
Exploring reharm/arranging based on the idea of the tonic major triad on top of different bass notes with their fifth. Here the triads on 'top' are mostly limited to just G, C, and D, and fifths or fourths… More…
(Repost with a few clarifications in the notation)… More…
Not making fun...ok making fun a little bit. I think David Gilmour is great and I think this is overall a great solo, but what happened at the end here? b9 on bVImaj7, B natural on Bbmaj7 for a good two… More…
Transcribed this burning clip from an album promo by Jake Workman - I sent it to Jake and he said I had the notes mostly right but didn't get a lot of his fingerings correct in the original TAB, and some… More…
A student was asking me some questions about time signatures related to a Tool song, and it got me thinking about what really *is* a time signature, and how there can often be grey area between different… More…
Fun stuff, kids. Original tune of hers.… More…
This was one of a few different things I wrote earlier this year based on the idea of melody and harmony that repeat, but the inversions of the voicings for the harmony ascend while the melody stays the… More…
You know, some nice studio bass playing here. And an interesting vocal performance to try to put on paper. More…
Forget your neo soul licks, and Julian who? The future of guitar is in arrangements of iPhone ringtones. More…