{"id":3268,"date":"2013-03-08T13:57:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T13:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2013-03-08T13:57:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T13:57:55","slug":"john-5-guitar-lessons-via-play-this-riff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2013\/03\/08\/john-5-guitar-lessons-via-play-this-riff\/","title":{"rendered":"John 5 guitar lessons via Play This Riff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3269\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2013\/03\/08\/john-5-guitar-lessons-via-play-this-riff\/john-5-plythisriff\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/john-5-plythisriff.jpg?fit=550%2C307&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"550,307\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"john-5-plythisriff\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/john-5-plythisriff.jpg?fit=550%2C307&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/john-5-plythisriff.jpg?fit=550%2C307&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3269 lazyload\" alt=\"John 5 Play this Riff\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/john-5-plythisriff.jpg?resize=550%2C307\" width=\"550\" height=\"307\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 550px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 550\/307;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John 5 has teamed up with <a title=\"Play This Riff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.playthisriff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Playthisriff.com<\/a> (owned by Fu Manchu&#8217;s Bob Balch) to provide a number of guitar lesson videos for fans to follow. \u00a0Each lesson includes music sheets and each video lesson is available in Flash and Quicktime.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Playthisriff and John 5 provide lessons in:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Banjo Rolls (G Major)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Banjo Rolls (E Minor With Blues Notes)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Banjo Rolls (D Major)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Behind The Nut Bends<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Chicken Picking Behind The Nut<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Getting Faster<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Shred Demo<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Octave Pull Off Exercises<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Tapping With Two Hands<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Western Swing\/Walking Bass<\/p>\n<p>And much much more. \u00a0Check out the full list of public lessons here:\u00a0<a title=\"Play This Riff John 5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.playthisriff.com\/public\/programs\/search.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">playthisriff.com\/public\/programs\/search.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To get you started check out this &#8220;Tapping with Two Hands&#8221; video from John 5:\u00a0<a title=\"John 5 Tappng with Two Hands\" href=\"http:\/\/www.playthisriff.com\/public\/department820.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.playthisriff.com\/public\/department820.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 5 and PlayThisRiff.com team up to give a series of John 5 guitar lessons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,13,368,367],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-guitar","tag-john-5","tag-lessons","tag-playthisroff-com","tw-post-no-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qFj4-QI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2290,"url":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2012\/08\/11\/watch-these-great-lessons-from-john-5-on-play-this-riff\/","url_meta":{"origin":3268,"position":0},"title":"Watch these great lessons from John 5 on Play This Riff","author":"Dillon - Team John 5","date":"August 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"John 5 has teamed up with the Play This Riff website to put together a couple of lessons for you guys to learn.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Play This Riff teams up with John 5","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/play-this-riff-logo.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3925,"url":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2013\/09\/25\/watch-john-5s-shortcut-to-shred-mastery-with-total-guitar\/","url_meta":{"origin":3268,"position":1},"title":"[WATCH] John 5&#8217;s shortcut to shred mastery with Total Guitar","author":"Dillon - Team John 5","date":"September 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In the first of a two-part video series, John 5 shares his guest lessons - shred mastery - with UK magazine Total Guitar. 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