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Beautiful guitar harmonies using just 2 strings. Easy to visualize! Guitar Lesson – EP601
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play harmonies when you improvise by visualizing chord shapes. These are all played on the 2nd and 4th strings.
Minor key blues – electric lead guitar lesson – Jam track by Quist! – Guitar Lesson EP600
In this week’s guitar lesson, we’ve got a special jam track created by the maestro himself, Quist. This allowed me to improvise an electric lead (with lots of string bending) over this incredible minor key jam track. If you like this jam track, be sure to check out Quist’s social media accounts below: YouTube channel […]
Blues Guitar by Yourself – Fingerstyle Blues Guitar Lesson – EP599
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn a fingerstyle blues composition that sounds great on it’s own (no accompaniment needed). I’ll explain which chord shapes all of the notes come from so that you can learn to improvise in this style.
Swiss Army Knife of Guitar Rhythm Ideas. Useful when improvising rhythm guitar – Guitar Lesson – EP598
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn several ideas that are useful when playing rhythm guitar. We’ll explore an idea from each of the 5 CAGED System positions.
O Little Town of Bethlehem – Easy Solo Guitar Composition – Guitar Lesson EP597
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play the Christmas song, “O Little Town of Bethlehem” on acoustic guitar by yourself (no jam track needed).
Sometimes, 5 notes is all you need! Twangy guitar melody using the Minor Pentatonic Scale – EP596
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn a fun guitar melody (think The Ventures or Duane Eddy) that uses only the 5 notes of the Minor Pentatonic Scale (1 position).
Acoustic Jam: Acoustic lead inspired by Jerry Garcia – Guitar Lesson EP595
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn an acoustic lead over a basic chord structure that was inspired by Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead). Learn to play over the chord changes
Slow country lead using the CAGED System – Guitar Lesson – EP594
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn a slow, country style lead that you’ll be able to easily visualize by relating it to the CAGED System. This lead has lots of open space and lost of classic, pedal steel licks.
Lead with Arpeggios: finding the right notes to match the chord – Guitar Lesson – EP593
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to use arpeggios to outline the notes of your lead, giving you safe notes to land on. We’ll look at the Dominant 7 arpeggio in 4 of the 5 CAGED System positions.
Easy way to visualize harmonized guitar leads – Guitar Lesson – EP592
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to easily find harmonized 3rds and 6ths by seeing where they live inside of chord shapes.
Blues chord ideas that you may not know about! Guitar Lesson – EP591
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn several chord ideas that you can use in your Blues rhythm or lead. Enjoy!
Improve your speed and accuracy with this fun Bluegrass Rag. Guitar Lesson – EP590
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a standalone Bluegrass Rag composition that was written to help you improve your speed and accuracy by the inclusion of several short lead runs that are played using alternate picking. It’s a lot more fun to have a song to work towards than to sit […]
Mixolydian Scale and dancing with your fingers! Guitar Lesson – EP589
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to use the Mixolydian scale to play over a 2 chord vamp. I’ll show you how to play up and down that scale quickly by “dancing with your fingers”.
Ideas for making a blues chord structure sound more interesting. Guitar Lesson – EP588
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn several ideas for making a standard blues chord progression sound more interesting, all while learning a blues composition that you can play by yourself.
Minor chord magic! Build incredible sounds by playing minor chords on top of Major chords – Guitar Lesson EP587
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play minor chords, 6 chords, 9 chords, and Major 7 chords all by using 3 minor shapes. This can absolutely change the way you sound when you play!
Minor Pentatonic Blues – Play this by yourself using just 1 position – Guitar Lesson – EP586
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a minor pentatonic scale blues by yourself (no jam track needed). This first half is all played using only minor pentatonic scale pattern 1, limiting your options.
Old School, Instrumental Ballad – 7 ideas you can use when you improvise – Guitar Lesson – EP585
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play the lead over an old school, instrumental ballad. There are 7 ideas that I’ll call out during this lesson that you can use when you improvise.
Learn a percussive fingerstyle rhythm and a blues lead in this minor key jam – Guitar Lesson – EP584
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn the how to play both the rhythm and the lead tracks for a minor key blues composition. The rhythm track using a percussive fingerstyle technique that makes playing a solo rhythm sound so full (includes the bass, percussion, and melody). In addition, you’ll learn a bluesy lead to […]
Why was this guitar lesson so popular? Acoustic Country Blues (REBOOT) – Now includes Part 2 – EP583
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play an acoustic country blues composition (and older MicroLesson that has been very popular on all social media platforms). You can play this by yourself and will learn where it all comes from so that you can use these ideas when you improvise. As an added […]
THIS is how to USE the CAGED System to play lead over chord changes – Guitar Lesson – EP582
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play lead over a 1-4-5 chord progression in all 5 positions on the neck by using the chord positions of the CAGED System.
