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. … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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). … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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 and practice boring finger exercises! … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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 bonus, I've written a 2nd half that follows the same chord structure as the first half. Available (with TAB and instruction) to Premium Members. … [Read more...]
Country Blues guitar composition By Yourself – while outlining the changes. Guitar Lesson – EP580
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a country blues guitar composition by yourself on acoustic guitar (no jam track needed). To make it work on it's own, you'll need to outline the chord changes by the notes you choose. Explained in the video! … [Read more...]
Use chord shapes from The CAGED System to play solo Blues guitar – Blues guitar lesson – EP578
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a solo blues composition that gives you something really fun to play, while providing a great way to practice chord positions from The CAGED System. … [Read more...]
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