Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangement for the month's community chosen tutorial:
En el Cielo y En la Tierra by Puentes
Difficulty level: Advanced
To watch the beginner tutorial (original version), click 2023-11-29 09:10:00 +0000 UTC View Post
October's poll winner:
En el cielo y en la tierra by Puentes
Difficulty level: Beginner - Intermediate
I...
2023-11-29 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostDid you see how existing members have been making Noku Mana their own..? 🤩 How amazing!!
In November we have pre-launched the Be the Community program, our online🎶 Medicine Music Academy 🎶 with a select group of 20 community members.
In the program we go through the process of "grounding" the mon...
This month's community-chosen song Noku Mana brought up some challenges in our community with regards to p...
2023-11-16 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In this etude (musical exercise) we are exploring the "blues scale" - ...
- Major & minor pentatonic scales across the fretboard
- Relative major & m...
2023-11-08 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Masterclass Malinda & I were demonstrating how to apply the fingerpicking & strumming techniques in a musical context, while working in a duo format.
Hey guys,
What an exciting month we had!
It was great to receive the enthusiastic responses and support, and to start the new "Be the Community" online program, hosted by Malinda (watch the video where we share more about the program 2023-11-03 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
What an exciting month we had!
As always, we have received some great song suggestions from you, for the next tutorial.
Update:
I have uploaded an updated lyrics / chord sheet for the "Vuela con el Viento" tutorial.
Including chord diagrams as well!
Enjoy 🎶
2023-10-29 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostFingerstyle Guitar Arrangement for the month's community chosen tutorial:
Noku Mana by Curawaka
Difficulty level: Intermediate - advanced
To watch the beginner tutorial (original version), click 2023-10-27 09:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post
September's poll winner:
Noku Mana by Curawaka.
Difficulty level: Beginner - Intermediate
In the beginner tutorial I break down the song's chords, fingerpicking pattern, strumming pattern & counting.
... 2023-10-27 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostA sneak preview to October's community chosen tutorial: "Noku Mana"!
Tutorial for the original song (beginner friendly) + tabs for the fingerstyle guitar arrangement will be released in the upcoming week. Stay tuned!
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Hi everyone,
A lot has been happening in the Shai Guitar field lately, and it feels important to share an update
with you at this stage.
Malinda, my wife, and I want to share a bit about the restructuring process of the past months,
give you a peek into the futu...
2023-10-23 13:23:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys,
In the video above I demonstrate and explain about the structure and musical principals of the upcoming "Master the Fretboard" online course.
The course is being born out of the work I did 1 on 1 and in small groups in the past few years, and comes to answer for the need for...
2023-10-23 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Many of you have asked for the alternative version to play "Light of your grace", as Sam himself often plays it live.
I am attaching to this post the tabs for the alternative version (which I made for a student a few years ago), with partial capo (on the 6th-3rd strings). Ignore the empty b...
2023-10-17 17:39:00 +0000 UTC View PostAdd color & groove to your rhythm guitar playing
In this etude (musical exercise) I am using a simple chord progression (Am, F, G, Em) and experiment with adding the following elements:
- Open strings to enrich the chords and add color
- Scalar passages in b...
2023-10-12 09:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA clarification regarding Pavel's question about chord inversions on "Naturaleza"
In this video I give a (very) quick overview of chord inversions, the CAGED system, and how to apply it. This is quite a big topic which takes time to master, and requires memorization of the neck and the basi...
2023-10-07 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostUpdated tabs are available for the "Nuestro Mundo" tutorial.
Bars 16 & 22 were corrected (added the bass note), thank you Alba for noticing and letting me know!
The tabs are available for download throu...
2023-10-05 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSenol, Jonah, Fox, Andy, Andreas, Sequoia, Mitchell, Ricardo, Charles, TiTO, Noor, Naava, Amy, Dan, Thomas, Stan, Venkatesh, Ivo, Lilith, John, Vladimir, Vivasoul, Riyu, Miguel, Mathias, Sanne, Jose, Max, Elise, Dreyden, Lara, Aliya, Monika, Andreas, La...
2023-10-04 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAugust's poll winner:
Agua de Estrellas (based on the version by Rolando Carrasco Segovia & Zamy Juárez Abad)
Difficulty level - Intermediate - Advanced
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2023-10-01 09:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAugust's poll winner: "Agua de Estrellas".
In this video I am demonstrating the fingerstyle guitar arrangement for the song.
Separate tutorial will be released soon for the version by 2023-09-27 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Learn the open position of the pentatonic scale, and hot it sounds over a major vs. a minor root note
Difficulty level - Intermediate
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About the tutorial
In this tutorial I demonstrate a ni...
2023-09-20 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBellow is the the overview of the different Tiers, and an alphabetical list of all of the content that's available on each tier.
Meet the community
Meet the Shai Guitar community and get a taste of the available content
Includes access to...
Meet Vanessa from Australia. Vanessa is a therapist and a musician, she combines music in her work, both as a performer and a coach.
In this video Vanessa plays the song "Jay ...
2023-09-10 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome Raquel, Philip, Jon, Matthew, Amadon, Kerstin, MOM • ME • SOUL, Na'ama, Aloïs, Vinicious, Nick, Muriel, Lidor, Patrick, Igor, Nurlan, Elias, Миколай, Daniel T., Alex, Daniel A., Morty, Christian, Rosa, Z...
Chord sheet now available for the song "Upasana" by Sam Garrett, together with the video tutorial.
Here's the link
Enjoy!
And don't forget to vote for the next tutorial in
2023-09-03 15:45:12 +0000 UTC
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Hey everybody,
Hope you're all doing well. I have received some wonderful song suggestions the past month, be sure to have a listen and vote for your favorite ones:
1. Ram Dass - April 13 ...
July's poll winner : "Kol Galgal" (based on the version by Tina Malia)
This is the simplified version, for the original (intermediate level) version, check out the 2023-08-27 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post