In this guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a 12 bar blues shuffle with some interesting fill licks to spice things up. This composition is played solo guitar (meaning no accompaniment is required) and you can play this on electric or acoustic guitar. I'll provide all of the theory behind the notes so that you can improvise and make this your own. I'll also show you how to easily transpose this to any key. … [Read more...]
Slow Groove in B Minor (Solo Guitar Lesson) – EP155
This guitar lesson is another "no accompaniment" composition (also referred to as "solo guitar"). You won't need a jam track for this one, just a guitar and a pick. This slow groove is played in B minor and you'll be alternating between playing rhythm and lead, going back and forth between the two. Make sure to use a metronome at some point when you practice this to keep your timing in check. Your natural tendency will be to speed things up. … [Read more...]
Solo Jazz Guitar Lesson – Create a Melody With Chords – EP139
In this guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a jazz chord composition that creates a melody. This is played with no accompaniment and sounds great on it's own. You'll learn about the II V I jazz progression and how to create melodies out of chords. If you'd like to learn more about the chord numbering system (as mentioned in this video), be sure to check out last week's guitar lesson where I cover it starting at 3:00 in the Part 1 video. … [Read more...]
Slow Electric Blues Solo (With No Accompaniment) – EP094
In this guitar lesson, you'll learn step-by-step how to play a slow blues solo composition on electric guitar - with no accompaniment. That means you won't need a jam track, or a band to play along with, all you need to do is grab a guitar and a pick and play. In addition to breaking down the notes, I'll also show you where these licks come from and how you can transpose any of these elements to another key, and ultimately incorporate these into your own playing. … [Read more...]
Chuck Berry Solo Guitar Lesson – EP060
Chuck Berry is most famous for his double string solos – giving him a much fatter tone and more of a rhythmic quality. This lesson is full of Chuck Berry style double string solo licks which I hope you will learn and incorporate them into your own playing. Also, a great video to watch is called “Hail Hail Rock N Roll” which has Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Robert Cray, and Chuck playing Chuck Berry songs – a must watch for guitar players! … [Read more...]
Freddie King Style Blues Guitar Lesson – EP050
After listening to several hours of Freddie King instrumentals, I came up with this little 12 bar blues (in B) that I feel is a fair representation of some of Freddie's more common licks / approaches to playing blues. Freddie always sounds completely effortless, but you'll find that there is a lot of sweat that goes into some of these licks! I'm not saying that to discourage though, throughout the videos in this lesson, I'll break it down in detail so that even a beginner can accomplish most … [Read more...]
Slow Blues Guitar Lead Lesson (in the key of B), With No Accompaniment – EP017
I wanted to take a different approach when creating this guitar lesson. Typically I like to plan my lessons out, write out all of the parts so that everything lines up perfectly, create the tab, jam tracks, and then FINALLY create the video. However, with this lesson, I decided to just let the camera roll so that I could improvise some blues stuff in different keys, and see if anything was worth trying to teach to someone. I found about a minute and a half of a solo that I thought sounded … [Read more...]
