In this week's blues guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a blues composition that is slow and easy to play and works on acoustic or electric guitar. This lesson is full of useful blues licks that you can apply to other things and as always, I'll connect everything back to familiar scales and chords so that you can easily transpose and play these licks in anything. … [Read more...]
Unplugged Style Blues Guitar Lesson (Part 2) – Play This By Yourself – EP305
This lesson is both a follow-up to EP303 Eric Clapton Blues Guitar Lesson from a few weeks ago, and works great on it's own as a stand-alone composition. So you can play this with the jam track from EP303 as an extension to that lesson, or a solo composition. How's that for killing 2 birds with one stone? :) … [Read more...]
Slow, (and easy) melody that you can play by yourself on guitar – Learn Control – EP302
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn about control by playing a slow and easy melody that works on electric or acoustic guitar. This is a solo composition that you can play without the need for a jam track. … [Read more...]
Electric Blues Guitar Lesson that you can play by yourself – Staying in the key of a song – EP299
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a Chicago blues style lead by yourself (no accompaniment is required). Instead of focusing on "playing the chord changes" like we did in last week's lesson (EP298), you'll be playing in the key of the song, only focusing on the pentatonic scales. … [Read more...]
Learn how to play the chord changes over a blues composition – No accompaniment required – EP298
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a blues lead that doesn't require any rhythm or accompaniment because you'll be "playing the chord changes". This is a technique in which you outline the notes in the chords with your lead, resulting in a more sophisticated sounding solo. This is perfect for those of you that feel stuck in the pentatonic scales. … [Read more...]
Fingerstyle Ragtime Blues Guitar Lesson – Play By Yourself – EP296
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a ragtime blues composition that's played fingerstyle. You can do this one by yourself, no accompaniment is required. In addition to learning how to play the song, you'll learn the 2 main thumb patterns used in fingerstyle compositions, and how they relate to the chords. … [Read more...]
Minor Key, R&B Style Composition – Using Call & Response Technique – Solo Guitar Lesson EP293
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a fun, minor key R&B style composition on acoustic guitar that is designed to give some different ideas for approaching rhythm. You'll be using the "Call & Response" style technique to alternate back and forth between rhythm and lead. … [Read more...]
Have a Blues Jam Session By Yourself on Guitar (Just 4 Chords) – Blues Guitar Lesson EP292
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play both rhythm and lead in a solo jam session (no accompaniment needed). You'll also learn a right-hand strum technique and how to play the Mixolydian scale when soloing. Everything is created with just 4 basic chords (E, Bm, A, and G).. … [Read more...]
Learn a Jazzy, Blues Composition That You Can Play By Yourself on Guitar – Blues Guitar Lesson – EP289
In this week's lesson, you'll learn a solo blues composition (no accompaniment required) that isn't the typical 1, 4, 5 blues format. This has a jazzy chord arrangement to keep things interesting and give you ideas for other ways to play the blues (similar to Lonnie Johnson's approach). This also uses the "call & response" technique to allow you to alternate back and forth between chords and lead. Los of takeaways in this one! … [Read more...]
Play a 12 Bar Blues Composition By Yourself on Guitar (No Accompaniment) Blues Guitar Lesson – EP288
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a classic, 12 bar blues composition that you can play by yourself on electric or acoustic guitar. This uses the "call & response" technique which allows you to easily go back and forth between rhythm and lead licks. As always, I'll break everything down note for note and explain the "why" behind the notes so that you can start using these licks when you improvise. … [Read more...]
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