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Slow & Pretty Country Lead – Learn where the licks come from. Guitar Lesson – EP615

slow & pretty country lead guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow and pretty, Country lead by connecting licks to chord shapes. This makes them easy to remember and reusable. … [Read more...]

Part 2 (of 2) How one note can help build an entire solo. Guitar Lesson – EP610

find the root and build a lead - guitar lesson

This is a follow-up lesson to the Part 1 video on building a lead off a single (root) note. In this lesson, we'll continue adding elements to the root note, which include: chromatic notes, the flat 7 for the 1 chord, and the minor pentatonic scale. The Part 1 video to this 2 part series can be found here … [Read more...]

Country Blues by yourself! (seeing the chord shapes makes this easier) – Guitar Lesson – EP609

country blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a Country, Blues style composition by yourself (no jam track needed). Every lick / phrase that you'll learn will be connected to a basic chord shape, making it easier to visualize what's going on. … [Read more...]

Slow country lead using the CAGED System – Guitar Lesson – EP594

slow country lead guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a slow, country style lead that you'll be able to easily visualize by relating it to the CAGED System. This lead has lots of open space and lost of classic, pedal steel licks. … [Read more...]

Easy way to visualize harmonized guitar leads – Guitar Lesson – EP592

easy harmonies on guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to easily find harmonized 3rds and 6ths by seeing where they live inside of chord shapes. … [Read more...]

Why was this guitar lesson so popular? Acoustic Country Blues (REBOOT) – Now includes Part 2 – EP583

acoustic country blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play an acoustic country blues composition (and older MicroLesson that has been very popular on all social media platforms). You can play this by yourself and will learn where it all comes from so that you can use these ideas when you improvise. As an added bonus, I've written a 2nd half that follows the same chord structure as the first half. Available (with TAB and instruction) to Premium Members. … [Read more...]

THIS is how to USE the CAGED System to play lead over chord changes – Guitar Lesson – EP582

how to use CAGED system

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play lead over a 1-4-5 chord progression in all 5 positions on the neck by using the chord positions of the CAGED System. … [Read more...]

Country Blues guitar composition By Yourself – while outlining the changes. Guitar Lesson – EP580

country blues guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a country blues guitar composition by yourself on acoustic guitar (no jam track needed). To make it work on it's own, you'll need to outline the chord changes by the notes you choose. Explained in the video! … [Read more...]

Ear training (Part 2 of 2) – Playing the flat 7 over chord changes – EP571

the flat 7 over chord changes guitar

This lesson in a continuation of last week's ear training lesson (EP570) and uses the same jam track, however this week you'll learn how to play and hear the flat 7 note over chord changes. … [Read more...]

Try using triads in your lead. Simple technique for playing chord changes – Guitar Lesson – EP562

triad guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to use triads in your guitar lead for a more sophisticated lead sound. This is a super easy way of playing over the chord changes. Includes the tab for the rhythm part. … [Read more...]

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