In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a rock blues rhythm along with all of the details for the strum pattern. This is really designed to help those of you that struggle with timing - knowing when to come in, and how to stay on the beat. … [Read more...]
Slow, Blues Lead You Can Play By Yourself – Blues Guitar Lesson EP345
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow blues lead on electric guitar (although you could also do this on acoustic), that doesn't need a jam track. You'll be playing in the key of the song for this one, as opposed to "playing the chord changes". … [Read more...]
Connecting Chord Shapes to the Pentatonic Scales – Useful when playing the changes – Guitar Lesson EP344
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to visualize the chord changes when playing lead, by connecting pentatonic patterns to chord shapes. This uses the same jam track from last week (EP343) … [Read more...]
Minor Key Blues (B flat Minor) That You Can Play By Yourself – Blues Guitar Lesson – EP342
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a minor key blues jam in the key of B flat by yourself on guitar. This uses the classic "Call & Response" technique to allow you to jump back and forth between rhythm and lead parts. … [Read more...]
Rock, Blues Lead Guitar Lesson – Using the Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales – EP341
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a rock, blues lead that uses both minor and major pentatonic scales. I'll explain my thought process for choosing either the major or minor path when playing a solo. … [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...]
Using Dynamics to Create a Rock, Blues Lead – Guitar Lesson EP335
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll use the 5 notes of the minor pentatonic scale to create a dynamic lead, starting low and building to a crescendo. This approach is about saving the high notes and keeping them in reserve for a dramatic build. … [Read more...]
Slow, Rock Blues Guitar Lead That You Can Play By Yourself – Blues Guitar Lesson – EP334
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow blues rhythm and lead that alternates between a major chord, and it's relative minor (E and C#m). You can use the same pentatonic scale to play over both of these chords, making it fun and relatively easy to improvise in this style. … [Read more...]
Slow and Easy Country Blues Lead Guitar Lesson – EP333
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow and easy country blues lead that works on electric or acoustic guitar. This one is full of classic Western Swing, 6 chord ideas (like the ones Don Helms would play in those original Hank Williams recordings). … [Read more...]
Learn a soulful, blues rhythm and lead on guitar – EP331
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play both rhythm and lead over a soulful, blues up-tempo jam track. Lots of chords in this one! … [Read more...]
