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Beasty – D minor jam track 3/4
Perfect for D minor pentatonic and D blues scales and phrases.
Great for improvising slow blues/rock lead and building licks and runs and perfecting bends, vibrato and hammer ons/pull offs.
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Romantika – Free D minor Jam Track
Perfect for D minor pentatonic and D blues scales and phrases.
Great for improvising slow blues/rock lead and building licks and runs and perfecting bends, vibrato and hamme ons/pull offs.
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D minor jam track – Rock 106 – with video lesson
Rock 106 – D minor
Perfect for D minor pentatonic and D blues scales and phrases.
Great for improvising slow blues/rock lead and building licks and runs and perfecting bends, vibrato and hamme ons/pull offs.
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Four A minor backing tracks uploaded free to download at www.free4allbackingtracks.com
Quick n dirty recordings of simple chord progressions looped for up to 4 minutes in length.
Perfect for honing lead guitar chops, runs phrases and licks.
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Marshall JH-1 ‘The jackhammer’ – Review and Test.
The Jackhammer is a funny pedal, the controls are fiddly and the Distortion is hopeless but the overdrive is very usable indeed.
I picked mine up on ebay for a very good price. Therefore this review and test is based on the price I paid which was under £20.
Like I said the controls are fiddly, the contour and freq control are really hard to seperate so when you turn the Contour knob the Freq knob turns also.
The Distortion is terrible, I A/B’d it with a few other distortions I have and no matter how much fiddling I did it just didn’t come anywhere near to what I wanted.
That said the Overdrive is better than I expected especially when you take the dismal Distortion into account.
It’s got a very AC/DC vibe about it, it allows you to get some really crunchy sounds and sounds excellent on open chords with the right settings.
Getting the settings is the problem, too many knobs in a very small space and they’re stacked.
The Gain knob is onto of the Volume Knob, the Treble sits on the Bass Knob and the Freq sits above the the Contour.
After some messing I managed to get a sound that suited my Fender Champion and then just used the Gain to dial in more overdrive and it works very nicely.
I have a few different distortions and usually find a good setting and leave them using the guitars volume and tones to alter the sound.
If you’re looking for a distortion/overdrive you can dial different sounds in then it may be an idea to look elsewhere.
If you’re looking for a very usable Overdrive and are willing to fiddle with it then this maybe the pedal for you.
Check out the video below, it’s recorded using a Fender Champion, Fender Telecaster with the toggle switch on the bridge pickup and it’s been recorded using a T-Bone MB75 and not an SM57 as stated in the video.
Sound: 7/10 for the overdrive 2/10 for the distortion
Usability: Too twiddly and trying to do too much on a small box, 4/10
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Getting your fingers to untwist themselves can be a frustrating process.
Practice is king – for the exercise we’re going to use the ‘G’ string as our basis and the notes from the A minor(natural) scale have been used – this will hopefully give us a few things,
- Learn how to use our fingers properly.
- Learn the notes on the ‘G’ string.
- Get used to moving up and down the neck in a none scalic way.
- Build up stretch in our fingers.
First thing we need to do is get used to the pattern – try the exercise below – the finger to use is written above the corresponding note – to get to grips with this you need to start slow and concentrate on getting your fingers right.
You will see that the first note of each bar is played with the 1st finger and the last note is played with the 4th finger.
The middle note is the trickier part, this note is indicated in blue it’s important that you get this finger correct as it will allow a smoother way of playing – it may be awkward but stick with it and you’ll see an improvement.
Remember,
- Play slowly to start
- Use Alternate picking
Once you’ve mastered the exercise try playing whilst learning the notes.
Notes have been added below for each bar.
Learning the notes on the guitar is one of the most important skills you can aquire.
Hope it helps!