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Visualize the Chord Changes – Improvising on guitar – EP401

improvise on guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll be 1) creating an interesting lead melody, visualizing upcoming chords to play the notes within the chords, 3) learning an awesome alternate picking exercise to help with speed … [Read more...]

How triads can change the way you play guitar – EP399

triad guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how useful triads can be when playing rhythm, lead, or harmonized leads (harmonized 3rds and 6ths). You might consider reviewing the Part 1 video from EP362 (here's a link) before viewing this lesson. … [Read more...]

Rhythm fill licks and embellishments – Bluegrass Style Guitar lesson EP394

bluegrass lead guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn several useful embellishments and fill licks to play over basic chords in first position. You'll also be learning a stand-alone bluegrass style composition that is the perfect exercise for practicing synchronization between left and right hand. … [Read more...]

Enhance your blues rhythm and lead by using dominant 7 triads – Blues Guitar Lesson – EP386

dominant 7 triads on guitar

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

when the saints go marching in guitar lesson

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

jump blues rhythm guitar lesson

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

singer song writer guitar lesson

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

pentatonic scales in blues guitar

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

chord embellishment guitar lesson

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

Jimi Hendrix Blues Guitar Lesson

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...]

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