In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play lead on acoustic guitar over a ragtime piano rhythm backing track. Even though the backing track has lots of chords, I'll show you an easy way to improvise a lead over it. … [Read more...]
Funky Minor Key Blues Guitar Lesson – Ideas for Playing “Outside The Box” – EP294
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to spice up your rhythm and lead in a funky, minor key blues composition by learning to play "outside the box" (which means including something unexpected). This is much more common in jazz, but sounds just as good in the blues. … [Read more...]
(Easy) Slow, Country Guitar Lesson – Learn to play the chord changes – EP291
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow (and easy) country lead by playing the chord changes. This lesson is designed to show you a different way of playing lead, by focusing on chords and arpeggios instead of scales. This technique works especially well over slow songs where the band stays on each chord for extended periods of time. … [Read more...]
Soulful Blues Lead Guitar Lesson – Using a Major Chord and it’s Relative Minor – EP290
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a soulful blues lead over a C chord and it's relative minor (A minor). I'll explain how you can play the exact same pentatonic notes and they'll work over both of those chords, making it very easy to solo. You'll also learn how to easily integrate chord shapes into the lead to create a more melodic sounding solo. … [Read more...]
Learn to play the chord changes in this Western Swing guitar lesson – EP287
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a Western Swing style lead by playing the chord changes (changing scales to match the chords). This is designed to teach you how to play more melodic and interesting sounding leads when improvising. … [Read more...]
Learn “O Holy Night” on Electric Guitar – Christmas Guitar Lesson – EP285
In this week's guitar lesson, you're going to learn how to play the classic Christmas melody to "O Holy Night" on electric guitar. As always, I'll explain the "why" behind the notes so that you can create your own compositions like this. … [Read more...]
Slow, Dark Blues Lead Played on Acoustic Guitar – Blues Guitar Lesson EP282
In this week's guitar lesson you'll learn to play a slow, dark lead on acoustic guitar (although this could be played on electric as well). I'll show you a few easy ways to connect notes to chord shapes so that you can start improvising in this style. You'll also hear several classic Mark Knopfler style blues licks in this. … [Read more...]
Use chords to create a slow and melodic lead – Guitar Lesson EP280
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a melodic lead by using chords (instead of scales). By playing out of these chord shapes and targeting chord tones, you will be creating much more meaningful sounding solos when you write and improvise. The best part is that it's relatively easy to do. Lastly, this technique takes advantage of the CAGED System (which was covered in lessons EP273 and EP275). … [Read more...]
Country Lead Guitar Lesson – Learn how to play the chord changes – EP278
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a fun, country lead by playing the chord changes. That means you switch scales every time the chord changes. This is a different way of thinking about playing lead in which you connect licks to chord shapes as opposed to focusing on scales. The MP3 jam track for this lesson is available in 2 tempos (normal speed and slow). … [Read more...]
Rock, Blues Guitar Lead – Mixing the Major & Minor Pentatonic Scales – EP276
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a rock, blues lead in the key of C by mixing both major and minor pentatonic scales. I'll explain the theory behind each of the licks so that you can use them going forward when you improvise (in any key). … [Read more...]
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