Country Blues Lead and Rhythm Guitar Composition You Can Play By Yourself – EP317
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn a country rhythm and lead (with several classic blues licks thrown in) that you can play by yourself on acoustic or electric guitar. This lesson demonstrates how to play lead over chord changes using the major pentatonic scale.
Soulful Rhythm With Fill Licks (Using only the top 3 strings) – Rhythm Guitar Lesson – EP316
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to “compliment the band” by playing a soulful rhythm with rhythm fill licks. I’ll be playing everything by using only the top 3 strings on the guitar. This was done intentionally to show how creative you can be by playing off of simple 3 note chords (triads).
Acoustic Blues Guitar Lesson – Play Acoustic Blues Guitar By Yourself – EP315
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play an acoustic blues composition that requires no accompaniment. This composition uses the classic blues “call and response” technique, allowing you to first establish a simple blues rhythm, and then create fill licks in-between the rhythm phrases. Grab an acoustic (or electric) guitar and follow along.
Minor Key Guitar Composition That You Can Play By Yourself (Playing Over 3 Chords) – EP314
In this week’s guitar lesson you’ll learn how to play a minor key composition that requires no accompaniment. This composition uses just 3 chords and can be played on acoustic or electric guitar.
Blues Phrasing Mini-Series (3 of 3) Playing The Chord Changes – EP313
This is Part 3 (of 3) of a blues phrasing mini-series for guitar. If you’ve ever struggled with not knowing what to do with all of the scales and information that you’ve learned for guitar, this mini-series will be perfect for you. It’s designed to give you some essential tools to get you improvising right […]
Blues Phrasing Mini-Series (2 of 3) Mixing the Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales – EP312
This is Part 2 (of 3) of a blues phrasing mini-series for guitar. If you’ve ever struggled with not knowing what to do with all of the scales and information that you’ve learned for guitar, this mini-series will be perfect for you. It’s designed to give you some essential tools to get you improvising right […]
Blues Phrasing Mini-Series (1 of 3) Easy 4 note box – EP311
This is Part 1 (of 3) of a blues phrasing mini-series for guitar. If you’ve ever struggled with not knowing what to do with all of the scales and information that you’ve learned for guitar, this mini-series will be perfect for you. It’s designed to give you some essential tools to get you improvising right […]
Slow, Easy Lead Guitar Lesson (How to play a melodic lead) – EP310
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a slow and easy, melodic lead that works on electric or acoustic guitar. This lesson focuses on how to create simple melodies using chord shapes as anchors.
Just 2 Chords – Play The Chord Changes Using Just 2 Chords (Rhythm and Lead) – EP309
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play the chord changes using just 2 chords. This is a great technique to use when improvising because it creates a much more melodic sounding lead. This lesson includes the rhythm breakdown as an added bonus.
Jazzy Blues Lead Guitar Lesson in a Minor Key – EP308
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play (and improvise) a blues lead (with a little jazz flavor) over a minor key jam track. You’ll be playing the chord changes over the verse, alternating between a minor and a major chord.
Slow and Easy Blues Composition That You Can Play By Yourself – Blues Guitar Tutorial – EP307
In this week’s blues guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a blues composition that is slow and easy to play and works on acoustic or electric guitar. This lesson is full of useful blues licks that you can apply to other things and as always, I’ll connect everything back to familiar scales and chords […]
David Gilmour Lead Guitar Lesson – Pink Floyd Guitar Lesson – EP306
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) style lead. This includes several classic Gilmour style bends and does require an electric guitar. I’ll show you how to use these licks when improvising.
Unplugged Style Blues Guitar Lesson (Part 2) – Play This By Yourself – EP305
This lesson is both a follow-up to EP303 Eric Clapton Blues Guitar Lesson from a few weeks ago, and works great on it’s own as a stand-alone composition. So you can play this with the jam track from EP303 as an extension to that lesson, or a solo composition. How’s that for killing 2 birds […]
Learn to play lead over the chord changes in a Western Swing style composition – Online Guitar Lessons – EP304
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play lead by playing the chord changes over a Western Swing Style Rhythm. These licks work nice over country, blues, or even rock – once you understand the principles being demonstrated you can start playing over any chord progression in any style of music.
Unplugged Style Acoustic Blues Guitar Lesson – Clapton Inspired – EP303
In this week’s acoustic blues guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play several classic Eric Clapton inspired licks from his Unplugged era. The best part is that you’ll be able to use these licks when you improvise going forward because I’ll show you how to connect them to basic chord shapes that you already know.
Slow, (and easy) melody that you can play by yourself on guitar – Learn Control – EP302
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn about control by playing a slow and easy melody that works on electric or acoustic guitar. This is a solo composition that you can play without the need for a jam track.
Rockabilly Style Rhythm and Lead Guitar Lesson – EP301
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a classic, rockabilly style rhythm and lead by learning how to play 6 and 9 chords in different positions all over the neck. By the end of this video, you’ll understand how to use 6 and 9 chords in any key and in any position.
EP300 – Over 300 In-Depth Guitar Lessons – Thank You!!!!
First, let me just say a huge THANK YOU for your continued support of ActiveMelody and helping me to reach this monumental milestone. We’re now at over 300 in-depth guitar lessons! I know it sounds clichè, but I could not have done it without you. From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU!! Instead of […]
Electric Blues Guitar Lesson that you can play by yourself – Staying in the key of a song – EP299
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a Chicago blues style lead by yourself (no accompaniment is required). Instead of focusing on “playing the chord changes” like we did in last week’s lesson (EP298), you’ll be playing in the key of the song, only focusing on the pentatonic scales.
Learn how to play the chord changes over a blues composition – No accompaniment required – EP298
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a blues lead that doesn’t require any rhythm or accompaniment because you’ll be “playing the chord changes”. This is a technique in which you outline the notes in the chords with your lead, resulting in a more sophisticated sounding solo. This is perfect for those […]
