Learn a country blues composition on guitar that's played fingerstyle. … [Read more...]
Fingerstyle Melody Using Basic Chords – Guitar Lesson EP397
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a fingerstyle solo composition that has a melody based on basic chords (E, A, F#m, and B). You'll learn how to play harmonized 6ths and use the open E and B string to create interesting melody lines. … [Read more...]
Laid-back, J.J. Cale style lead on electric guitar – Blues guitar lesson EP373
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow, laid-back lead in the style of the great J.J. Cale. I'll show you how everything starts with the minor pentatonic scale and how you can add 2 notes, converting it to D dorian mode. This one is easy to play from a technical standpoint and can be played fingerstyle or with a pick. … [Read more...]
How to create a singer-songwriter fingerstyle composition on guitar – Guitar Lesson EP372
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to create a James Taylor inspired guitar composition. In addition to explaining how the chords are put together, I'll also show you how to use this percussive fingerstyle technique which adds both bass and rhythm to your chords. You can use this technique both while singing and playing guitar, or while simply playing solo guitar. … [Read more...]
Jazz up your blues rhythm and lead by using 2-5-1 turnarounds – Guitar Lesson EP371
In this week's guitar lesson, we'll continue our look at Secondary Dominant Chords (from last week, EP370), and add the minor 2 chord, so that we can now play a 2-5-1 chord combination for any of the chords in the chord family of the key we're in. You'll learn how all of this applies to a 12 bar blues in this lesson. … [Read more...]
Minor Key Fingerstyle Blues Guitar Lesson – EP366
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a fingerstyle blues in a minor key. In addition to showing you how to play it note for note, I'll also explain how it was put together so that you can use these concepts when you write and improvise. … [Read more...]
Acoustic Duet – Percussive Fingerstyle Rhythm and Slow Melodic Lead – Guitar Lesson – EP353
In this week's guitar lesson, you're getting two lessons in one. You'll learn both the rhythm (played fingerstyle) and the lead for this melodic acoustic duet. The jam tracks allow you and I to play this duet together and allow you to accompany me with either the rhythm or lead part. … [Read more...]
Slow, Soulful Blues Lead Guitar Lesson (Easy) – Played Fingerstyle – EP349
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to improvise a slow and soulful lead over a non-conventional jam track (this is not your typical 1, 4, 5 chord format). You'll be using the G minor scale to play over the entire jam track track and will be playing this fingerstyle to slow things down a bit. … [Read more...]
Easy Fingerstyle Blues with a Jazzy Turnaround – Blues Guitar Lesson EP336
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
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...]
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