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Slow, Soulful Blues Lead Guitar Lesson (Easy) – Played Fingerstyle – EP349

slow soulful blues lead guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to improvise a slow and soulful lead over a non-conventional jam track (this is not your typical 1, 4, 5 chord format). You'll be using the G minor scale to play over the entire jam track track and will be playing this fingerstyle to slow things down a bit. … [Read more...]

B.B. King Inspired Lead Guitar Lesson with a Key Change – EP339

b.b. king style guitar lesson

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...]

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...]

Soulful Rhythm With Fill Licks (Using only the top 3 strings) – Rhythm Guitar Lesson – EP316

soulful rhythm guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to "compliment the band" by playing a soulful rhythm with rhythm fill licks. I'll be playing everything by using only the top 3 strings on the guitar. This was done intentionally to show how creative you can be by playing off of simple 3 note chords (triads). … [Read more...]

Blues Phrasing Mini-Series (1 of 3) Easy 4 note box – EP311

Blues phrasing guitar lesson

This is Part 1 (of 3) of a blues phrasing mini-series for guitar. If you've ever struggled with not knowing what to do with all of the scales and information that you've learned for guitar, this mini-series will be perfect for you. It's designed to give you some essential tools to get you improvising right away. This lesson focuses on a very simple 4 note box that can be played in both minor and major pentatonic scale to give you a lot of variety from just a few easy to play notes. … [Read more...]

Slow, Easy Lead Guitar Lesson (How to play a melodic lead) – EP310

slow easy lead guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow and easy, melodic lead that works on electric or acoustic guitar. This lesson focuses on how to create simple melodies using chord shapes as anchors. … [Read more...]

Slow and Easy Blues Composition That You Can Play By Yourself – Blues Guitar Tutorial – EP307

easy blues guitar lesson

In this week's blues guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a blues composition that is slow and easy to play and works on acoustic or electric guitar. This lesson is full of useful blues licks that you can apply to other things and as always, I'll connect everything back to familiar scales and chords so that you can easily transpose and play these licks in anything. … [Read more...]

Learn a slow, soulful blues rhythm and lead in a blues trio – Blues Guitar Lesson EP297

soulful blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow (and relatively easy) blues rhythm and lead over a trio backing track (just bass and drums). Playing in a trio forces you to be on your game as you're covering all of the rhythm and lead parts in real time. This lesson also makes good use of dynamics, and knowing when NOT to play. … [Read more...]

(Easy) Slow, Country Guitar Lesson – Learn to play the chord changes – EP291

slow country lead guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow (and easy) country lead by playing the chord changes. This lesson is designed to show you a different way of playing lead, by focusing on chords and arpeggios instead of scales. This technique works especially well over slow songs where the band stays on each chord for extended periods of time. … [Read more...]

Slow, Dark Blues Lead Played on Acoustic Guitar – Blues Guitar Lesson EP282

slow, dark blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson you'll learn to play a slow, dark lead on acoustic guitar (although this could be played on electric as well). I'll show you a few easy ways to connect notes to chord shapes so that you can start improvising in this style. You'll also hear several classic Mark Knopfler style blues licks in this. … [Read more...]

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