In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn an acoustic blues in Drop D tuning, along with some general tips for playing blues in this tuning. This sounds great on acoustic or electric guitar (especially with a little overdrive and tremolo), and is a solo composition (no jam track needed). … [Read more...]
Acoustic Duet – Percussive Fingerstyle Rhythm and Slow Melodic Lead – Guitar Lesson – EP353
In this week's guitar lesson, you're getting two lessons in one. You'll learn both the rhythm (played fingerstyle) and the lead for this melodic acoustic duet. The jam tracks allow you and I to play this duet together and allow you to accompany me with either the rhythm or lead part. … [Read more...]
Ragtime Blues Guitar Lesson – Solo Composition (No Jam Track Needed) – EP351
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a ragtime blues composition by yourself on guitar (no jam track). As you play through the chords, you'll learn a fill lick that corresponds with each chord. This sounds great at any tempo and works on acoustic or electric guitar. … [Read more...]
Ragtime Blues Lead That You Can Play By Yourself – Playing the Changes Solo – Blues Lead Guitar Lesson EP348
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a ragtime blues lead by targeting chord tones and playing arpeggios. This lesson is designed to give you a more sophisticated sounding lead when improvising. This is a standalone composition that you can play by yourself, no jam track is needed. … [Read more...]
How to USE the CAGED System to play a Country Blues Melody – EP346
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to actually USE the CAGED system (in a practical sense) to play a country blues composition that requires no accompaniment. You'll be killing 2 birds with one stone by playing a really fun song, while learning the CAGED chord positions. All played using triads. This will be a break-through lesson for a lot of you. … [Read more...]
Slow, Blues Lead You Can Play By Yourself – Blues Guitar Lesson EP345
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow blues lead on electric guitar (although you could also do this on acoustic), that doesn't need a jam track. You'll be playing in the key of the song for this one, as opposed to "playing the chord changes". … [Read more...]
Minor Key Blues (B flat Minor) That You Can Play By Yourself – Blues Guitar Lesson – EP342
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a minor key blues jam in the key of B flat by yourself on guitar. This uses the classic "Call & Response" technique to allow you to jump back and forth between rhythm and lead parts. … [Read more...]
Country Blues Guitar Lesson – How to Compose and Play – EP340
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to compose and play a country blues composition on acoustic guitar. I'll walk through my thought process for alternating back and forth between chords and lead, while playing the chord changes. … [Read more...]
“It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” – Guitar Lesson and How to Compose – EP337
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a solo arrangement of the Christmas song, "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear". In addition to showing you how to play it, I'll explain my thought process for creating a solo composition like this so that you can create your own. … [Read more...]
Easy Fingerstyle Blues with a Jazzy Turnaround – Blues Guitar Lesson EP336
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a slow and easy fingerstyle blues that has a jazz style turnaround. This composition is a solo composition, so no jam track is required. As always, I'll show you how to play everything note for note and explain why everything works so that you can start applying this knowledge when you play or write your own compositions. … [Read more...]
