In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a simple stand-alone composition that demonstrates how to connect fill licks to basic chord shapes. These can be transposed to any key. … [Read more...]
Visualize and use 3 minor scales when improvising lead – EP463
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play the Natural Minor Scale, Dorian Scale, and the Blues Scale all over a Bluegrass style jam track. … [Read more...]
Country lead from chord shapes – with pedal steel licks – EP462
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a country style lead that follows the chord changes by attaching licks to chord shapes. Also includes several cool pedal steel licks. … [Read more...]
Shady Grove for guitar – 2 Levels of Difficulty – EP448
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play the song "Shady Grove" by yourself on guitar (no jam track needed). This lesson includes 2 levels of difficulty. Level 1 is easier (all down strokes), Level 2 is a little more difficult with alternate picking and upstrokes for the right hand. … [Read more...]
Use these easy triads to play a 1-4-5 chord progression in ANY key. CAGED System Guitar Lesson – EP446
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to connect 3 triads to play a 1-4-5 chord progression in the same area of the fretboard. You can easily move this shape up or down the neck to play it in any key. Perfect for blues, country, bluegrass, or rock. … [Read more...]
Playing Harmonies: Change the way you see the neck – EP443
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to easily visualize harmonies for both rhythm and lead by connecting them to 3 basic chord shapes that you already know. … [Read more...]
Slow and easy country rhythm ideas – Guitar Lesson – EP433
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to use triads and harmonies to create rhythm fills by playing over the chords. This uses just a couple of basic 1st position chord shapes and is full of "takeaways"! … [Read more...]
Johnny Cash – Luther Perkins Rhythm Style Guitar Lesson – VG33
Have you ever wanted to play that Johnny Cash style rhythm? This lesson shows you how to combine the Luther Perkins picking style, with Johnny Cash's strum style to create that classic country rhythm. … [Read more...]
Relative Major and Minor Chord and Scale Relationship – EP417
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn about the relationship between a minor chord, and it's relative major chord, and how both chords share the same scale. You'll be putting everything into practice by playing an up-tempo rock, blues lead. … [Read more...]
Country blues in Drop D – Play by yourself – EP416
In this weeks' guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play an acoustic country, blues composition in drop D tuning by yourself (no jam track needed). This lesson is designed to give you ideas for licks and chord voicings that you can play in Drop D tuning. … [Read more...]