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Learn to Play Rock Guitar with Jared Meeker
"Spiderfingesr" Jared covers several essential techniques and musical phrasing ideas in his course Learn to Play Rock Guitar. His lessons are targeted toward intermediate players who want to add some serious skills.

Jared takes a closer look at the Ionian and Mixolydian scales, adding expanded fingerings and improvising ideas. He discusses bending with vibrato, legato, strumming logic, fingerstyle, and musical phrase construction. Jared also demonstrates different ways of creating tones, including advanced one-finger tapping, sweep picking, and hybrid picking. Explore Latin rhythms, too.

Preview Jared's lessons.


gear: Michael Spalt- Hybrid Guitar
Leo Scala: Delta Wing Guitar
Mesa Boogie Recording Preamp and Poweramp into
Mesa Boogie stereo 1-12 cabinets
Pedals: Yamaha GW50 (for clinics and teaching)
Line6 DM4, FM4, and DM4
Digitech Space Station
MXR phase 60
Boss PS-2, RV-3, PS-5,  and OD-2
Modified Dunlop Crybaby

books: (National Guitar Workshop Publications/Alfred)
Strong Foundations for the Beginning Guitarist
New Millenium Electric Guitar
The Science of Melodic Sequencing
Guitar Method 1
Guitar Method 2


recordings: Spiderfingers: For Today
Spiderfingers: Freak of Nature
Myka Nine:  Citrus Sessions and Work In Progress
Snoop Dogg: Paid the Cost to Be the Boss
Nate Dogg:  Brown Skin
If I Ran the Circus (Original Ballet Score)
the Last Unicorn (Original Ballet Score)


Jared Meeker is a musician, producer, and instructor committed to celebrating life and creating positive change through music – all kinds of music, including jazz, rock, reggae, world music, ballet, funk, opera, and more.  His musical passion and talents reach well beyond the stage.  He has recorded 5 solo albums, composed original scores for ballets, the Burningman Opera, and television.  Jared, and the members of his band Spiderfingers, blend folk anthems, reggae dub-soul, and progressive rock to create a truly unique sound that keeps their gig schedule full around the Los Angeles area and beyond.  Jared is founder, instructor, producer, and sound engineer at Spiderfingers Studio where he has produced music for film, several albums for record labels, artist demos, and offers lessons in guitar, bass, drums, voice, music production, and composition. He also teaches at UCLA, Antelope Valley College, and The National Guitar Workshop.



WorkshopLive interview with Jared Meeker, coming soon...

Started: Age 9 in 1985
Education: BFA California Arts College
Styles: Progressive Fusion, neo-classical rock, eclectic funk
Instruments: guitar

visit Jared at www.spiderfingers.com