In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a classic Blues lead that is played by staying in the key of the song and blending the Major & Minor Pentatonic scales. … [Read more...]
Open-String Licks for Your Next Guitar Jam – Guitar Lesson – EP639
Add more rhythm, harmony, and movement to your lead playing with open-string licks. In this lesson, you’ll learn several ideas using the open E and B strings, and how to work them into your own jams. … [Read more...]
Play the Blues by yourself using Triads as your guide! Guitar Lesson – EP638
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a solo Blues composition that is built around Triads. This gives you a goal to work towards (a song), while learning how to find Triads all over the fretboard. This approach works whether you're improvising or creating your own solo blues arrangements, and it's a good way to become a more musical guitarist. … [Read more...]
Fingerstyle Blues Ideas – Blues you can play by yourself on acoustic guitar – Guitar Lesson EP633
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a fingerstyle Blues composition by yourself on acoustic guitar. You'll also learn where each of the licks come from so that you can use these ideas when you improvise or compose. … [Read more...]
Blues Lick Ideas! Connecting Pentatonic patterns to chord shapes – Jam Track by Quist – EP626
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn several Blues lick ideas all coming from the Minor Pentatonic scale. The best part is that you can easily remember these licks when you see what chord shapes they're connected to. Also, the amazing jam track for this lesson was created 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 … [Read more...]
Ragtime solo Blues Guitar – no jam track needed! – Learn how to create one – Guitar Lesson – EP624
In this week's guitar lesson is a Ragtime Blues that you can play by yourself. I'll break it all down note for note and relate everything back to basic chord shapes so that you can expand on this if you want, or even create your own. … [Read more...]
Dark and Spacey acoustic guitar lead – Ambient Guitar Lesson – EP617
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a dark and spacey sounding lead on acoustic guitar (think Pink Floyd). … [Read more...]
Improvise a Ragtime Blues lead PLUS a fingerstyle rhythm – Guitar Lesson – EP613
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a Ragtime Blues lead and follow the chord changes by primarily staying in 1 position of the Major Pentatonic scale. This lesson includes a bonus fingerstyle rhythm that is tabbed out as well and sounds great on it's own. … [Read more...]
Part 2 (of 2) How one note can help build an entire solo. Guitar Lesson – EP610
This is a follow-up lesson to the Part 1 video on building a lead off a single (root) note. In this lesson, we'll continue adding elements to the root note, which include: chromatic notes, the flat 7 for the 1 chord, and the minor pentatonic scale. The Part 1 video to this 2 part series can be found here … [Read more...]
Slow, Heavy Blues – Blending the Major & Minor Pentatonic Scales – Lead Guitar Lesson – EP604
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow and heavy, Chicago style blues (on electric or acoustic guitar) by blending the notes of the Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales. … [Read more...]
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