🎸Livestream House Concert coming up tonight (Sunday Sept 8, 5pm Central) It's Free to join, so tune in & catch some music! Here's the link. Be sure to click "Notify Me" 🔔 so you won't miss it!
‼️MASSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT INCOMING I’ve been keeping a secret… Over the past year, I’ve been working feverishly, behind-the-scenes, building a brand new platform for Guitar Lessons. This new platform has just gone live at justinjohnsonguitar.com/ This new platform will give you streaming video guitar lessons, livestream Q&As, a calendar and other built-in features to help you keep track of your lesson progress, a community section where you can learn from others, ask questions, and share your own pics and videos for feedback. It even includes ALL of my previously released 6-string guitar video courses on slide guitar, fingerpicking, hill country blues, & more.. and, for total beginners, a BRAND NEW extensive video series “Beginners Guide to Guitar,” that will take you from your first notes to confidently reading chords, chord progressions, strumming, reading tabs, and fingerpicking. You can check it all out and subscribe at JustinJohnsonGuitar.com If you have any questions about the new platform, just put them in the comments section below or email me at justin@justinjohnsonlive.com Thanks so much for being part of the JJ Guitar Family!
The next video I post, I am going to be catching up with Alistair Hay from Emerald Guitars in Ireland, and together we will announce the WINNER of the Free Emerald X20 Guitar, from our Contest Collab between @justinjohnsonlive and @emeraldguitars. Also, every single person who entered will be receiving a special surprise from Emerald, just for entering.. so be sure to tune in! To recap how the contest works, 1 lucky person who entered designed my dream X20.. and Emerald Guitars is going to make 2 identical guitars to those specs.. 1 for me AND 1 for the winner! In the upcoming video, I’ll not only announce the winner, but will also share why that particular design won, so you’ll get a bit of a deep dive into some of the features Emerald offers on their builds, and you’ll also get a really cool behind-the-scenes look into Emerald Guitars’ showroom. 🎸🎸
🔔 Lesson livestreams coming up Sunday, May 19! 12:00pm CDT will be an INTERMEDIATE LESSON "Intro to Blues Guitar: Part 1" This lesson will be kicking off a series devoted specifically to Blues Guitar. I'll break down the foundational knowledge and history that you need to understand this incredibly diverse style, and eventually dive into more detailed avenues that will sharpen up your rhythm and lead guitar techniques. In this first lesson, I'll dive into some of the history of Blues. I'll also introduce the concept of 12-Bar Blues, and how this one foundational chord progression serves as the backbone for generations of artists, a multitude of styles, and thousands of songs. youtube.com/live/K2rmX8sYNbY 1:30pm CDT will be an INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LESSON "How to Arrange a Song for Solo Guitar" I've had many of you ask how I take a song and arrange it into a piece of music that can be performed on solo guitar. This lesson will be an introduction into the process of taking a song, breaking it down into its essential components, and then constructing a solo guitar arrangement that feels like you're listening to an entire band. I'll take you through the process of learning the song's melody on different parts of the fretboard, learning to marry the chords and melody together into manageable finger positions, incorporating bass lines and riffs into the arrangement, and much more, to create your own original guitar arrangements. youtube.com/live/eEWd6s0x-fE **The Lessons are for the Members-Only GUITAR LESSON MEMBERSHIP LEVEL, so if you want to catch these, be sure you're joined youtube.com/justinjohnsonlive/join at the "GUITAR LESSONS with JJ" Level. Click the video links above and then click "Notify Me" 🔔 so you won't miss them!
ALL THINGS Shovel Guitar coming up at 5:30pm CDT today! We're premiering a "best of" shovel guitar compilation video, with 9 different ways the 3-string shovel guitar blows people's minds.. and following it up with a FREE lesson on how to play one. @justinjohnsonlive will be LIVE in the chat for the Premiere, answering anything you ever wanted to know about the Shovel Guitar, so get your popcorn poppin now, hit "notify me" on the video link below, and join in the chat LIVE at 5:30 CDT!
🔔 Lesson livestreams coming up this Sunday! (April 28)! 12:00pm CDT will be an INTERMEDIATE LESSON Blues Boxes in the Key of A" Learning scales like the Blues Scale and the Pentatonic Scale is the first step to killer blues guitar solos, but the secret to visualizing these scales on the fretboard is to learn "boxes." Boxes are easy and convenient shapes that help the scale easily fall under your fingers. Some keys (like the key of A) allow you to employ open strings to make these boxes even more helpful, and take your solos to the next level. In this lesson, I'll be showing you my favorite boxes for the Minor Pentatonic, Major Pentatonic, and Blues Scales in the key of A. youtube.com/live/w-VMkkvham0 1:30pm CDT will be a "Music Theory for Guitar: LEVEL 1" We'll break into the theory behind notes, intervals, scales, & chords; and what rules form their relationships and define how they interact. In this lesson, I will begin by discussing the 12 notes on the guitar, how the intervals between them define our scale and chord vocabulary, and how to easily understand these rules without getting bogged down in the math and terminology. This course will be the first in a series of "Music Theory for Guitar" that will bring you closer and closer to decoding the fretboard, and developing a thorough understanding of the rules that guide western music. youtube.com/live/ZxYIn8Waxpw **The Lessons are for the Members-Only GUITAR LESSON MEMBERSHIP LEVEL, so if you want to catch these, be sure you're joined youtube.com/justinjohnsonlive/join at the "GUITAR LESSONS with JJ" Level. Click the video links above and then click "Notify Me" 🔔 so you won't miss them!
🔔 Lesson livestreams coming up this Sunday! (March 10)! 12:00pm CDT will be a BEGINNER LESSON "Intro to the 3-String Shovel Guitar" which will be the second video in the newly introduced Roots Music Lesson Series. In this lesson, I'll cover the tunings, history, playing techniques, and some of the secret techniques I use to wring the mojo out of this simple, yet surprisingly versatile and functional, roots instrument. youtube.com/live/ZSpSa4l0bx8 1:30pm CDT will be a BEGINNER LESSON for 6 String Guitar: "Easy Beginner Exercises." This lesson will focus on some easy, but incredibly useful and effective, beginner exercises, that are great for warming up, and also for helping you develop good technique and muscle memory. This lesson is aimed at the total beginner, but will be just as relevant for intermediate and advanced players looking to sharpen up the fundamentals, and pick up some more material for their warmup routine. Time to "wax on, wax off..." youtube.com/live/DWWD_33zU8c The Lessons are for the Members-Only GUITAR LESSON MEMBERSHIP LEVEL, so if you want to catch these, be sure you're joined youtube.com/justinjohnsonlive/join at the "GUITAR LESSONS with JJ" Level. Click the video links above and then click "Notify Me" 🔔 so you won't miss them!
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🎸Livestream House Concert coming up tonight (Sunday Sept 8, 5pm Central) It's Free to join, so tune in & catch some music! Here's the link. Be sure to click "Notify Me" 🔔 so you won't miss it!
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‼️MASSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT INCOMING
I’ve been keeping a secret… Over the past year, I’ve been working feverishly, behind-the-scenes, building a brand new platform for Guitar Lessons. This new platform has just gone live at justinjohnsonguitar.com/
This new platform will give you streaming video guitar lessons, livestream Q&As, a calendar and other built-in features to help you keep track of your lesson progress, a community section where you can learn from others, ask questions, and share your own pics and videos for feedback. It even includes ALL of my previously released 6-string guitar video courses on slide guitar, fingerpicking, hill country blues, & more.. and, for total beginners, a BRAND NEW extensive video series “Beginners Guide to Guitar,” that will take you from your first notes to confidently reading chords, chord progressions, strumming, reading tabs, and fingerpicking.
You can check it all out and subscribe at JustinJohnsonGuitar.com
If you have any questions about the new platform, just put them in the comments section below or email me at justin@justinjohnsonlive.com
Thanks so much for being part of the JJ Guitar Family!
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The next video I post, I am going to be catching up with Alistair Hay from Emerald Guitars in Ireland, and together we will announce the WINNER of the Free Emerald X20 Guitar, from our Contest Collab between @justinjohnsonlive and @emeraldguitars. Also, every single person who entered will be receiving a special surprise from Emerald, just for entering.. so be sure to tune in!
To recap how the contest works, 1 lucky person who entered designed my dream X20.. and Emerald Guitars is going to make 2 identical guitars to those specs.. 1 for me AND 1 for the winner! In the upcoming video, I’ll not only announce the winner, but will also share why that particular design won, so you’ll get a bit of a deep dive into some of the features Emerald offers on their builds, and you’ll also get a really cool behind-the-scenes look into Emerald Guitars’ showroom. 🎸🎸
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💥 MASSIVE SALE on ALL GUITARS in the Justin Johnson Store! NO CODE NEEDED! Just hop over to justinjohnsonstore.com/collections/guitars to get in on it!
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🔔 Lesson livestreams coming up Sunday, May 19!
12:00pm CDT will be an INTERMEDIATE LESSON "Intro to Blues Guitar: Part 1"
This lesson will be kicking off a series devoted specifically to Blues Guitar. I'll break down the foundational knowledge and history that you need to understand this incredibly diverse style, and eventually dive into more detailed avenues that will sharpen up your rhythm and lead guitar techniques.
In this first lesson, I'll dive into some of the history of Blues. I'll also introduce the concept of 12-Bar Blues, and how this one foundational chord progression serves as the backbone for generations of artists, a multitude of styles, and thousands of songs.
youtube.com/live/K2rmX8sYNbY
1:30pm CDT will be an INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LESSON "How to Arrange a Song for Solo Guitar"
I've had many of you ask how I take a song and arrange it into a piece of music that can be performed on solo guitar. This lesson will be an introduction into the process of taking a song, breaking it down into its essential components, and then constructing a solo guitar arrangement that feels like you're listening to an entire band. I'll take you through the process of learning the song's melody on different parts of the fretboard, learning to marry the chords and melody together into manageable finger positions, incorporating bass lines and riffs into the arrangement, and much more, to create your own original guitar arrangements.
youtube.com/live/eEWd6s0x-fE
**The Lessons are for the Members-Only GUITAR LESSON MEMBERSHIP LEVEL, so if you want to catch these, be sure you're joined youtube.com/justinjohnsonlive/join at the "GUITAR LESSONS with JJ" Level.
Click the video links above and then click "Notify Me" 🔔 so you won't miss them!
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ALL THINGS Shovel Guitar coming up at 5:30pm CDT today! We're premiering a "best of" shovel guitar compilation video, with 9 different ways the 3-string shovel guitar blows people's minds.. and following it up with a FREE lesson on how to play one. @justinjohnsonlive will be LIVE in the chat for the Premiere, answering anything you ever wanted to know about the Shovel Guitar, so get your popcorn poppin now, hit "notify me" on the video link below, and join in the chat LIVE at 5:30 CDT!
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🔔 Lesson livestreams coming up this Sunday! (April 28)!
12:00pm CDT will be an INTERMEDIATE LESSON Blues Boxes in the Key of A"
Learning scales like the Blues Scale and the Pentatonic Scale is the first step to killer blues guitar solos, but the secret to visualizing these scales on the fretboard is to learn "boxes." Boxes are easy and convenient shapes that help the scale easily fall under your fingers. Some keys (like the key of A) allow you to employ open strings to make
these boxes even more helpful, and take your solos to the next level.
In this lesson, I'll be showing you my favorite boxes for the Minor Pentatonic, Major Pentatonic, and Blues Scales in the key of A. youtube.com/live/w-VMkkvham0
1:30pm CDT will be a "Music Theory for Guitar: LEVEL 1"
We'll break into the theory behind notes, intervals, scales, & chords; and what rules form their relationships and define how they interact. In this lesson, I will begin by discussing the 12 notes on the guitar, how the intervals between them define our scale and chord vocabulary, and how to easily understand these rules without getting
bogged down in the math and terminology. This course will be the first in a series of "Music Theory for Guitar" that will bring you closer and closer to decoding the fretboard, and developing a thorough understanding of the rules that guide western music. youtube.com/live/ZxYIn8Waxpw
**The Lessons are for the Members-Only GUITAR LESSON MEMBERSHIP LEVEL, so if you want to catch these, be sure you're joined youtube.com/justinjohnsonlive/join at the "GUITAR LESSONS with JJ" Level.
Click the video links above and then click "Notify Me" 🔔 so you won't miss them!
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🔔 Lesson livestreams coming up this Sunday! (March 10)!
12:00pm CDT will be a BEGINNER LESSON "Intro to the 3-String Shovel Guitar" which will be the second video in the newly introduced Roots Music Lesson Series. In this lesson, I'll cover the tunings, history, playing techniques, and some of the secret techniques I use to wring the mojo out of this simple, yet surprisingly versatile and functional, roots instrument. youtube.com/live/ZSpSa4l0bx8
1:30pm CDT will be a BEGINNER LESSON for 6 String Guitar: "Easy Beginner Exercises." This lesson will focus on some easy, but incredibly useful and effective, beginner exercises, that are great for warming up, and also for helping you develop good technique and muscle memory. This lesson is aimed at the total beginner, but will be just as relevant for intermediate and advanced players looking to sharpen up the fundamentals, and pick up some more material for their warmup routine. Time to "wax on, wax off..." youtube.com/live/DWWD_33zU8c
The Lessons are for the Members-Only GUITAR LESSON MEMBERSHIP LEVEL, so if you want to catch these, be sure you're joined youtube.com/justinjohnsonlive/join at the "GUITAR LESSONS with JJ" Level.
Click the video links above and then click "Notify Me" 🔔 so you won't miss them!
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