In this week's guitar lesson, you will learn how to play a slow and easy, melodic lead by visualizing chord shapes in different neck positions. This is a different way of thinking about playing lead, that relies less on scales, instead focusing on the chords themselves. … [Read more...]
How to Use Modes (Part 1 of 2) – The Major Scale in 5 CAGED Positions – Guitar Lesson EP374
This is Part 1 of a 2 Part lesson series on modes. You'll not only learn what modes are, but you'll learn how to find them and use them when you play lead to create different moods. In this first part, we'll start with the major scale and how to find it in 5 positions on the neck (connecting it to the CAGED System). … [Read more...]
Secondary Dominant Chords – What They Are And How To Use Them – Guitar Lesson EP370
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn what secondary dominant chords are and how they can be used when writing chord arrangements or when improvising lead. I'll also show you how to easily identify them by connecting them to basic chord shapes that you already know. … [Read more...]
Acoustic Blues Lead – Playing the Chord Changes – EP369
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a more melodic sounding blues lead by targeting notes within the chords... "playing the changes". This jam track is just 2 guitars (rhythm and lead) and I'll show you how to play both parts so you can play this with another guitarist. … [Read more...]
Chord Embellishments – How to make basic chords sound better – EP367
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to take a simple chord progression with 3 chords, and make it sound more interesting by learning several must-know embellishments around those chord shapes. You can use these embellishments when jamming with others, or for when playing by yourself. … [Read more...]
Rhythm Fill Ideas for Guitar – Rhythm Guitar Lesson – EP364
In this week's guitar lesson, I'll give you some ideas for rhythm fills that you can incorporate into your rhythm playing. You'll be playing the chord changes over a slow and soulful jam track by adding bluesy fill licks. … [Read more...]
How To Harmonize Using 3rd and 6th Intervals – Harmonized Lead Guitar Lesson – EP363
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play both the major scale and a bluesy version of the major scale (mixolydian mode) by using harmonized 3rd and harmonized 6th intervals. You'll be able to not only understand where these harmonies come from, but how to connect them back to familiar chord shapes that you already know so that you can start using them when you improvise. … [Read more...]
The Essential Triad Guitar Lesson – Using The Top 3 Strings Only – EP362
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how easy it is to play rhythm (and lead) by only concentrating on triads (simple 3 note chords). Everything in this lesson is played on the top 3 strings, making it easy to concentrate on learning (less variables). You'll learn the major, minor, dominant 7, 6 and 9 chord voicings in 3 positions on the neck. … [Read more...]
Combine the Pentatonic Scales with the CAGED System to play blues – Guitar Lesson EP356
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to combine the major and minor pentatonic scales with chord shapes from the CAGED System. You'll learn how to easily jump from the major to the minor pentatonic scale in three main neck positions AND how to play the 1, 4, 5 chords in those various positions. This lesson comes with 3 diagram PDFs, tablature, and the MP3 jam track so that you can practice everything that you learn. … [Read more...]
Slow, Soulful Blues Lead Guitar Lesson (Easy) – Played Fingerstyle – EP349
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to improvise a slow and soulful lead over a non-conventional jam track (this is not your typical 1, 4, 5 chord format). You'll be using the G minor scale to play over the entire jam track track and will be playing this fingerstyle to slow things down a bit. … [Read more...]
