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Acoustic Jam: Acoustic lead inspired by Jerry Garcia – Guitar Lesson EP595

jerry garcia style lead guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn an acoustic lead over a basic chord structure that was inspired by Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead). Learn to play over the chord changes … [Read more...]

Slow country lead using the CAGED System – Guitar Lesson – EP594

slow country lead guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a slow, country style lead that you'll be able to easily visualize by relating it to the CAGED System. This lead has lots of open space and lost of classic, pedal steel licks. … [Read more...]

Lead with Arpeggios: finding the right notes to match the chord – Guitar Lesson – EP593

lead with guitar with arpeggios

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to use arpeggios to outline the notes of your lead, giving you safe notes to land on. We'll look at the Dominant 7 arpeggio in 4 of the 5 CAGED System positions. … [Read more...]

Easy way to visualize harmonized guitar leads – Guitar Lesson – EP592

easy harmonies on guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to easily find harmonized 3rds and 6ths by seeing where they live inside of chord shapes. … [Read more...]

Blues chord ideas that you may not know about! Guitar Lesson – EP591

blues chord ideas

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn several chord ideas that you can use in your Blues rhythm or lead. Enjoy! … [Read more...]

Mixolydian Scale and dancing with your fingers! Guitar Lesson – EP589

mixolydian scale on guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to use the Mixolydian scale to play over a 2 chord vamp. I'll show you how to play up and down that scale quickly by "dancing with your fingers". … [Read more...]

Minor chord magic! Build incredible sounds by playing minor chords on top of Major chords – Guitar Lesson EP587

create incredible sounds with minor chords

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play minor chords, 6 chords, 9 chords, and Major 7 chords all by using 3 minor shapes. This can absolutely change the way you sound when you play! … [Read more...]

Old School, Instrumental Ballad – 7 ideas you can use when you improvise – Guitar Lesson – EP585

instrumental ballad guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play the lead over an old school, instrumental ballad. There are 7 ideas that I'll call out during this lesson that you can use when you improvise. … [Read more...]

Learn a percussive fingerstyle rhythm and a blues lead in this minor key jam – Guitar Lesson – EP584

fingerstyle rhythm guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn the how to play both the rhythm and the lead tracks for a minor key blues composition. The rhythm track using a percussive fingerstyle technique that makes playing a solo rhythm sound so full (includes the bass, percussion, and melody). In addition, you'll learn a bluesy lead to play on top of the rhythm track. The jam tracks allow you to practice either rhythm or lead parts. … [Read more...]

THIS is how to USE the CAGED System to play lead over chord changes – Guitar Lesson – EP582

how to use CAGED system

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play lead over a 1-4-5 chord progression in all 5 positions on the neck by using the chord positions of the CAGED System. … [Read more...]

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