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 here
October's poll winner:
En el cielo y en la tierra by Puentes
Difficulty level: Beginner - Intermediate
In the beginner tutorial I break down the song's ch...
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 month's community chosen song.
We focus on the...
This month's community-chosen song Noku Mana brought up some challenges in our community with regards to proper guitar and hand positioning (mainly with the...
2023-11-16 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In this etude (musical exercise) we are exploring the "blues scale" - an extension of the minor pentatonic scale, with a...
- Major & minor pentatonic scales across the fretboard
- Relative major & minor scales
- Parallel major & minor sca...
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.
- Keeping the rhythm & structure...
2023-11-07 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey 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 here)...
2023-11-03 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys,
What an exciting month we had!
As always, we have received some great song suggestions from you, for the next tutorial.
Shimshai - Shalom (sugges...
2023-11-01 10:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate:
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 here
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.
The song has a tricky pattern (in terms of wher...
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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2023-10-24 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHi 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 future Shai Guitar landscape and have some exciting ne...
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 a structured, musical way to lea...
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 bars in the beginning.
Original tutorial (sim...
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 between the chords
- Rhythmic hits to energiz...
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 basic chord shapes in order to be able to freely apply...
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 through the 2023-10-05 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Senol, 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, Ladis
Thank you for joining the commu...
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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August'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 Rolando Carrasco Segovia & Zamy Juárez Abad<...
2023-09-27 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostLearn 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 nice, 5 notes sequence designed to memorize the open...
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 10 tutorials (various difficulty levels), as well...
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 Mata Kali" by Akari Tamura, demonstrating a ni...
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, Zoot, Pavel, Michael, Ben, PJ, Matt, Quentin, Brad,...
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 (suggested by Ton)
2. 2023-09-03 15:30:01 +0000 UTC
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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