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...]
Have a Blues Jam Session By Yourself on Guitar (Just 4 Chords) – Blues Guitar Lesson EP292
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play both rhythm and lead in a solo jam session (no accompaniment needed). You'll also learn a right-hand strum technique and how to play the Mixolydian scale when soloing. Everything is created with just 4 basic chords (E, Bm, A, and G).. … [Read more...]
Play a 12 Bar Blues Composition By Yourself on Guitar (No Accompaniment) Blues Guitar Lesson – EP288
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a classic, 12 bar blues composition that you can play by yourself on electric or acoustic guitar. This uses the "call & response" technique which allows you to easily go back and forth between rhythm and lead licks. As always, I'll break everything down note for note and explain the "why" behind the notes so that you can start using these licks when you improvise. … [Read more...]
Learn to play the chord changes in this Western Swing guitar lesson – EP287
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a Western Swing style lead by playing the chord changes (changing scales to match the chords). This is designed to teach you how to play more melodic and interesting sounding leads when improvising. … [Read more...]
Slow, Dark Blues Lead Played on Acoustic Guitar – Blues Guitar Lesson EP282
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...]
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Guitar Lesson – Learn a Bluesy Version of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot on Guitar – EP271
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a bluesy version of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" that's played fingerstyle. This is also a solo composition that requires no accompaniment AND it sounds great on acoustic or electric guitar. I'll also share my thoughts on how you can go about creating your own solo guitar compositions like this. … [Read more...]
Willie Nelson style guitar lesson – EP263
In this week's guitar lesson, I'll show you how to play several classic Willie Nelson style guitar licks. These licks all connect back to basic chord shapes so that you can play them in any key and incorporate them into your own playing. … [Read more...]
“St. James Infirmary” Solo Guitar Composition – EP261
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a solo composition of the classic "St. James Infirmary". You'll be able to play this on your own (with a pick). No accompaniment required! In addition to showing you how to play everything, I'll explain where the notes come from and my thought process for creating a composition like this so that you can start to do this for your favorite songs. … [Read more...]
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