In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow, dreamy sounding lead that combines triads from the CAGED System with the major scale. … [Read more...]
Slow acoustic blues lead in a minor key – EP444
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play an acoustic lead over a slow minor key jam track (provided by QUIST). Check out Quist's amazing jam track channel on YouTube or you can check out his Spotify channel … [Read more...]
Playing Harmonies: Change the way you see the neck – EP443
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to easily visualize harmonies for both rhythm and lead by connecting them to 3 basic chord shapes that you already know. … [Read more...]
Slow, rock lead ideas (over just 2 chords) – EP442
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to blend chord shapes, the minor pentatonic scale, and lydian mode to create a slow, atmospheric sounding guitar lead. … [Read more...]
Ideas for mixing the major & minor pentatonic scales. – Guitar Lesson EP437
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to mix the major and minor pentatonic scales to play the blues while learning this composition that you can play by yourself on guitar. … [Read more...]
The Ultimate Guide to the Pentatonic Scales – EP436
In this week's guitar lesson (more like a course), you'll learn everything there is to know about the pentatonic scales, where they come from, how they sound, when and how to use them. This lesson has 4 stand-alone composition practice songs, as well as 4 practice songs that you can play with jam tracks. Also includes the PDF files of the pentatonic patterns (the standard version and my 3 pattern version). … [Read more...]
Learn this BB King zone on the fretboard – B.B. King guitar lesson – EP435
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play lead guitar in the style of B.B King by learning how to blend the major and minor pentatonic scales in a few zones that he often used on the fretboard. … [Read more...]
Triad Blues – How to use triads in your blues guitar lead (also how to work in diminished) – EP432
In this week's guitar tutorial, you'll learn how to play a standalone composition that plays through the chord changes using only the top 3 strings. Includes how to incorporate diminished chords. … [Read more...]
Keep it simple! Create simple / melodic guitar leads – EP429
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a slow and melodic guitar lead that's created by thinking like a singer. Think, "sentences", stop for breaths, don't be afraid to repeat yourself, and make it memorable! … [Read more...]
Lead guitar ideas: Diminished arpeggios for that “outside” sound in your lead. Guitar Lesson EP424
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to incorporate diminished arpeggios into your lead when you improvise for that "outside" sound that you hear blues / jazz players like Robben Ford use. … [Read more...]
