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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

improve your speed on guitar lesson

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...]

Minor Pentatonic Blues – Play this by yourself using just 1 position – Guitar Lesson – EP586

minor pentatonic blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a minor pentatonic scale blues by yourself (no jam track needed). This first half is all played using only minor pentatonic scale pattern 1, limiting your options. … [Read more...]

Why was this guitar lesson so popular? Acoustic Country Blues (REBOOT) – Now includes Part 2 – EP583

acoustic country blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play an acoustic country blues composition (and older MicroLesson that has been very popular on all social media platforms). You can play this by yourself and will learn where it all comes from so that you can use these ideas when you improvise. As an added bonus, I've written a 2nd half that follows the same chord structure as the first half. Available (with TAB and instruction) to Premium Members. … [Read more...]

Country Blues guitar composition By Yourself – while outlining the changes. Guitar Lesson – EP580

country blues guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a country blues guitar composition by yourself on acoustic guitar (no jam track needed). To make it work on it's own, you'll need to outline the chord changes by the notes you choose. Explained in the video! … [Read more...]

Use chord shapes from The CAGED System to play solo Blues guitar – Blues guitar lesson – EP578

the caged system guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a solo blues composition that gives you something really fun to play, while providing a great way to practice chord positions from The CAGED System. … [Read more...]

Acoustic 12 bar blues played with a single drum track. Guitar Lesson – EP575

acoustic blues with drum track

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play an acoustic blues with no other instrumentation other than a single drum track. Playing along with only a drum has many advantages (discussed in the video). … [Read more...]

Call & Response Blues that you can play by yourself on guitar – Blues Guitar Lesson – EP573

call & response blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a "Call and response" style blues composition on guitar by yourself (no jam track needed). … [Read more...]

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