My latest guitar vid is up on my You Tube channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLjNwcZDbRM

And also picked up by Gibson here.

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Lessons/InstrumentLessons/Joe-Pass-Style-Blues-512/

Notice that on their Lesson homepage they’ve also given me a Full Course link (goes to my “St. Louis Blues” lesson).

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Lessons/

I have another, more in depth, jazz lesson I am working on for them right now.  Stay tuned!  I am also trying to get them to issue me an Artist pass for the Summer NAMM show.  I will be going anyway, thanks to GuitarTricks, but I’d love to have a full Gibson access pass also.  Obviously.

In other news, GuitarTricks has built up quite a few vids and views on the new web channel.

http://www.guitartricks.com/channel/

Happy viewing!

The Gibson Guitar company website picked up my “St. Louis Blues” video lesson and embedded it on their lesson pages.  It has been in rotation as a featured Lesson Of The Day.

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Lessons/InstrumentLessons/Learn-St-Louis-Blues-320/

Gibson originally gave me the guitar to do a series of video lessons on an “Introduction To Jazz Style Guitar”.

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Lessons/InstrumentLessons/Introduction%20To%20Jazz%20Style%20Gui/

This is one in series of 9 lessons I did for them back in 2008.

It was good to hear from their of online content manager that he thought highly of my jazz performance vids and wanted to use more of my jazz lessons in the future!  Toward that goal I’ve made my next YouTube vid
another bit of extracted lesson footage.  This time up is the old Turner Layton standard “After You’ve Gone”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTme6JzlLwU

Enjoy!

I recently did a series of video lessons on the various types of guitar necks and fretboard.

I used four of my Strat-style electric guitars for the project.  While I had them all sitting out close together I took a couple of pictures.  They are typically scattered throughout the house.  Or several are in various rooms and several others are in cases.  Or without strings.  Or partly disassembled for repairs, etc.

From left to right:

1.  Black Strat with 1972 extremely scalloped neck.  The body is from another unknown Fender Strat.

2.  Series 10 Strat-style copy with a fretless neck.  I got this from Nick at Troll Music (www.trollmusic.com) years ago and ripped the frets out.

3.  Cheap Strat-style copy I’ve had since 1983.  This guitar has been through the proverbial mill.  Several times.  It started off yellow-cream colored with cheap-o pickups.  I put Dimarzio HS-3s in it and slightly scalloped the neck.  A few years later I replaced the pot metal bridge and vibrato block with a nice heavy Fender gold-plated steel one I got from a used guitar parts store.  It sounds and plays astonishingly well for a cheap copy Strat.  I painted it gold about 10 years ago.

4.  The red 1979 Strat.  My main guitar now for the last 20-plus years.  HS-3s, jumbo frets, stock Fender A neck (slim profile and extra curved radius!).  It’s beautiful machine!

Pictues of some of my other tools (guitars, etc.) are located here:

www.truthagainsttheworld.com/files/Tools/

Enjoy!

Christopher Schlegel Update 11-21-2008

Guitar Tricks has officially launched it’s new design! It’s looks great. The admin is still working out a few bugs, which is typical of a new launch. All of the instructors (me included) are working on redoing all our video lessons in HD (High Definition) video standard. Check out the new design. If you sign up for a free account you can even see some of my newly HD rendered vids for free!

http://www.guitartricks.com

I’ve uploaded more footage from the Arts Festival this past Sept. This time it’s Richard Rodgers’ “Have You Met Miss Jones?”, in which it is quite apparent how much I admire Joe Pass. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3aRbG9DpnM

Next is my decidedly non-real-jazz-musician version of Thelonious Monk’s “Blue Monk”. Geez, I even play it in A major. Instead of B-flat like a “real jazz cat” ought to. I had fun with it anyway. And no one was hurt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYjOZw1ff5g

Happy viewing and listening!

I had a great time at the Arts Around the Square Fest in Paris, TN. It was a beautiful day and I traded 30 minute sets on the main stage with a singer-guitarist and his keyboardist. We took turns playing for 3 hours, so I played for about an hour and a half total.

I have lots of video footage thanks to my friend Logan Grathwell who sat out in the crowd at the picnic benches and pointed the camera at me. Thanks, Logan!

I will be editing and rendering the raw footage a little at a time. First up is Duke’s luscious “Satin Doll”:

Next is Irving Berlin’s lovely “Blue Skies”:

I have decent footage from 16 tunes that I will edit, render and upload to my YouTube page over time:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ChristopherSchlegel

Happy viewing and listening!

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