Music and nature of two of my favorite things. So for this page, put your guitar down for a few minutes and enjoy some of my favorite nature videos and photos.

Here is a video of me feeding my pet humming bird.The first part shows me feeding him with the bird feeder on my lap. The second part shows me feeding him while I am holding the bird feeder.

Click on the arrow in the image to view the hummingbird video:

Image of horseback riders as they water their horses in a secluded sunny bay at this beautiful Kentucky lake:

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Watch this video of your GuitarMore instructor trying to hold onto a baby Garter Snake.

Click on the arrow in the image below to view the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHqWOHwXsiQ

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Watch these bullfrogs in the author’s back yard pond chasing a fishing bobber.

Click on the arrow in the image below to view the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlhGaSyHQok

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrDOZuNLdLI

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD9eY9poOgE

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It is mating season for the Monarch butterflies. They were oblivious to my close up camera and to me placing one hand near them. They hung together from the pine tree branch, motionless except for when a sweat bee landed on the wing of one butterfly. With a quck flap of the butterfly’s wing, the sweat bee was gone and the monarchs resumed their stillness and attention to each other.

Image of Monarch Butterflies Mating in a Pine Tree:

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Image of a Cow with a horn growing into his head GuitarMore.com

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Image of a Fisherman & GuitarMore instructor kissing a bluegill fish GuitarMore.com

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Image of Bullfrog Close Up View GuitarMore.com

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Image of Old Train Caboose:

This old Train Caboose is located in a field in central Kentucky.

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Image of Old Abandoned Farm House (Guitarmore.com)

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Image of Giant Jesus Statue Holding The Sun In His Hand

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Image of Dog patiently waiting in the car while his owners ate breakfast at Mcdonalds restaurant:

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The image below shows a wild hawk as he stares at me while I’m watching him through my back window:

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Image Number 2 of cow with a horn growing into his head

This solo break that can be played over a G-C-D chord progression. Click on the arrow in the image below to view the video:

G-C-D Lick:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMCTFUYqjDM

Image of Tab of Bluegrass Licks G C G:

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********************************************************************************************************************************************* Return to TOP OF PAGE   ************************************************************************************************************* G Lick Number 5: Click on the arrow in the image below to view the video:  ************************************************************************************************************  D Lick Number 4: Click on the arrow in the image below to view the video:       D Lick Number 3: Click on the arrow in the image below to view the video:     **************************************************************************************************************** D Lick Number 2: Click on the arrow in the image below to view the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IhgDdHWhvo

********************************************************************************************************************************************** A solo break using licks that can be played over an A-G-A chord progression. Click on the arrow in the image to view the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOIggh6EweE

Image of Tab of Bluegrass Lick A-G-A: ***********************************************************************************************************************************************   Click on the arrow in the image below to view Bluegrass Guitar G Lick Number 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJKYX8g1Uw

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mz5c_iQrQ

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Click on the arrow in the image below to view Bluegrass Guitar G Lick Number 4, which is played over a G to D to G chord progression:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZG-OnI6UTE

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Click on the arrow in the image below to view Bluegrass Guitar D Lick Number 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKE8-tKbxjI

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Click on the arrow in the image below to watch the traditional bluegrass song, “June Apple”, played with a Martin D28 along with a track laid down with a JamMan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-HlcEPd230

Here are the fingerings for the chords used in the June Apple video: (“A” chord, “G” chord & “D” chord)… I use the alternate fingering shown for the G chord in this song. ********************************************************************************************************************************************************

To play the guitar, you only need to know how to do three things:

1) How to play a note

2) When to play the note

3) What note to play.

It sounds too simple, but that’s all there is to it when analyzed in its most basic essence. Watch each video lesson, read the lesson text and learn the chording diagrams and you will quickly learn how to play the guitar.

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Go To Lesson Number 1

Watch the video after Jazz Lick Number 3 to hear an original jazz chord solo.

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Jazz Lick Number 1:

Click on the arrow in the video below to view a D minor arpeggio played in two octaves in the fifth position.

The minor arpeggio is defined as a series of three consecutive notes being with the first, the flatted third and the fifth note of the major scale.

The flatted third in the D minor arpeggio is the F natural, since the F is sharped (raised one fret) in the natural D scale. (The key of D has two sharps: F sharp and C sharp).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7F24HoOcA8

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The name of the arpeggio is determined by the name of the first note of the arpeggio and the type of arpeggio that it is. (like minor, minor 7th, major, etc.)

In our example, the first note is “D”. The first note is also known as the “root” note.

The two arpeggio patterns shown are movable on the neck to form arpeggios with different roots as discussed below.

The first pattern shown has its root on the third string, fitfh fret, which is the note “D”.

Move the pattern up the neck one fret and you are now playing a D sharp arpeggio.

Move it up another fret and you are playing an arpeggio with “E” as the root note. (Which could be played along with an E minor chord).

The second pattern shown has its root on the fifth fret of the fifth string, which is the note “D” and so it is a “D” arpeggio.

Move this pattern up the neck one fret and you are playing a D sharp arpeggio.

There are other arpeggio patterns that have their roots on strings other than the third and fifth strings as shown in the video.

By knowing several arpeggio patterns with roots on different strings you can play consecutive arpeggios in different keys without moving your hands too far of a distance up or down the fretboard.

You can learn to play the minor arpeggio elswhere on the neck, with roots on other strings, by remembering its formula (I, Flat III, V) and the names of the notes on the fret board.

The D minor bar chord shown in the video is also a movable chord, that can be played on different frets, to play a minor chord in keys other than the D. (The root of this chord is also on the fifth string, fifth fret).

The movable finger patterns and chords learned in positions higher than the first position on the neck allow you to play in many keys by using the same basic finger patterns.

Jazz Lick Number 2:

Click on the arrow in the image nelow to view Jazz lick number 2: A two octave G7 aprpeggio (I, III, V, flatted VII) for the beginning jazz guitarist.

This arpeggio, played on the third position on the neck, can be used as a building block for jazz melody improvisation.

The chord is movable on the other frets to play different major seven chords having their root notes on the sixth string.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xk8eamfWHk

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Jazz Lick Numbers 1 & 2 Combined:

Click on the arrow in the image below to view how Jazz licks number 1 and 2 to can be played together and used as the basis for improvising jazz melodies over this chord progression.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEU1XZKigto

Jazz Lick Number 3:

Click on the arrow in the video below to view Jazz Lick Number 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbUh6FqHUBo

Please visit again soon for more jazz licks!

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Click on the arrow in the image below to watch this easy listening, easy to learn original guitar jazz song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esemgJh-Y4w

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To some guitarists, jazz is thought of as the combination of harmonized chord scales, played with arpeggios, modal scales, intervals, motifs with counterpoint.

But sometimes we make things sound more technical and difficult sounding than they really are.

If you can count to 12, the GuitarMore system will have you, the beginner, just starting out on the guitar, playing jazz guitar sooner than you would imagine, even before you know the technical definition of all of these words.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL3HFB1V1pg

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