Joedy Zapara

New Guitar Lesson Videos

Check out the new free guitar lesson videos. I recently taught an intermediate class for about 20 guitar players, and I have chopped up that 1 1/2 hour workshop into section for your edification. This stuff is raw and unscripted, but I think you’ll get a sense of the fun we had. If you have any questions about the material, or you have a request for the next run of tutorials, then shoot me an email. Enjoy.

Pivot Fingers

Learn how to move from one chord to another seamlessly.

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Scales

Learn your basic major and minor scale.

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Get Your Pick

Get that slippery pick out in one fell swope.

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Chords2

More about chords.

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Chords

Basics of chord construction.

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Know Your Limits

Play within yourself.

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Fingerpicking

Learn the basics of fingerpicking.

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Know Your Notes

Do you know the notes on the guitar neck? View this video to know more.

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Capos

Check out this video on using your capo.

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Reconciler LIVE

Listen to Reconciler LIVE

Check out this live recording of an original worship tune. I used Ableton LIVE to set the “mood” by using live dynamic looping.

C-Groove LIVE

Listen to C-Groove LIVE

This guitar only tune was recorded live using my Strat with a delay looper during a service.

D-Tune

Listen to D-Tune

This little diddy was produced totally in Garageband as my first “proof of concept.”

Who Makes The Best Acoustic Guitar

Who makes the best acoustic guitar? At times, pondering or debating this question elicits the type of responses you’d only expect to find when asking about the secret to life, love and happiness. At times, when asked, I‘ve felt like there was a predetermined answer that the asker was expecting to get from me, and that if I didn’t “test well,” I would have shattered what for some can be a fragile wall of surety around the decision they have already made, or are about to make regarding the purchase of a fine acoustic guitar. Considering what I’ve just described, I ask myself - can this conversation end positively?

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Drop string sound in E - using a capo

Learn how to get that drop low string sound in the key of E without de-tuning by using your capo.

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Fun in G

This video looks at which alternate and open chords can be used in substitution for the old standards while playing in G.

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D Chord Alternates

A guitar tutorial on how to swap out regular chords in the key of D with open ones.

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Guitar tricks in A

Check this guitar tutorial out, it looks at some of the alternate chord forms and passing chords you can use in the key of A.

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Droning in E

This tutorial looks at playing open chords with droning notes in the key of E.

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Loops in a live setting

There was one simple question that started my search. How can I migrate away from hardware samplers, and towards software based, laptop run sample triggering? Do I start with the software of my past like ACID, Sound Forge, or Vegas, now under the Sony umbrella? Do I look to pattern based synth and loop players like Reason and Logic plug-in Ultrabeat? Or how about the other power house Logic plug-in, the EXS24? What I found at the end of the rainbow wasn’t gold, it was jack squat.

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