Mick Dennis Guitarist

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Key of C - Three Dimensional Improvisation on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUd999EEy3g

Topics Covered:

Key of C - Three Dimensional Improvisation - pg1

G7 chord-0:32

Am7 chord-4:39

Key of C - Three Dimensional Improvisation - pg2

Bm7b5 chord-8:27

Cmaj7 chord-12:32

Key of C - Three Dimensional Improvisation - pg3

Dm7 chord-16:24

Em7 chord-22:02

Key of C - Three Dimensional Improvisation - pg4

Fmaj7 chord-26:16

In this guitar lesson, I am playing a late 80's Ibanez Artist with a Seymour Duncan Jazz pickup (neck pick-up-series) through a Custom Billm Modified Fender Blues Junior in a custom designed cherry wood cabinet with a Jensen Special Design C15N speaker. I am using a TELEFUNKEN Graphite Enriched Delrin Large Triangle Guitar Pick, D'Addario NYXL Nickel Wound Strings 09-42 and a Horizon right angle cable.

The percussion track is the DrumJam app for iPad running through a pair of TAPCO S-5 Active Studio Monitors.

The audio was recorded with an iPhone 6s Plus using the Voice Memos app with a RØDE iXY Stereo Microphone. I'm using both an ATS Acoustic Bass Trap - 24 x 48 x 4 and a DIY acoustic baffle made from "8" pieces of 16 x 48 x 2 Ultra Touch Denim Insulation placed about 12 inches behind the amp.

For audio mastering, I've added a compressor and limiter in GarageBand. There is no EQ or reverb added.

Peace Out!~Mick

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Tell Your Story - 50 Years Of Guitar Advice on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bPP9fKOEA0

Topics Covered:

Equipment used-1:19

3rd position-10:32

Short DrumJam Track for Improvising(Dm7 to G7)-12:15

5th position-17:03

Short Jam Track for Improvising(A minor blues)-24:20

7th position-27:51

10th position-30:08

Short DrumJam Track for Improvising(Dm7-D Dorian Vamp)-31:42

12th position scale-33:32

open position-33:52

12th position-34:53

Short DrumJam Track for Improvising(Em to Fmaj7)-36:00

In this guitar lesson, I am playing a late 80's Ibanez Artist with a Seymour Duncan Jazz pickup (neck pick-up-series) through a Custom Billm Modified Fender Blues Junior in a custom designed cherry wood cabinet with a Jensen Special Design C15N speaker. I am using a John Petrucci Jazz III 1.5mm Guitar Pick, D'Addario NYXL Nickel Wound Strings 09-42 and a Horizon right angle cable.

The percussion track is the DrumJam app for iPad running through a pair of TAPCO S-5 Active Studio Monitors.

The audio was recorded with an iPhone 6s Plus using the Voice Memos app with a RØDE iXY Stereo Microphone. I'm using both an ATS Acoustic Bass Trap - 24 x 48 x 4 and a DIY acoustic baffle made from "8" pieces of 16 x 48 x 2 Ultra Touch Denim Insulation placed about 12 inches behind the amp.

For audio mastering, I've added a compressor and limiter in GarageBand. There is no EQ or reverb added.

Peace Out!~Mick

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Em Pentatonic - Guitar Fretboard Visualization Etude on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBClhgr0D8U

The Em Pentatonic Guitar Graphic featured here created with

paper + typography by sabeena karnick on Behance -

https://www.behance.net/sabeenu

Topics Covered:

1) open position Em pentatonic scale-0:24

2) 4 note patterns (DEGA & ABDE) on adjacent strings using 1-3-1-3 fingerings-1:00

3) 4 note patterns (DEGA & ABDE) using chromatic passing tones-2:26

4) 6 note patterns (ABDEGA) on adjacent strings using 1-3-1-3-1-3 fingerings-6:40

5) 4 note patterns (BDEG-Em7 chord arpeggio) on adjacent strings using 1-4-1-4 fingerings-8:15

6) 4 note patterns (BDEG-Em7 chord arpeggio) using chromatic passing tones-10:10

7) brief reference to the chromatic walking bass line in "Money" by Pink Floyd-10:55

8 )Em pentatonic chord shapes-11:42

9) "blues box" with Em pentatonic chord shapes-15:03

10) playing the Em pentatonic scale up and down on individual strings using note groupings (GAB & DE)-15:53

11) using sliding and bending articulations with the Em pentatonic scale-20:08

12) 5 note Em pentatonic scale pattern in groupings (GAB-DE) in "3" different octaves across the fingerboard and a brief reference to the G major pentatonic harmonic application-21:53

In this guitar etude, I am playing a late 80's Ibanez Artist with a Seymour Duncan Jazz pickup (neck pick-up-series) through a Custom Billm Modified Fender Blues Junior in a custom designed cherry wood cabinet with a Jensen Special Design C15N speaker. I am using a red amethyst guitar pick., D'Addario NYXL Nickel Wound Strings 09-42 and a Horizon right angle cable.

The audio was recorded with an iPhone 6s Plus using the Voice Memos app with a RØDE iXY Stereo Microphone. I'm using both an ATS Acoustic Bass Trap - 24 x 48 x 4 and a DIY acoustic baffle made from "8" pieces of 16 x 48 x 2 Ultra Touch Denim Insulation placed about 12 inches behind the amp.

For audio mastering, I've added a compressor and limiter in GarageBand. There is no EQ or reverb added.

Peace Out!~Mick

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Bb Natural Minor - Power Chords - Bb Minor Pentatonic on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-PQ6-NnzN4

In this guitar etude, I am playing a late 80's Ibanez Artist with a Seymour Duncan Jazz pickup (neck pick-up-parallel) through a Custom Billm Modified Fender Blues Junior in a custom designed cherry wood cabinet with a Jensen Special Design C15N speaker. I am using an Ultex Large Triangle .060 pick, D'Addario NYXL Nickel Wound Strings 09-42 and a Horizon right angle cable.

The percussion track is the DrumJam app for iPad running through a pair of TAPCO S-5 Active Studio Monitors.

The audio was recorded with an iPhone 6s Plus using the Voice Memos app with a RØDE iXY Stereo Microphone. I'm using both an ATS Acoustic Bass Trap - 24 x 48 x 4 and a DIY acoustic baffle made from "8" pieces of 16 x 48 x 2 Ultra Touch Denim Insulation placed about 12 inches behind the amp.

For audio mastering, I've added a compressor and limiter in GarageBand. There is no EQ or reverb added.

Peace Out!~Mick

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Dominant 7sus4 chords - chromatic approach tones - improv ideas on YOuTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eixcaXZR9Ec

In this guitar lesson, I am playing a late 80's Ibanez Artist with a Seymour Duncan Jazz pickup (neck pick-up-series) through a Custom Billm Modified Fender Blues Junior in a custom designed cherry wood cabinet with a Jensen Special Design C15N speaker. I am using D'Addario NYXL Nickel Wound Strings 09-42 and a Horizon right angle cable. I'm playing fingerstyle.

The audio was recorded with an iPhone 6s Plus using the Voice Memos app with a RØDE iXY Stereo Microphone. I'm using both an ATS Acoustic Bass Trap - 24 x 48 x 4 and a DIY acoustic baffle made from "8" pieces of 16 x 48 x 2 Ultra Touch Denim Insulation placed about 12 inches behind the amp.

For audio mastering, I've added a compressor, multipresser and limiter in GarageBand. There is no EQ or reverb added.

Peace Out!~Mick

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Blue Bossa - Chord Melody - Key of Em on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJoSqWZylUU

The video begins with a slow reading of the basic tab arrangement. The 2nd time through at 5:46 I am embellishing the basic arrangement and taking some "artistic liberties" with the timing of the quick melodic passages. Perhaps it was the heat of summer that caused some mental lapses toward the end of the form. I think I recovered reasonably well! In other words, Fake it till you make it! There is a nice artificial harmonics arpeggio for the ending.

I am playing a late 80's Ibanez Artist with a Seymour Duncan Jazz pickup (neck pick-up-series) through a Custom Billm Modified Fender Blues Junior in a custom designed cherry wood cabinet with a Jensen Special Design C15N speaker. I am using a PICKBOY Exotic Pick-ebony, D'Addario NYXL Nickel Wound Strings 09-42 and a Horizon right angle cable.

The guitar amp was recorded with a Shure SM-57 (panned hard left in the mix) and a Heil PR-40 microphone (panned hard right in the mix) both going into an Apogee Duet into an iPad Air running GarageBand.

I used GarageBand to sync the video and audio together.

For audio mastering, I added a basic limiter in GarageBand. There is no EQ or reverb added.

The video was shot with an iPhone 6s Plus with the FiLMiC Pro app.

Lighting is a single Fancier Studio Fan 500A 3 LED Light Panel.

ALTERNATE VERSIONS

Blue Bossa-Apogee Duet-Chord Melody-Key of Em -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y-eMlDOIik

Blue Bossa - Chord Melody - Key Of Em - Mick Dennis -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZABY0UoJBc

Elk Creek Cafe-Oct. 14, 2010-Blue Bossa slideshow -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoYItsPzZ0c

Blue Bossa-Solo Guitar -

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

Peace Out!~Mick

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Pedal Demo - Old School - New School - Pink Floyd - Led Zeppelin on YouTube -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd-Pla7Ooes

The equipment being used in this video:

~late 80's Ibanez Artist with a Seymour Duncan JB pickup (bridge pick-up-parallel)

~VOX Wah-Wah Model V847

~electro-harmonix small stone phase shifter (black-Made in Russia)

~ProCo Rat 2

~Tech 21 SansAmp Character Series Blonde V2 Distortion Guitar Effects Pedal

~EarthQuaker Devices Dispatch Master V2 Delay and Reverb Pedal

~A.R.T. LeVeLAr Profesional Vactrol/Leveling Amplifier

~Vintage '70's Ampeg AC-12 Tube Combo Amp

Photos available here.

The video was shot with an iPhone 6s Plus with the FiLMiC Pro app, Apple Lightning to 30-pin Adapter and a Rode iXY Stereo Microphone.

For audio mastering, I added a compressor, multipresser and limiter in GarageBand. There is no EQ or reverb added.

Peace Out!~Mick

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Bm blues - chord shapes - blues box - pentatonic scale patterns on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EkN9vRkztE

Please go here to get the guitar lesson sheets for this video.

In this video I am playing a late 80's Ibanez Artist in the neck position with a Seymour Duncan Jazz pickup (neck pick-up-series) with a Golden gate pick through a Custom Billm Modified Fender Blues Junior in a custom designed cherry wood cabinet with a Jensen Special Design C15N speaker.

The video was shot with an iPhone 6s Plus with the FiLMiC Pro app.

Lighting is a single Fancier Studio Fan 500A 3 LED Light Panel.

The guitar amp was recorded with a Heil PR-40 microphone and the voice audio was recorded with an audio-technica AT831b Cardoid Condenser Lavalier Microphone both going into an Apogee Duet into an iPad Air running GarageBand.

I used GarageBand to sync the video and audio together.

For audio mastering, I added a compressor, multipresser and limiter in GarageBand. There is no EQ or reverb added.

I'm using both an ATS Acoustic Bass Trap - 24 x 48 x 4 and a DIY acoustic baffle made from "8" pieces of 16 x 48 x 2 Ultra Touch Denim Insulation placed about 6 inches behind the amp. There are "2" ATS Acoustic Panels - 24 x 48 x 4 set up behind me as a backdrop and additional sound treatment. There is also a DIY acoustical ceiling cloud made with the 16 x 48 x 2 Ultra Touch Denim Insulation which covers approx half the ceiling of my small studio.

Peace out!~Mick

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Below is a link for the videos of our MBS Jazz Trio performing at the Annual Leadership Centre County Graduation Celebration and Alumni Reunion.

Webpage - Leadership Center County Graduation Celebration 2018

Peace Out!~Mick

Cm-Bb-Abmaj7-Gsus - Jam Track - Cm pentatonic on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTPd-6ZF3-w

This basic riff was inspired by the book Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page. For improvising, you can simply stay with the C minor pentatonic or C blues scale. C natural minor (relative to Eb major) is also a good choice for improvising. Have fun jamming out on this track!

The first couple of pics show my basic recording setup.

The edgy pics of the Jimmy Page book were shot with the Hipstamatic app on an iPhone 6s Plus.

For all of you "old time rockers" out there. This recording features a classic "old school" ending! Enjoy!

Peace Out!~Mick