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 […]
Learn a slow, soulful blues rhythm and lead in a blues trio – Blues Guitar Lesson EP297
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a slow (and relatively easy) blues rhythm and lead over a trio backing track (just bass and drums). Playing in a trio forces you to be on your game as you’re covering all of the rhythm and lead parts in real time. This lesson also […]
Fingerstyle Ragtime Blues Guitar Lesson – Play By Yourself – EP296
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a ragtime blues composition that’s played fingerstyle. You can do this one by yourself, no accompaniment is required. In addition to learning how to play the song, you’ll learn the 2 main thumb patterns used in fingerstyle compositions, and how they relate to the chords.
Ragtime Blues Lead on Acoustic Guitar – Acoustic Blues Guitar Lesson – EP295
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play lead on acoustic guitar over a ragtime piano rhythm backing track. Even though the backing track has lots of chords, I’ll show you an easy way to improvise a lead over it.
Funky Minor Key Blues Guitar Lesson – Ideas for Playing “Outside The Box” – EP294
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to spice up your rhythm and lead in a funky, minor key blues composition by learning to play “outside the box” (which means including something unexpected). This is much more common in jazz, but sounds just as good in the blues.
Minor Key, R&B Style Composition – Using Call & Response Technique – Solo Guitar Lesson EP293
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a fun, minor key R&B style composition on acoustic guitar that is designed to give some different ideas for approaching rhythm. You’ll be using the “Call & Response” style technique to alternate back and forth between rhythm and lead.
Have a Blues Jam Session By Yourself on Guitar (Just 4 Chords) – Blues Guitar Lesson EP292
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play both rhythm and lead in a solo jam session (no accompaniment needed). You’ll also learn a right-hand strum technique and how to play the Mixolydian scale when soloing. Everything is created with just 4 basic chords (E, Bm, A, and G)..
(Easy) Slow, Country Guitar Lesson – Learn to play the chord changes – EP291
In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a slow (and easy) country lead by playing the chord changes. This lesson is designed to show you a different way of playing lead, by focusing on chords and arpeggios instead of scales. This technique works especially well over slow songs where the band stays […]
