The song weʼre looking at is No Cigar - the first track from the album Pennybridge Pioneers (2000) which is probably their most popular album and the album that got them their first worldwide tour.
This lesson is about the CAGED System. Weʼre starting simple with just major chord shapes and root shapes. The root shapes will give you a great way to have reference points all over the neck and will enable you to visualize positions and keys all over the neck more effectively.
“Good Enough” is the first track from Less Than Jake’s “See The Light” released in November 2013. The song drives skank rhythms in the verses and full distorted choruses.
This song is great example of rhythmic phrasing in a standard punk rock song. The drums are quite tasteful, and the guitars use various rhythms of eighth and sixteenth note values.
In this lesson we are going to develop what we learned in the “Root Shapes & Major Chords” lesson. Youʼll see here that pentatonics, arpeggios and scales are all based around those Root Shapes, which makes it easy to understand and visualize the fretboard.
Bad Religion are a punk rock band that started in 1979 in Los Angeles, U.S.A. The song weʼre looking at was the first single from their “The Dissent of Man” album
released in 2010.
“Alien” is a track off Pennywise’s “Straight Ahead” album that was released in 1999 on Epitaph Records. It was Pennywise’s first song that reached mainstream radio.
This song, written by The Offspring, was featured on the album “Ixnay on the Hombre” which came out in 1997. It is a fairly fast punk rock song typical of the 90’s punk rock bands.