In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn several dominant 7 triads in various positions that you can easily add to your blues rhythm or lead. You'll learn how to connect these to basic chord shapes so that you can easily find them and play them over any chord / key. … [Read more...]
How to Improvise Around a Melody – When The Saints Go Marching In – Guitar Lesson EP385
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to improvise chords and fill licks around a recognizable melody by playing the song "When The Saints Go Marching In". This is also a standalone composition (no jam track needed) - and works on acoustic or electric guitar. … [Read more...]
Jump Blues Rhythm (with fill licks) Guitar Lesson – EP383
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a jump blues rhythm with chord substitutions and blues fill licks in the key of A. If you've ever wanted to learn how to jazz up your blues, this would be a great lesson for you. … [Read more...]
How to create a singer-songwriter fingerstyle composition on guitar – Guitar Lesson EP372
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to create a James Taylor inspired guitar composition. In addition to explaining how the chords are put together, I'll also show you how to use this percussive fingerstyle technique which adds both bass and rhythm to your chords. You can use this technique both while singing and playing guitar, or while simply playing solo guitar. … [Read more...]
Using Minor and Major Pentatonic Scales in the Blues – Blues Guitar Lesson EP368
In this week's guitar lesson, I'll explain how to easily find the minor and major pentatonic scales, and how to connect those scales to basic chord shapes. You'll then learn a stand-alone blues composition that uses both of these scales so you can understand how they relate to the blues. … [Read more...]
Chord Embellishments – How to make basic chords sound better – EP367
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to take a simple chord progression with 3 chords, and make it sound more interesting by learning several must-know embellishments around those chord shapes. You can use these embellishments when jamming with others, or for when playing by yourself. … [Read more...]
Jimi Hendrix Blues Style Guitar Lesson – EP365
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a Jimi Hendrix style rhythm and lead over a stripped down jam track (just bass and drums). Incorporate some of these classic Hendrix licks into your playing when you improvise. … [Read more...]
Rhythm Fill Ideas for Guitar – Rhythm Guitar Lesson – EP364
In this week's guitar lesson, I'll give you some ideas for rhythm fills that you can incorporate into your rhythm playing. You'll be playing the chord changes over a slow and soulful jam track by adding bluesy fill licks. … [Read more...]
The Essential Triad Guitar Lesson – Using The Top 3 Strings Only – EP362
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how easy it is to play rhythm (and lead) by only concentrating on triads (simple 3 note chords). Everything in this lesson is played on the top 3 strings, making it easy to concentrate on learning (less variables). You'll learn the major, minor, dominant 7, 6 and 9 chord voicings in 3 positions on the neck. … [Read more...]
Funky Blues Rhythm and Lead Guitar Lesson – EP359
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a funky rhythm and lead over a minor key jam track. This is the same jam track that we used for the April 2020 Site Member Challenge - Check out the consolidated posts from site members and see how they approached it here: (Page 1, Page 2, and Page 3). Keep in mind, everyone that submitted recorded their own versions before I did, so you can see the many different ways that this jam track might be approached! Also, (as always) thanks to Don … [Read more...]
