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.
