In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a Gospel Blues style lead where you'll be playing over the chord changes, all while using basic chord shapes and the pentatonic scale. … [Read more...]
Gospel Blues Rhythm Guitar Lesson – Rhythm ideas that you can easily use in your playing – Guitar Lesson EP470
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play an up-tempo, gospel blues rhythm, full of fill licks and embellishments that you can apply to any style. … [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...]
3 Gospel Style Techniques for Guitar – Gospel Blues Guitar Lesson – EP431
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a solo gospel blues composition using the melody from the song, 'This Little Light of Mine". You'll learn 3 essential gospel techniques that you can apply to any style! … [Read more...]
Gospel blues rhythm using the CAGED System – Rhythm Guitar Lesson EP378
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a Gospel style blues rhythm with fill licks. This is a great working example of how the CAGED System works and is designed to help you visualize chords in different positions on the guitar neck. This is also a stand-alone composition that sounds great by itself! … [Read more...]
Gospel Style Blues Guitar Lesson – How to Use Simple Phrasing – EP361
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play (and improvise) a slow blues lead over a Gospel style jam track. Pay close attention to the simple phrasing used in this lesson, and the pauses (there are more of them than you realize) … [Read more...]
Soulful, Gospel Style Rhythm and Lead Guitar Lesson – EP330
This week's guitar lesson is a good example of the CAGED system in action. You'll learn how to play chords in multiple positions on the neck and how to connect them to the pentatonic scales so that you can easily create fill licks. This lesson is full of "takeaways". … [Read more...]
Soulful, Blues Lead Played Over a Gospel Style Chord Progression – Blues Guitar Lesson – EP252
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a soulful, blues lead over a gospel style chord progression. This is played in the key of G, but I'll show you how to relate all of the notes / licks back to common chord shapes so that you can use these licks in any key. Mp3 Jam track available in 2 tempos. … [Read more...]
Gospel Style Blues Guitar Lesson – Solo Composition (No Accompaniment Needed) – EP248
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a gospel style blues composition that's played solo guitar (no accompaniment needed). You'll be using the "call and response" technique which is what allows you to play this on your own. I'll break down everything and show you how to play it note for note and explain where those notes come from so that you can start to create your own compositions like this one. Also, there were no open strings in this so you can easily transpose it to any … [Read more...]
Gospel Style Blues Guitar Lesson – Major Pentatonic Scale – EP210
This guitar lesson is a blues lead that's played in the major pentatonic scale. This isn't your typical 12 bar blues format. There are lots of chord changes in this, but the same basic principles apply when playing lead. You’ll be playing within the key (C), and won’t have to worry about playing the chord changes (matching the chords), instead you’ll just be staying within the key of the song, which makes it much easier. I'll also explain where all of the licks come from so that you can start … [Read more...]
