In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a chill, Pink Floyd sounding lead and learn several useful tricks when playing over minor chords. … [Read more...]
Slow Bluesy, Jazz Lead Guitar Lesson – Easy to Play – EP460
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play an slow and melodic jazz lead that comes from the Pentatonic scales (major and minor). … [Read more...]
How to play both rhythm and lead using DADGAD tuning – Guitar Lesson – EP451
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play rhythm and lead using the alternate tuning called "DADGAD". Even though it's a different tuning, you'll still be able to use a lot of the scale patterns you already know. … [Read more...]
Relative Major and Minor Chord and Scale Relationship – EP417
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn about the relationship between a minor chord, and it's relative major chord, and how both chords share the same scale. You'll be putting everything into practice by playing an up-tempo rock, blues lead. … [Read more...]
Country blues in Drop D – Play by yourself – EP416
In this weeks' guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play an acoustic country, blues composition in drop D tuning by yourself (no jam track needed). This lesson is designed to give you ideas for licks and chord voicings that you can play in Drop D tuning. … [Read more...]
Slow and easy blues lead – focus on phrasing – Guitar Lesson EP414
This week's guitar lesson has a fantastic minor blues jam track that's provided by Quist. Here's a link to his YouTube channel. In this lesson, you'll learn a slow and easy blues lead using the D minor pentatonic scale and will learn about simple phrasing. You'll also be learning how to touch on certain chord tones to create a more melodic sounding lead. … [Read more...]
“Call & Response” Blues Guitar Lesson Blues Jam Featuring Quist – EP392
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a blues lead response using the "Call & Response". The jam track and the "Call" lead part are provided by Quist. The goal of this lesson is to learn how to play the response in a typical blues jam like this. … [Read more...]
Pedal Steel licks for electric guitar – solo composition – EP388
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to incorporate classic pedal steel licks into your leads by bending into harmonized 3rds. To make practicing these licks more fun, you'll be learning a standalone composition (no jam track needed) to practice these licks. Sounds great all by itself. … [Read more...]
Easy 2 Step System for Melodic Country Lead – Guitar Lesson – EP382
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a 2 step system of combining arpeggios and the major scale to create a melodic country lead. This lesson comes with tablature, MP3 jam tracks, and a PDF file that illustrates the 2 most common arpeggio shapes. … [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...]
