GUITAR COACH MAGAZINE : GUITAR Issue 001 The FREE Guitar Magazine created exclusively for iPad ISSUE 001 Beginners Bootcamp Riffs & Licks Coaching Sessions Guitars & Gizmos FREE Skills & Techniques Tutorial Videos for Songs, Riffs, Licks & Solos Going to school with Nils Lofgren Play Clapton, Dire Straits & The Eagles Step by step video lessons Plus guitar news, features, profiles & cool new Apps. MAGAZINE Editorial enquiries: [email protected] Advertising enquiries: [email protected] www.guitarcoachmag.com PRESS and HOLD the screen here to show the top bar navigation. TAP HOME to return to Guitar Coach Magazine home page. How to use this App... SWIPE horizontally to go to the next page PRESS and HOLD the screen here to show the bottom navigation bar. SWIPE horizontally to quickly navigate pages. TAP selected page to view. Issue 001 Contents Features Note from the Editor 5 Nils Lofgren...page 33 Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band’s legendary News in brief 6 guitarist Nils Lofgren shares some Guitar Guitarist profile 14 School secrets and much more... Ask Andy 19 Chord of the month 20 Guitar Top 10s 29 Song writing tips 41 FAQs 43 From Tabs to Apps...page 26 Lesson Videos, Tutorials and Tips Songsterr brings together technology and tabs in one super cool App - it’s a must-have Beginners Bootcamp 7 tool... From buying your first guitar, to playing songs and staying motivated. Coaching Session 16 A short 20 minute session to get you working on your power chords and playing Clapton Skills & Techniques 23 Steve Stine...page 21 Time for some string bending and a great lick from Dire Straits and Guitar George As a top guitarist and teacher, both online and offline, Steve Stine offers his tips for learning quickly and easily... Guitars & Gizmos 28 Top 10 riffs you may not know, plus the latest guitar Apps and tech stuff Riffs, Licks & Solos 37 Lets’ start with a simple yet effective solo from U2’s classic song, Vertigo. Editor’s note Guitar Coach Magazine 5 Hi and welcome to Guitar Coach ... In this first issue of Guitar Coach magazine, we’ve not only got some great video coaching sessions for both Beginners and Intermediate players, but also Guitar News, Reviews, Hints, Tips, Techniques, Interviews and much more. We really hope you enjoy it and that you’ll tell all your friends about it too, particularly as it’s free! But more important than that, we hope this magazine helps you learn and have fun playing your guitar :) Contributors As you can seen on the previous page, we’ve broken down the magazine content into separate sections, to make it easy Many thanks to our contributors: for you to navigate around the articles and lessons. Nils Lofgren Steve Stine In future issues of the magazine, you will see these same The Songsterr Team sections and be able to build your own library of coaching Robin Frederick sessions for Riffs, Licks and Techniques etc. And to our writing team: Bob Cianci So, have fun, and do let me know what you think about the Graham Land magazine. Just email me at [email protected] Steven Andrews Ben Vine Tom Rosier Jonathan Howkins And our special thanks go to: Editor, Guitar Coach magazine Andy Partridge of BandJammer Keeping it Free! We hope you enjoy this issue of Guitar Coach All you have to do is tap the “Rate Us” button magazine and we look forward to bringing you below and leave us a comment and a rating. much more great free stuff in the next issue. If you’ve enjoyed this magazine, then we hope But we need your help :) you’ll give us a 5 star rating! In order for us to continue to produce this Thank you. magazine free of charge, we need to get the word out to as many people as possible - and to do this we need your help. Tap Here To Rate Us News Bulletin Guitar Coach Magazine 6 Hot news in the world of guitar this month: By Tom Rosier Lamb of God’s Front Man Arrested for Manslaughter. Andre 3000 to Star as Jimi. Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe is arrested in Oslo Outkast founder Andre 3000 is set to for the alleged manslaughter of a fan during a Lamb play the role of Jimi Hendrix in an up of God show. Blythe denies the charges and the coming movie about the rock legend’s band are appealing for funding from fans to aid his life and career, though none of Hen- legal proceedings. drix’s music will be used in the picture. Gretsch Introduce New Models. Dave Grohl Re-honoured by Hometown. Gretsch introduce seven new models of the hugely Living rock legend Dave Grohl is already successful Electromatic series guitars, basses and honoured by his hometown of Warren, left-handed guitars. Ohio after the naming of Dave Grohl Alley. Now the town are due to honour Grohl The Cult Survive Bus Crash. again, by erecting two 900-pound drum- sticks. Members of The Cult narrowly avoid a near 80-foot fall from a cliff after their bus veers off a road in Blur New Single Under (the west) Way. Croatia. Blur unveil the video for the ‘Under the Rotten Debates Drug Legislation. Westway’, the first of two new singles released by the band. The band neither Sex Pistols’ lead ‘singer’ John ‘Johnny Rotten’ Lydon confirm nor deny that they will continue debates with British politicians about the legalisa- to work together after their gigs at Hyde tion of drugs in the UK on televised debate show Park this summer. Question Time. Children of Bodom Singer Hospitalised. Radiohead Work on New Album at Jack White’s Studio. Children of Bodom guitarist and singer Alexi Laiho is rushed to hospital in Oslo, Norway after suffering Radiohead have confirmed from stomach pain at a concert. that they have been work- ing on new material at Fender Announce Summer Releases. Jack White’s Third Man Studios, but the White Fender announce the release of a new range of Stripes front man has acoustic model guitars this summer, including the denied that he has been Tim Armstrong ‘Hellcat’ 12- string, dreadnought bass involved in the writing and pair of mandolins. and/or production process. Guitar Coach Magazine 7 – How to stick with it – Buying your first Guitar – Easy songs: The Eagles, Lyin’ Eyes Bootcamp Guitar Coach Magazine 8 Staying motivated: How to stick with it by Graham Land As anyone who has attempted to learn In his best-selling book Outliers, author to play a musical instrument knows, Malcolm Gladwell states that the key to it takes hard work, patience and success in any discipline is practicing for dedication. We've all had the experience 10,000 hours. As an aspiring guitarist, of visiting a friend or colleague's house you may not have the goal of being the and spying a dust-covered guitar sitting next Jimi Hendrix, so don't sweat it if in the corner, woefully out of tune and you can't practice playing guitar in your suffering from neglect. bedroom or garage for 10,000 hours. The point is you need to put time in to get “Oh I tried it for a while, results. Practicing not only improves your playing, it gives you a sense of got nowhere and then achievement due to hard work and gave it up. I should perseverance. And though it may not seem like it sometimes, practice can be probably give it another a lot of fun. go, but I don't have the time or motivation.” Continued... Sound familiar? Maybe you've even said something similar yourself at some point. If so, how do you recapture that fire that made you fork over a consider- able sum for a guitar or bass, with dreams of creating sounds that bring pleasure to the ears of others (or at least your own)? Why did you feel you were getting nowhere fast? How can we avoid getting caught in the trap of losing inspiration and giving up? Bootcamp Guitar Coach Magazine 9 Staying motivated: How to stick with it But those are just the “facts”. We need 4. Find support ways to continue playing – methods that keep things fun, measure our success Do you have any friends who play the and make our efforts satisfying. Here are guitar or another instrument or would five tips to keep you from quitting the like to learn? Maybe they're just starting guitar and hopefully inspire those of you out. Playing or talking with others who who have already quit to pick it up, dust share the same passion for the guitar it off and try again. can provide important motivation. If you can't find others in your area, join an on- *A fun alternative to learn- 1. Give yourself clear, attainable goals. line community to discuss your musical ing other artists' songs is to progress and exchange ideas. simply create your own. Do you want to be able to perform Follow the same steps and “Capricho Arabe” like Segovia or just play 5. Visualize your success the opening riff from “Smells Like Teen goals for learning your Spirit”? *Hint: the latter is probably more Picture what it will be like to achieve favourite songs and apply realistic and therefore more functional, your goal. Imagine how it will be to play them to making your own but it's up to you. Either way, decide on your favourite songs, alone or with other songs instead. This adds a your long and short-term goals and write budding musicians accompanying you.