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Easy Fingerstyle Blues with a Jazzy Turnaround – Blues Guitar Lesson EP336

easy fingerstyle blues guitar lesson

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...]

Rhythmic, Fingerstyle Blues Guitar Lesson – EP332

rhythmic fingerstyle blues guitar lesson

In this guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a rhythmic (percussive) fingerstyle rhythm by using your thumb on the 1 and 3 beat, and "slapping" the 2 and 4 beat - it's easier than you think! This composition doesn't require a jam track and works on acoustic or electric guitar. … [Read more...]

Ragtime Blues Rhythm Played on Acoustic Guitar – Play This One By Yourself – EP329

ragtime acoustic blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a ragtime rhythm (with fill licks) on acoustic guitar by yourself (no accompaniment is required). This is the perfect lesson for those of you who struggle with right-hand strum patterns and how to play interesting rhythms on guitar. … [Read more...]

Delta Blues Guitar Composition Played Using Hybrid Picking – Acoustic Blues Guitar Lesson EP323

acoustic delta blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to use the hybrid picking technique to play a delta blues style composition on acoustic guitar. Lots of classic Robert Johnson style licks in this one, AND you can play it by yourself. If you're already a fingerstyle player, I'll show you how to easily adapt this hybrid technique so that you can play it without using a pick. … [Read more...]

Rhythm and Lead Fills For Acoustic Guitar Using Chord Shapes – EP320

acoustic guitar lesson

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

Acoustic blues guitar lesson

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

minor key guitar composition that you can play by yourself

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

Play the chord changes guitar lesson

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

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...]

Unplugged Style Blues Guitar Lesson (Part 2) – Play This By Yourself – EP305

eric clapton guitar lesson

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...]

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