Memories

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Acoustic

Excerpt: Hello all! In this tutorial, we'll be learning an acoustic piece called "Memories". It's a soft CMaj7, G progression that gave me the imagery of taking a "stroll through memory lane". Once you've checked out the full video above, head on over to the next page for the first exercise.

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Acoustic

Excerpt: In the first exercise, we'll be doing some picking patterns while we play through the CMaj7 and G chords. If you're new to playing picking patterns through chord progressions, make sure you practice this slowly so you can focus on developing clean technique. Especially when practicing on an acoustic, you may find that some of the notes make "buzzing" sounds...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Acoustic

Excerpt: This exercise can be played a couple different ways. The easy way would be to simply play the notes how they're indicated in the tab below. But if you want to give the pattern some extra rhythmic flavor, I'd recommend adding some subtle percussive elements to your picking. When you watch the video above, you'll notice I play it once slowly without adding an...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Acoustic

Excerpt: You'll find this exercise to be similar to the last one, but it has an added variation. If you look towards the middle of each measure, you'll see we now have some palm-muted notes on the 7th fret. The "P.M." markings above the notes indicate to play those notes while muting them with your picking hand's palm. What we talked about in the last exercise also ...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Acoustic

Excerpt: Have fun with the backing track!

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