In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to improvise rhythm while in a minor key by playing through the minor chord progression triads and using notes from the minor pentatonic scale as fill licks. … [Read more...]
Jump Blues Rhythm (with fill licks) Guitar Lesson – EP383
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a jump blues rhythm with chord substitutions and blues fill licks in the key of A. If you've ever wanted to learn how to jazz up your blues, this would be a great lesson for you. … [Read more...]
Using Dissonance – Dave Rawlings Style Guitar Lesson – EP381
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a Dave Rawlings inspired acoustic lead that is played with a 2nd guitar on rhythm. Learn how to accompany another rhythm guitarist using a combination of dissonance and slow bluegrass licks. Here's a Spotify playlist that I put together with 6 songs of Dave and Gillian on guitar in this style - just 2 acoustic guitars. … [Read more...]
Soulful Blues Phrasing Ideas – Lead Blues Guitar Lesson – EP379
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a soulful blues lead, full of dynamics and phrasing ideas, all played over a jam track in A minor. We'll be looking at both the pentatonic scales and targeting chord tones. … [Read more...]
Blues lead over a Texas shuffle rhythm – Blues guitar lesson EP376
In this week's guitar lesson, we're going back to the pentatonic scales! You'll learn how to combine both major and minor pentatonic scales to create a blues lead that you can play over the included Texas shuffle rhythm jam track. This one is super fun to play! … [Read more...]
How to Use Modes (Part 2 of 2) – Modes (The Ultimate Explanation) – Guitar Lesson EP375
This is Part 2 (of 2) of a lesson series on Modes. In this lesson, you'll learn what the modes are, what they sound like, how to find them, and how to use them when you play lead guitar. This lesson includes to examples (one major and one minor) along with tablature and MP3 jam tracks. … [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...]
Using Minor and Major Pentatonic Scales in the Blues – Blues Guitar Lesson EP368
In this week's guitar lesson, I'll explain how to easily find the minor and major pentatonic scales, and how to connect those scales to basic chord shapes. You'll then learn a stand-alone blues composition that uses both of these scales so you can understand how they relate to the blues. … [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...]
Solo over the chord changes by yourself and incorporate diminished scales – Guitar Lesson EP358
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to incorporate 3 different diminished scales when playing lead over chord changes. There is no jam track needed for this, you'll be able to play lead by yourself and target chord tones, giving you a lead that works on it's own. … [Read more...]
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