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Tips from the Kitchen Music Pantry 
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Getting A Dorian & D Mixolydian from G MajorSteve Briggs
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Tex Mex Double Stops in CSteve Briggs
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Kitchen Music Pantry Tips
Skip beat 3 -2 while strumming
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Skip beat 3 -2 while strumming

A fun strumming pattern to spice up your rhythm guitar.
Fretspan and finger technique on the fretboard
00:45

Fretspan and finger technique on the fretboard

A good exercise to add to your daily warm-up routine.
Outside inside fingerpicking pattern
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Outside inside fingerpicking pattern

A great fingerpicking pattern to add to your daily practice.
What's a Cadd9 chord?
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What's a Cadd9 chord?

How do you add a 9 to your chord? Let's take a look by fancying up the humble C chord!
Common Chord Pattern
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Common Chord Pattern

Here Steve Briggs takes you through a way to make the changes easier on a very popular chord progression - G, D, Emin and C.
Easy Fingerpicking Pattern
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Easy Fingerpicking Pattern

In this video, Steve Briggs will get you playing your first finger-picking pattern.
Free Fallin' by Tom Petty
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Free Fallin' by Tom Petty

Learning songs and adding to your repertoire can make such a big difference to your playing! Here's Steve Briggs showing you Free Fallin' by Tom Petty.
Barre Chords
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Barre Chords

Let's work on those Barre Chords with Steve Briggs!
The Boom Ticky Pattern
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The Boom Ticky Pattern

What's the Boom Ticky pattern? Check it out with Steve Briggs!
Melody and Harmony - Kitchen Music Pantry Tips
Ep 1_ Emaj Pentatonic and Hexatonic
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Ep 1_ Emaj Pentatonic and Hexatonic

1- Deconstructing an E major scale to five notes (E major Pentatonic) and down to six notes (E major Hexatonic). 2- E major Hexatonic explanation. Two categories: Stable notes (chord tones) & Active notes (neighbouring tones)
Ep 2_ Emaj Pentatonic and Hexatonic
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Ep 2_ Emaj Pentatonic and Hexatonic

Here our Studio Director Steve speaks about the Emajor Pentatonic and Hexatonic scales.
Ep 3_ Stable and Active Tones
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Ep 3_ Stable and Active Tones

Here our Studio Director Steve speaks about the use of stable and active tones in the Emajor hexatonic scale.
Ep 4_ Harmonize a Simple Melody
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Ep 4_ Harmonize a Simple Melody

Our Studio Director Steve talks about using the Emajor hexatonic scale to create a simple and fun melody.
Ep 5_ Improvising with Diads
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Ep 5_ Improvising with Diads

Carrying on with a look into the Emajor Hexatonic scale, Steve shows us how to up our improvisation game using diads!
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