This week's video is a celebration and a big THANK YOU video to each and every one of you in the ActiveMelody family. Let's keep growing together on the guitar! No lesson this week. … [Read more...]
B.B. King Inspired Lead Guitar Lesson with a Key Change – EP339
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow and easy, B.B. King style lead by using the major pentatonic scale. I'll show you my trick for finding the major pentatonic scale triangle so that you can easily translate these licks to any key. The jam track for this lesson has a key change as well. … [Read more...]
Easy Fingerstyle Blues with a Jazzy Turnaround – Blues Guitar Lesson EP336
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a slow and easy fingerstyle blues that has a jazz style turnaround. This composition is a solo composition, so no jam track is required. As always, I'll show you how to play everything note for note and explain why everything works so that you can start applying this knowledge when you play or write your own compositions. … [Read more...]
Slow, Laid-Back Blues Lead Guitar Lesson – Played Fingerstyle – EP318
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow, laid-back lead over a J.J. Cale style jam track. This lesson focuses less on technique and more on dynamics. Most of the lead is played in Dorian Mode - I'll show you how to easily find Dorian mode by adding 2 notes to the Minor Pentatonic Scale. … [Read more...]
Learning to Play the Guitar Online
With the invention of the internet and video sharing sites like YouTube, a whole new education forum has evolved, making it much faster and easier to learn specific skills – like playing guitar. Everything is now just a click away, and you have the ability to view content over and over again, until you can do it. However, with all of the many benefits to learning how to play an instrument online, there are a few disadvantages that I keep seeing over and over again. The following video is a … [Read more...]
Minor Key, Funk Blues Rhythm in A – EP112
In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play an up-tempo bluesy sounding rhythm in the key of A. This is a great lesson for practicing strumming and timing, complete with up-strokes, down-strokes and muted strums. This lesson works on acoustic or electric guitar, no effects are needed. There are 2 versions of the MP3 jam track provided, one at normal tempo, and one that’s at a much slower tempo for those of you that are new to this style of strumming. … [Read more...]
