GMI is delighted to announce another great free resource for rock guitarists. GMI Author and incredible all round guitar player Honza Kourimsky has created a twenty five minute long video which is accompanied by a forty five page PDF plus three backing tracks and a guide track.
What Level Does The Guitar Course Address?
The course covers a range of tapping concepts that go from the simple to the complex. If you’re ready to step up and get your guitar tapping in order, then click GMI guitar tapping course.
The course is a tiny part of Honza’s book published by GMI titled Tapping Discovered.
Check out this course and his book which has got many five star reviews.
If Your Only Thought Regarding Lawyers & Music Is That They Deal With All The Bad Things In The Music Business…Think Again!
It’s often said that musicians are pigeon holed by professionals. A range of stereotypes come to mind regarding laziness, unpredictability and flakiness. The thing is, it’s true both ways. Many musicians feel anyone connected with business and legal matters are not to be trusted. If you’re a musician, you need to listen to this interview with a practicing music lawyer. If you do have the former opinion, the following podcast will hopefully help change your mind.
Sea Shanties For Easy Guitar Released For Guitarists & Guitar Teachers
SEA SHANTIES ARE MORE POPULAR NOW THAN EVER. NOW YOU CAN PLAY AND SING ALONG WITH THEM IN NO TIME!
Sea Shanties For Easy Guitar offers you ten of probably the most popular sea shanty songs that can be played on guitar. Created by Ged Brockie, the sea shanty phenomenon is exploding around the world and now you can learn to play these wonderful songs quickly and with the backing tracks provided.
Play the chords and sing along with these wonderful songs from Sailors the world over. Sea Shanties For Easy Guitar offers you:
All songs include lyrics and guitar chord boxes.
Guitar chords and lyrics also provided in large easy to read text.
The songs are all TAB’D out for you to play the melody. No sight reading skills needed.
All ten songs are supported by free downloadable backing tracks and example rhythms for you to hear and learn to play from.
Each song comes with a short background history.
Help section for reading rhythms plus pages of extra chords for you to learn and play.
SONGS INCLUDED:
What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor
The Wellerman
Leave Her Johnny Leave Her
Spanish Ladies
Blow The Man Down
South Australia
A Drop Of Nelson’s Blood
Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmates
Randy Dandy Oh
The Banks Of Newfoundland
Buy this 74 page book as a flat lie wire bound version direct from the GMI GUITAR SHOP by clickingHEREor buy on Amazon by clicking the buttons below.
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The pandemic has hit so many people in all walks of live very hard. For many in the arts, the actual foundations that underpin their lives has been taken away; the opportunity to perform and earn a living.
Help Musicians are one of several non governmental options available. If you are a musician or you know someone who is and they need financial and or other help, then please listen and share this podcast.
The Latest GMI – Guitar & Music Institute 2021 Catalogue Is Now Ready To Download
It really is amazing how time flies as we realised that we were so busy working on projects last year that we didn’t get round to releasing the 2020 GMI catalogue, but we’ve set that right now with this years release pretty early on.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE CATALOGUE
This years offering builds on the success and growth that GMI has seen over the last eighteen months.
NEW AUTHORS, NEW BOOKS
We have two new authors writing for GMI in Jamie Akers (classical) and Honza Kourimsky (Rock). We will soon have another addition in Ricky Boa who adorns the front page of our catalogue and who will be bringing out a book titled “The Secrets Of Slash”.
Along with Ricky’s new book, GMI founder Ged Brockie will also be releasing a mammoth book for jazz guitarists which is reported to be around 250 pages in size with a huge free download pack accompanying. Early indications is that this will be released within the 1st quarter of 2021 with Ricky Boa’s book being released in the 2nd quarter.
With all book releases, there may be slippage in the time table, but we’ll wait and see.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
GMI is also developing a wide range of branded and non branded (but with guitar related text and images) apparel for guitarist as we widen out our offering. We are also creating guitar related art for the home. Have a look at the GMI GUITAR SHOP categories and see what we’re creating. We’d love to hear what you’d like to see made available.
GET THE CATALOGUE AND PLEASE SHARE
As always, we’d like to thank you for all your continuing support. Please download the catalogue and consider the new books, apps and free offerings we provide for guitarists.
LEARN TO TAP ON THE GUITAR WITH TAPPING DISCOVERED
GMI are delighted to announce the release of our latest publication by guitarist Honza Kourimsky titled “Tapping Discovered”.
Honza Kourimsky at the video & recording session for Tapping Discovered at GMI.
The book has taken over one year to create but the actual content has been gathered from over one and a half years of teaching, performance and recording experience in guitar tapping techniques. The best way to know what this huge project was all about is to watch the promo video that let’s you in on a huge amount of information.
WHAT’S IN TAPPING DICOVERED
So what do you get in this book? Here are the five chapters outlined.
146 pages of pure tapping goodness takes you from first principles in chapter one all the way through to the fiendishly complete solos in chapter five.
★ After legend and Tapping Form sections and videos there are 5 chapters.
★ Each of the first three chapters offer 14 exercises and then a complete solo.
★ Chapter four demonstrates ten amazing tapping licks in a variety of styles.
★ Chapter five includes two extended solos which includes all techniques, concepts and ideas presented within the text and videos of entire book.
CHAPTER 1
By the end of this lesson you will be able to travel up and down the length of the top string using multi-finger tapping. You will also learn how to adjust both your fretting and tapping grip to fit into and complement specific harmonic contexts. Finally, you will also learn to connect tapping patterns in a way that keep your hand relaxed and your playing in time with the music.
CHAPTER 2
By the end of this lesson you will be able to move up and down the length of the top string using legato tapping as well as combining legato tapping with multi-finger tapping as covered in lesson 1. As always, the emphasis will be on being able to execute these multiple techniques whilst staying relaxed and in time with the music.
CHAPTER 3
By the end of this lesson you will be able to connect multi-finger and legato tapping patterns with pentatonic tapping patterns and legato playing as well as making use of each of these patterns to cross strings on the guitar neck. You will be shown how to combine and use all the patterns you have learned so far to move both up and down the instrument horizontally and vertically.
CHAPTER 4
In this lesson we will study a variety of licks that use tapping to form at least a part of their melody. Apart from adding to your library of patterns and tapping technique, these licks will also show you how to connect tapping with other popular guitar techniques such as bends, slides vibrato etc. Of prime importance is how many of the styles presented are in styles of music often not thought compatible with tapping.
CHAPTER 5
In this final lesson you are presented with two contrasting solo pieces that involve all of the ideas and concepts presented across the last four chapters. You will be then be able to play these solos at various tempos with the downloadable backing tracks that are integral to the learning process of this publication. Once completed you will have an excellent grasp of tapping and how to use it in a myriad of improvisational scenarios.
WHERE CAN YOU GET THE BOOK?
Tapping Discovered is available as a wire bound flat lie version only from the GMI guitar shop. Click HERE to be taken to our sister website to find our more and purchase. You can also buy a perfect bound version or Kindle version of the book direct from Amazon. Here are two links which give GMI a small referral fee that helps support this website for both the USA and UK Amazon websites.
A LOOK AT THE LEGEND & ONE OF THE PAGES IN THE BOOK
Some examples from within the book itself.
This is the latest and will certainly be right up there with the hightest quality guitar tuition books that GMI – Guitar & Music Institute is becoming well known for. If you’re into tapping and want to take your playing to the next level, or perhaps you’re completely new to the technique then get Tapping Discovered, you will not be disappointed.
A New App Which Makes Use Of The Apple iWatch To Learn Guitar Is Arriving Soon…
Heard of Wristruments yet? If not, check out this podcast which details the app, work and company set up by Joe Corcoran which helps people learn to play guitar by using your watch! Interested? Thought so, click for more…
Graded arrangements of 12 all time favorite Christmas songs for acoustic, fingerstyle and classical guitar players.
OUR LATEST RELEASE REACHED #1 IN THE AMAZON USA NEW RELEASE FOR GUITAR CHART!
A collection of twelve of arguably the most well known Christmas carols and holiday season songs beautifully arranged for guitar by guitarist James Akers.
Each of the 12 songs are offered at beginner, intermediate and advanced technical versions. For beginners, start with the easy version of the song, then build up to the more complex versions which are all found in one book. This publication would also be an excellent resource for guitar teachers looking for potential material for students around Christmas time.
All songs are notated in both music and guitar TAB for non music readers.
All advanced versions of the song come with QR codes for watching a video performance of each song.
For teachers looking to keep track of student work & assignments a new lightweight Apple App may just fit the bill.
Private Music Studio 2 is for music teachers who want to track the progress of their students taking private lessons. Student information may be organized by semester including weekly lesson assignments, grades, and notes about student performances, accompanists, and ensemble participation.
Technique and exercise assignments may be created and saved as templates for use with other students. Points may be used if desired for assessing student progress. Teachers can send progress reports to students to remind them of assignments.
Students who also download Private Music Studio 2 may be invited to subscribe to view their lesson and assignment information from within their copy of the app.
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The best way to know what this huge project was all about is to watch the promo video that let’s you in on a huge amount of information. 
