In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a rock, blues rhythm that includes several classic rhythm fills. I'll show you how to transpose all of these licks and fills into other keys so that you can start using them when you improvise. … [Read more...]
Boogie Woogie Style Blues Guitar Lesson – Play it By Yourself – EP284
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a really fun Boogie Woogie style blues composition that doesn't require any accompaniment. You can jam on this one all by yourself on acoustic or electric guitar. I'll also walk through several useful takeaways that you can apply when playing rhythm or lead. … [Read more...]
Minor Key Blues Guitar Lesson Played with a Percussive Fingerstyle – EP283
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a minor key blues in B minor (although, I'll show you how to easily transpose this and play it in any key). This is played with a percussive fingerstyle rhythm and requires no jam track - you can play this one all by yourself. … [Read more...]
Rock, Blues Rhythm (with fill licks) that you can play by yourself on guitar – Blues rhythm guitar lesson – EP281
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a rock, blues rhythm that sounds great on it's own (no accompaniment needed). This lesson is designed to give you rhythm strumming and fill lick ideas to make you better at writing and improvising rhythm guitar. … [Read more...]
Use chords to create a slow and melodic lead – Guitar Lesson EP280
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a melodic lead by using chords (instead of scales). By playing out of these chord shapes and targeting chord tones, you will be creating much more meaningful sounding solos when you write and improvise. The best part is that it's relatively easy to do. Lastly, this technique takes advantage of the CAGED System (which was covered in lessons EP273 and EP275). … [Read more...]
Play a Blues Shuffle By Yourself On Guitar – Blues Guitar Lesson – EP279
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a blues shuffle by yourself on guitar. I'll start by showing you how to play a classic blues shuffle rhythm, and then layer in the lead licks in a "call & response" style. No accompaniment is needed when playing this composition. … [Read more...]
Play a blues composition by yourself on guitar – both rhythm and lead – EP277
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a solo blues composition (with a little bit of a ragtime feel), that you can play by yourself on guitar (works on acoustic or electric guitar). I'll show you how to create compositions like this by combining chords with fill licks. … [Read more...]
Rock, Blues Guitar Lead – Mixing the Major & Minor Pentatonic Scales – EP276
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a rock, blues lead in the key of C by mixing both major and minor pentatonic scales. I'll explain the theory behind each of the licks so that you can use them going forward when you improvise (in any key). … [Read more...]
CAGED System for Minor Chords – How to play minor chords all over the guitar – EP275
This week's guitar lesson is a follow-up to the previous CAGED lesson that I did a few weeks ago (EP273), here's a link to that guitar lesson. That lesson was so popular that I thought it was necessary to create a 2nd part and show how to play the minor chords in various positions using the same methodology. We will be using the A minor, E minor and D minor shapes that you learn in first position to play all over the neck. Like the previous CAGED lesson, this one comes with a composition that … [Read more...]
Blues Rhythm Fills – Learn a stand-alone blues rhythm that you can play by yourself – Blues Guitar Lesson EP272
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a really fun blues rhythm composition that you can play on your own (with no need for a jam track). This is full of classic rhythm fills that are designed to spice up your rhythm chops. I'll also explain how to play them in any key. … [Read more...]
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