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Improvise a Ragtime Blues lead PLUS a fingerstyle rhythm – Guitar Lesson – EP613

Ragtime Blues lead guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a Ragtime Blues lead and follow the chord changes by primarily staying in 1 position of the Major Pentatonic scale. This lesson includes a bonus fingerstyle rhythm that is tabbed out as well and sounds great on it's own. … [Read more...]

Classic Blues by yourself (on acoustic or electric guitar) – Full of Blues lick ideas – Guitar Lesson EP612

classic blues by yourself on guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a stand-alone blues composition that requires no jam track, just grab any guitar in standard tuning and follow along with this classic Blues in the key of A. Lots of licks to steal in this one! … [Read more...]

Country Blues by yourself! (seeing the chord shapes makes this easier) – Guitar Lesson – EP609

country blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a Country, Blues style composition by yourself (no jam track needed). Every lick / phrase that you'll learn will be connected to a basic chord shape, making it easier to visualize what's going on. … [Read more...]

Connecting double stop harmonies to chord shapes! Guitar Lesson – EP606

connect double stop harmonies on guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play beautiful harmonies (harmonized 3rds and harmonized 6ths) by connecting them to the chord shapes - much easier to visualize this way. … [Read more...]

Blues Guitar by Yourself – Fingerstyle Blues Guitar Lesson – EP599

fingerstyle blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a fingerstyle blues composition that sounds great on it's own (no accompaniment needed). I'll explain which chord shapes all of the notes come from so that you can learn to improvise in this style. … [Read more...]

Swiss Army Knife of Guitar Rhythm Ideas. Useful when improvising rhythm guitar – Guitar Lesson – EP598

rhythm guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn several ideas that are useful when playing rhythm guitar. We'll explore an idea from each of the 5 CAGED System positions. … [Read more...]

O Little Town of Bethlehem – Easy Solo Guitar Composition – Guitar Lesson EP597

o little town of bethlehem guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play the Christmas song, "O Little Town of Bethlehem" on acoustic guitar by yourself (no jam track needed). … [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...]

Improve your speed and accuracy with this fun Bluegrass Rag. Guitar Lesson – EP590

bluegrass guitar rag

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a standalone Bluegrass Rag composition that was written to help you improve your speed and accuracy by the inclusion of several short lead runs that are played using alternate picking. It's a lot more fun to have a song to work towards than to sit and practice boring finger exercises! … [Read more...]

Ideas for making a blues chord structure sound more interesting. Guitar Lesson – EP588

blues chord structure for guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn several ideas for making a standard blues chord progression sound more interesting, all while learning a blues composition that you can play by yourself. … [Read more...]

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