This lesson is a follow-up to EP099 How To Jam (Improvise) On The Guitar (Part 1), so be sure to watch that if you haven't already. This lesson provides you with an additional 8 bars worth of licks so you can now combine these 2 lessons together (EP099 and EP100) and have a decent jam session with the jam track (or with another musician). I've included a bonus version for Premium members that show's you how to play this style with no accompaniment - just a single guitar. I've included the … [Read more...]
Part 1 of 2: How to Jam (Improvise) on Guitar When Playing Lead – EP099
One of the most common emails I get from folks that are learning to play the guitar is, “Ok, so I know my chords and scales… now what?” There seems to be a mental ceiling that we all hit at some point and knowing how to improvise is a big one. In this lesson, I’ll go over the technique used in changing scales as the chords change, and show you the minor and major pentatonic boundaries that you can work with for each chord. This is part 1 of a 2 part mini series on how to jam. … [Read more...]
Ragtime Blues Guitar Lesson on Acoustic – EP096
In this guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a ragtime blues on the acoustic guitar (although you could also play this on electric if you wanted to). This lesson has several licks that contain open strings, which gives more of a ragtime / bluegrass feel. I'll show you how to transpose these licks into other keys as well. … [Read more...]
Blues Fingerstyle Lesson – Delta meets Ragtime – EP076
In this lesson, I'll show you step by step how to play an original blues composition on acoustic guitar (played fingerstyle). Fingerstyle means playing without a pick, so the focus of this lesson will be on the right hand. You can play this delta blues / ragtime composition on either acoustic or electric guitar (although it sounds better on acoustic. You need to be a premium member to access any of the lesson material associated with this week's lesson. … [Read more...]
Chet Atkins Finger Style (Blues) Guitar Lesson – EP057
This is an original composition that has several Chet Atkins licks incorporated into a bluesy format and can be played on acoustic or electric guitar. If you’re new to fingerstyle playing (without a pick) and have always wanted to learn, this would be a great lesson to start with. It will be slow at first and even frustrating, but just stick with it and don’t try to play it fast – just try to be accurate. … [Read more...]
Ragtime Blues Guitar Lesson Taught Fingerstyle: EP014
As promised here is some more acoustic blues for your arsenal. This is part 1 of 2 (the follow up to this will be showing you how to play lead on top it). This is an original composition (as far as I know anyway) that was really written and composed just so that I could teach it. The only way that I can provide tablature and jam tracks for songs is if I own the copyright, so it forces me to have to write and tab these little mini-songs… but I have to admit I sort of love doing it, so it’s not … [Read more...]
Acoustic Blues Guitar Lesson – Brian Setzer Swing Style – EP008
So the requests for more acoustic blues guitar lessons continue to come in - in fact of all the videos I've done, these acoustic blues lessons seem to be the most popular on YouTube - so I thought I'd continue to create new ones from time to time. I'm not 100% sure where this little riff came from.. I found myself lounging around the house playing this the other day and thought it would make a nice lesson (if anyone knows what this came from let me know!). Anyway, I thought it definitely had … [Read more...]
