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...]
Ragtime Blues Lead That You Can Play By Yourself – Playing the Changes Solo – Blues Lead Guitar Lesson EP348
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a ragtime blues lead by targeting chord tones and playing arpeggios. This lesson is designed to give you a more sophisticated sounding lead when improvising. This is a standalone composition that you can play by yourself, no jam track is needed. … [Read more...]
Rock Rhythm Guitar Lesson – Blues Fill Licks – Improve your Timing – EP347
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a rock blues rhythm along with all of the details for the strum pattern. This is really designed to help those of you that struggle with timing - knowing when to come in, and how to stay on the beat. … [Read more...]
Slow, Blues Lead You Can Play By Yourself – Blues Guitar Lesson EP345
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow blues lead on electric guitar (although you could also do this on acoustic), that doesn't need a jam track. You'll be playing in the key of the song for this one, as opposed to "playing the chord changes". … [Read more...]
Country Blues Guitar Lesson – How to Compose and Play – EP340
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to compose and play a country blues composition on acoustic guitar. I'll walk through my thought process for alternating back and forth between chords and lead, while playing the chord changes. … [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...]
Delta Blues Guitar Composition Played Using Hybrid Picking – Acoustic Blues Guitar Lesson EP323
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to use the hybrid picking technique to play a delta blues style composition on acoustic guitar. Lots of classic Robert Johnson style licks in this one, AND you can play it by yourself. If you're already a fingerstyle player, I'll show you how to easily adapt this hybrid technique so that you can play it without using a pick. … [Read more...]
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