In this guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a Scotty Moore influenced lead and rhythm. Scotty Moore was the classic guitar sound behind Elvis Presley in his early career and played on songs like Mystery Train, That's All Right (Mama), Blue Moon of Kentucky, and most of the Elvis classics. His style of rockabilly guitar is influenced by jazz, country, and blues and you'll hear a little of all 3 of those styles in this lesson. I've included 2 versions of the MP3 jam track (one normal tempo and … [Read more...]
Chuck Berry Solo Guitar Lesson – EP060
Chuck Berry is most famous for his double string solos – giving him a much fatter tone and more of a rhythmic quality. This lesson is full of Chuck Berry style double string solo licks which I hope you will learn and incorporate them into your own playing. Also, a great video to watch is called “Hail Hail Rock N Roll” which has Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Robert Cray, and Chuck playing Chuck Berry songs – a must watch for guitar players! … [Read more...]
Jazzy Blues Lead Guitar Lesson – Big Band Style – EP051
In this lesson you'll learn how to play a jazzy / bluesy guitar lead in the key of A. Something that you might hear an artist like Brian Setzer play. This has a big-band feel and would sound great with a horn section. … [Read more...]
Rockabilly, Carl Perkins Style Guitar Lesson – EP024
In this guitar lesson, I’ll break down this Carl Perkins inspired Rockabilly guitar solo into 2 parts. Rockabilly is sort of a hybrid between country twang and blues and can be a lot of fun to play. However, one of the challenges of playing this style of guitar is that it can be very fast. I mention in the video that I’m really not a very fast guitar picker (in the traditional sense), but I’ve managed to learn a few tricks that involve slides, pull-offs, and hammer-ons with the left hand that … [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...]
