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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

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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...]

Simple Triad idea to improve your Blues lead on guitar – Blues guitar lesson – EP537

simple triad ideas for blues guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to incorporate a few simple triad shapes into your blues lead to create a more sophisticated lead sound. You'll be targeting those chord tones as the chords pass by. … [Read more...]

Jazz up your Blues with these rhythm ideas! Jazz / blues guitar lesson – EP536

jazz up your blues guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to convert a standard blues composition into a much jazzier sounding progression (for both rhythm and lead) by working in the 2-5-1 chord progression in various ways. … [Read more...]

Learn this Blues Lead that you can play by yourself by targeting chord tones – Guitar Lesson EP535

blues lead guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a classic blues lead (with a few diminished lines) that you can play by yourself. You'll learn how to connect these notes back to the chords that they come from. … [Read more...]

Simple ideas for playing lead over chord changes – Guitar Lesson EP533

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In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn several simple ideas for playing lead guitar over chord changes, using a combination of the pentatonic scales and basic chord shapes. … [Read more...]

Land on THESE notes when improvising lead guitar – Guitar Lesson – EP527

land on these notes - target notes guitar

If you feel like you're just playing up and down scales when improvising lead guitar, you need to learn to stop and create phrases. This lesson gives you a guide for which notes to stop or "land" on, while using the minor pentatonic scale. … [Read more...]

Using the CAGED System to play over chord changes – EP526

using the caged system guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, we'll be tying together the previous 2 lessons (EP524 and EP525) and using that information to demonstrate using the CAGED system to play over chord changes. … [Read more...]

Minor Blues Lead Ideas – Use these ideas in your leads when improvising – Guitar Lesson EP517

minor blues lead guitar ideas

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn several minor key lead ideas. You'll learn how to connect them to chord shapes so they can be used in any key going forward. … [Read more...]

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