I took a break from practicing, recording & teaching classical guitar material to have some summer fun.

Here’s a tune I wrote years ago and finally recorded.

And here are a couple of demos I did for FX pedals that my cousin built!

Finally, I also did some demo mini tunes featuring his custom built FX pedals! Enjoy!

The Billy Booster for Blues.

The MXR Micro Amp with tone control for pushing a humbucker over the top.

The DOD 250 for a nice thick overdriven Strat tone.

Here’s my arrangement of Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” for classical guitar.

Here’s my tutorial on Guitar Tricks that will teach you to play it!

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=1955

Enjoy!

I shot two versions of this tune for fun. Here’s the first.

Here’s the alternate take. Same tune, different day.

In other news HD reshoots of GT classical tutorials continue! I’ve recently published these from the classical absolute beginner curriculum.

Classical Guitar Style: An Introduction

How To Hold The Classical Guitar

Classical Guitar: Left Hand Basics

Happy springtime & enjoy!

I’ve just released a new album called ‘Red & White Blues’!  You can get CDs here.

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/christopherschlegel4

You can buy the whole thing or individual tracks on iTunes here.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/red-white-blues/id964994028

Here’s a video of me playing the first track.

Enjoy!

This month I published another GT tutorial on harmony guitar. This time the focus is on minor scales.

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=2014

Classical guitar practice also continues! I plan on reshooting and publishing my entire introductory classical curriculum in HD throughout 2015. Here’s a lovely, little Tarrega piece called ‘Adelita’.

Hello, 2015!

Here’s a little classical guitar practice, Bach’s “Joy Of Man’s Desiring”.

I also published the second in my series of harmony guitar tutorials on www.GuitarTricks.com.

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=2000

Enjoy!

Last year I made this little video. I got a lot of positive feedback, so I released it as a single & made a tutorial for Guitar Tricks.

Watch!

Listen!
http://www.cdbaby.com/christopherschlegel5

Learn!
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=1994

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

I’ve recently published the first in a series of tutorials on how to play harmony guitar parts.

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=1965

This tutorial series is about creating and playing two part harmony guitar lines in rock style music. This is often one guitar part playing a melody, lead or solo part that is harmonized by a second guitar. Major scale harmony will be used to explore the basic types of contrapuntal motion: similar, oblique and contrary.

We’ll discuss the basic ways to create melodies and harmonize them. Then we’ll create several melodies and harmonize them in different ways, using different intervals, types of motion and timbres. There will be lots of backing tracks so you can get experience playing along with the various parts and doing it yourself!

Earlier this year I posted a demo video while I was working on the ideas & materials that would become this tutorial series.

Enjoy!

This is a demo of a funky blues tune I’m working on called “Greasy Lizard”. I’m using a patch on my Zoom Multi-FX pedal that combines a Mu-tron and Octaver into my Reason Amps Bambino on Stack mode.

This tune has lyrics which will be on the final version when I finish my upcoming blues album.

Enjoy!

My latest GT tutorial is more on combining rhythm riffs & lead licks.

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=1937

This particular riff is the one I used in this vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4mRAQHiO2I

Enjoy!