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5 Guitar lick ideas to up your game when improvising. Guitar Lesson – EP581

5 Guitar Lick Ideas

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn 5 guitar lick ideas that can make you sound like a pro! You can apply these concepts to any style and in any key. … [Read more...]

Use your ear and improvise a blues lead over a minor key jam track in 1 take. Guitar Lesson EP576

improvising blues lead guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, I'll talk through the thought process behind improvising a lead over a song you've never heard before. Let your ear be your guide! If you like this jam track, be sure to check out Quist's social media accounts below: YouTube channel - full of classy sounding backing tracks by going here Spotify - Stream Quist backing tracks by going here Instagram - Featuring some of Quist's amazing guitar work by going here … [Read more...]

Transform a few basic chords in to a solo guitar composition! Mellow guitar jam – Lesson EP572

transform chords into a guitar composition

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow and mellow guitar composition by yourself (no jam track needed), and will learn where all of the notes come from by visualizing chord shapes. You can create your own compositions using this technique … [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...]

Ear training (Part 1 of 2) – A simple formula for finding the right notes and playing by ear. Guitar Lesson EP570

ear training guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to find which notes to target (or land on) by using your ear alone. This simple formula works, even if you don't have a good sense of pitch yet. Here's a link to Part 2 where we introduce the Flat 7 … [Read more...]

Acoustic blues guitar that you can play by yourself – Guitar Lesson – EP569

acoustic blues by yourself on guitar

In this week's guitar lesson you'll learn an acoustic blues composition that you can play on your own, no jam track required. … [Read more...]

Albert King style lead – Play this by yourself (no jam track) – Guitar Lesson – EP554

albert king guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn an Albert King inspired lead that is full of those classic, "Albert Kingisms" that are so common in electric blues. This is a lead that you can play by yourself (no jam track required). … [Read more...]

Major Pentatonic Blues Ideas – Featuring QUIST! + the Eric Clapton Crash Strat – Guitar Lesson EP547

major pentatonic blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn an Eric Clapton style blues lead that primarily uses the Major Pentatonic scale (with a few minor pentatonic licks). The jam track for this lesson is provided by Quist! If you like this jam track, be sure to check out Quist's social media accounts below: YouTube channel - full of classy sounding backing tracks by going here Spotify - Stream Quist backing tracks by going here Instagram - Featuring some of Quist's amazing guitar work by going here … [Read more...]

“Call & Response” blues lead IDEAS when improvising – Played over Just 1 Chord – Guitar Lesson EP545

blues call and response ideas for guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll pick up several new improvising ideas by learning how to play a bluesy Call & Response style lead over a jam track that has just 1 chord. … [Read more...]

Slow, mellow guitar lead played on the low strings. This one is EASY to play! Guitar Lesson – EP541

slow chill lead guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow and mellow (old Western sounding) lead using the lower (bass) strings. I'll explain each note and where they come from, as well as the effects used to create the sound. … [Read more...]

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