In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to easily find the Mixolydian scale by connecting it to the chord shapes from CAGED. You'll also learn how to blend it with the minor pentatonic scale to create a bluesy lead that works well over just about anything. Your practice song for this will be a Bluegrass lead style. … [Read more...]
Using the Major Scale to Improvise – Improvise Using Happy Birthday Melody – Guitar Lesson EP390
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play the major scale in all 5 positions up the neck by connecting it to the 5 chord shapes used in the CAGED System. You'll also learn how to take a basic melody (Happy Birthday) and learn how to first play the melody straight, and then learn how to improvise by adding fill licks to that melody. … [Read more...]
Slow & Dirty Blues Lead Guitar Lesson – Electric Blues Lead – EP387
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow blues lead in the key of G (on electric guitar). This one is full of classic blues licks (Albert King, B.B. King, etc.) and will be played over a jam track that was written by Quist! … [Read more...]
Enhance your blues rhythm and lead by using dominant 7 triads – Blues Guitar Lesson – EP386
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn several dominant 7 triads in various positions that you can easily add to your blues rhythm or lead. You'll learn how to connect these to basic chord shapes so that you can easily find them and play them over any chord / key. … [Read more...]
Visualize Chord Shapes To Create Melodic Leads – Guitar Lesson EP377
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...]
