In this week's guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play melodic fills and lead licks that are based on chord shapes. This is particularly helpful for those of you who are frustrated when trying to improvise and feel like your lead sounds too much like you’re just playing up and down a scale. … [Read more...]
Acoustic Blues Guitar Lesson – Play Acoustic Blues Guitar By Yourself – EP315
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play an acoustic blues composition that requires no accompaniment. This composition uses the classic blues "call and response" technique, allowing you to first establish a simple blues rhythm, and then create fill licks in-between the rhythm phrases. Grab an acoustic (or electric) guitar and follow along. … [Read more...]
Minor Key Guitar Composition That You Can Play By Yourself (Playing Over 3 Chords) – EP314
In this week's guitar lesson you'll learn how to play a minor key composition that requires no accompaniment. This composition uses just 3 chords and can be played on acoustic or electric guitar. … [Read more...]
Just 2 Chords – Play The Chord Changes Using Just 2 Chords (Rhythm and Lead) – EP309
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play the chord changes using just 2 chords. This is a great technique to use when improvising because it creates a much more melodic sounding lead. This lesson includes the rhythm breakdown as an added bonus. … [Read more...]
Slow and Easy Blues Composition That You Can Play By Yourself – Blues Guitar Tutorial – EP307
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...]
Unplugged Style Blues Guitar Lesson (Part 2) – Play This By Yourself – EP305
This lesson is both a follow-up to EP303 Eric Clapton Blues Guitar Lesson from a few weeks ago, and works great on it's own as a stand-alone composition. So you can play this with the jam track from EP303 as an extension to that lesson, or a solo composition. How's that for killing 2 birds with one stone? :) … [Read more...]
Unplugged Style Acoustic Blues Guitar Lesson – Clapton Inspired – EP303
In this week's acoustic blues guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play several classic Eric Clapton inspired licks from his Unplugged era. The best part is that you'll be able to use these licks when you improvise going forward because I'll show you how to connect them to basic chord shapes that you already know. … [Read more...]
Fingerstyle Ragtime Blues Guitar Lesson – Play By Yourself – EP296
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a ragtime blues composition that's played fingerstyle. You can do this one by yourself, no accompaniment is required. In addition to learning how to play the song, you'll learn the 2 main thumb patterns used in fingerstyle compositions, and how they relate to the chords. … [Read more...]
Ragtime Blues Lead on Acoustic Guitar – Acoustic Blues Guitar Lesson – EP295
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play lead on acoustic guitar over a ragtime piano rhythm backing track. Even though the backing track has lots of chords, I'll show you an easy way to improvise a lead over it. … [Read more...]
Minor Key, R&B Style Composition – Using Call & Response Technique – Solo Guitar Lesson EP293
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a fun, minor key R&B style composition on acoustic guitar that is designed to give some different ideas for approaching rhythm. You'll be using the "Call & Response" style technique to alternate back and forth between rhythm and lead. … [Read more...]
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