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April 10, 2020 CAGED System Pentatonic Scale
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Combine the Pentatonic Scales with the CAGED System to play blues – Guitar Lesson EP356

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to combine the major and minor pentatonic scales with chord shapes from the CAGED System. You’ll learn how to easily jump from the major to the minor pentatonic scale in three main neck positions AND how to play the 1, 4, 5 chords in those various positions. […]

April 3, 2020 easy country lead guitar lesson
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Slow Country Lead Guitar Lesson – Pedal Steel Licks and Harmonies – EP355

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a slow and easy country lead that is full of pedal steel licks (bends) and harmonized 6ths. Even at full tempo this one is easy to follow along with and easy to play. Learn how to use these licks in your lead when you improvise.

March 27, 2020 Drop D tuning blues guitar
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Drop D Blues – Acoustic Solo Blues in Drop D Tuning – Blues Guitar Lesson EP354

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn an acoustic blues in Drop D tuning, along with some general tips for playing blues in this tuning. This sounds great on acoustic or electric guitar (especially with a little overdrive and tremolo), and is a solo composition (no jam track needed).

March 20, 2020 acoustic duet guitar lesson
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Acoustic Duet – Percussive Fingerstyle Rhythm and Slow Melodic Lead – Guitar Lesson – EP353

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’re getting two lessons in one. You’ll learn both the rhythm (played fingerstyle) and the lead for this melodic acoustic duet. The jam tracks allow you and I to play this duet together and allow you to accompany me with either the rhythm or lead part.

March 13, 2020 jazzy blues guitar lesson
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Jazzy, Blues Lead Guitar Lesson in B Flat (Includes “Out of the box” Licks) – EP352

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn a blues lead that’s played over a B flat shuffle which includes several “out of the box” type licks, designed to make your lead sound more sophisticated. This is perfect for those of you that are looking to add a little more jazz to your blues leads.

March 6, 2020 ragtime blues guitar lesson
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Ragtime Blues Guitar Lesson – Solo Composition (No Jam Track Needed) – EP351

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a ragtime blues composition by yourself on guitar (no jam track). As you play through the chords, you’ll learn a fill lick that corresponds with each chord. This sounds great at any tempo and works on acoustic or electric guitar.

February 28, 2020 alt-country guitar lesson
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Alt-Country Style Lead Guitar Lesson – EP350

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play an Alt-Country (Alternative Country) style lead with a lot of open space. The first half is very slow and easy to play, basically strumming arpeggiating chords. The second half has more of a country, blues style lead.

February 21, 2020 slow soulful blues lead guitar lesson
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Slow, Soulful Blues Lead Guitar Lesson (Easy) – Played Fingerstyle – EP349

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to improvise a slow and soulful lead over a non-conventional jam track (this is not your typical 1, 4, 5 chord format). You’ll be using the G minor scale to play over the entire jam track track and will be playing this fingerstyle to slow things down […]

February 14, 2020 ragtime blues guitar lesson
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Ragtime Blues Lead That You Can Play By Yourself – Playing the Changes Solo – Blues Lead Guitar Lesson EP348

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a ragtime blues lead by targeting chord tones and playing arpeggios. This lesson is designed to give you a more sophisticated sounding lead when improvising. This is a standalone composition that you can play by yourself, no jam track is needed.

February 7, 2020 rock blues guitar lesson
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Rock Rhythm Guitar Lesson – Blues Fill Licks – Improve your Timing – EP347

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a rock blues rhythm along with all of the details for the strum pattern. This is really designed to help those of you that struggle with timing – knowing when to come in, and how to stay on the beat.

January 31, 2020 country blues guitar lesson
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How to USE the CAGED System to play a Country Blues Melody – EP346

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to actually USE the CAGED system (in a practical sense) to play a country blues composition that requires no accompaniment. You’ll be killing 2 birds with one stone by playing a really fun song, while learning the CAGED chord positions. All played using triads. This will be […]

January 24, 2020 slow blues guitar lesson
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Slow, Blues Lead You Can Play By Yourself – Blues Guitar Lesson EP345

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a slow blues lead on electric guitar (although you could also do this on acoustic), that doesn’t need a jam track. You’ll be playing in the key of the song for this one, as opposed to “playing the chord changes”.

January 17, 2020 how to play chord changes guitar
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Connecting Chord Shapes to the Pentatonic Scales – Useful when playing the changes – Guitar Lesson EP344

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to visualize the chord changes when playing lead, by connecting pentatonic patterns to chord shapes. This uses the same jam track from last week (EP343)

January 10, 2020 rhythm guitar lesson
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Improvising Rhythm Guitar Lesson – Using the CAGED System – EP343

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll up your rhythm game by learning how to improvise various rhythm parts using the CAGED System. This also makes use of triads and harmonized 3rds in multiple neck positions.

January 3, 2020 minor key blues guitar lesson
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Minor Key Blues (B flat Minor) That You Can Play By Yourself – Blues Guitar Lesson – EP342

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a minor key blues jam in the key of B flat by yourself on guitar. This uses the classic “Call & Response” technique to allow you to jump back and forth between rhythm and lead parts.

December 27, 2019 rock blues lead guitar lesson
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Rock, Blues Lead Guitar Lesson – Using the Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales – EP341

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a rock, blues lead that uses both minor and major pentatonic scales. I’ll explain my thought process for choosing either the major or minor path when playing a solo.

December 20, 2019 country blues guitar lesson
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Country Blues Guitar Lesson – How to Compose and Play – EP340

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to compose and play a country blues composition on acoustic guitar. I’ll walk through my thought process for alternating back and forth between chords and lead, while playing the chord changes.

December 13, 2019 b.b. king style guitar lesson
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B.B. King Inspired Lead Guitar Lesson with a Key Change – EP339

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a slow and easy, B.B. King style lead by using the major pentatonic scale. I’ll show you my trick for finding the major pentatonic scale triangle so that you can easily translate these licks to any key. The jam track for this lesson has a […]

December 6, 2019 Rhythm Guitar Lesson
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Creative Rhythm Ideas – Rhythm Fill Licks plus a Simple B.B. King Style Lead – Guitar Lesson EP338

In this week’s guitar lesson you’ll learn several creative rhythm ideas to play over a soulful jam track. I’ll show you several of my “go-to” rhythm fill lick ideas so that you can start using them when you play. I’ve also included a simple B.B. King style lead that uses what I refer to as […]

November 29, 2019 learn it came upon a midnight clear on guitar
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“It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” – Guitar Lesson and How to Compose – EP337

In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a solo arrangement of the Christmas song, “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”. In addition to showing you how to play it, I’ll explain my thought process for creating a solo composition like this so that you can create your own.


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