This week's guitar lesson is a follow-up to last week (ML142) where we'll be playing Major Pentatonic Scale pattern 2 and Minor Pentatonic Scale pattern 1 in the same region of the fretboard and learning the sweet spot where they overlap. … [Read more...]
One scale. One position. Use what you already know! Don’t overcomplicate. Guitar Lesson – ML142
The minor pentatonic scale is one of the first things most guitarists learn, but are you comfortable using it? In this lesson, we stay in one position and one scale to prove that you already have everything you need to play great lead guitar. We'll cover safe target notes over a 1-4-5 jam track, fill patterns, and real licks you can use right away. … [Read more...]
Don’t Stop When You Hit a Wrong Note – Do This Instead
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn why the note you play after a mistake matters more than the mistake itself and how to use that to your advantage. The good news is that you're never more than one fret away from the right note. There is no part 2 or practice files for this week's lesson, just this information video. … [Read more...]
The Hidden Melodies Hiding Inside Your Chord Shapes – Guitar Lesson – ML140
Most guitarists treat chords and lead playing as two separate things — but they don't have to be. In this week's lesson, I'll show you how to pull harmonized lead ideas directly out of the chord shapes you already know. The result is a fuller, more musical sound that works in country, blues, just about anything. … [Read more...]
The Pentatonic Cheat Code – Easy way to Find All 5 patterns of Major & Minor Pentatonic Scale – Guitar Lesson – ML135
In this week's lesson, I'll show you a very simple way of visualizing all 5 patterns of both the Major and Minor Pentatonic scales by connecting them back to the 5 shapes from the CAGED System. … [Read more...]
Understanding the CAGED System with the Blues – Blues from the E Shape – Guitar Lesson – ML134
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play the Blues by yourself, both chords and lead licks while staying in the same 4 fret region of the fretboard, starting with the E shape. … [Read more...]
Blues out of the “A Shape” from the CAGED System – Blues Guitar Lesson – ML133
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a 1-4-5 Blues out of the A shape from the CAGED System. I'm going through each of the 5 shapes and showing you how to connect the 1, 4, and 5 chords as well as the Major and Minor Pentatonic scales in the same region of the fretboard. … [Read more...]
CAGED System Blues – Using the D Shape to play solo Blues – Guitar Lesson – ML131
In this week's guitar lesson you'll learn how to play a 1-4-5 Blues composition out of the D shape from the CAGED System. This video connects the chord shapes with the Minor Pentatonic pattern, showing how they're all connected. … [Read more...]
Guitar Goals For the New Year
When learning how to improvise on guitar, it's important to define your goals and know what to work on. Also, it's ok if you have deficits, we all do! Learn how to identify them so that you can work with them. … [Read more...]
How to USE the upgraded Blues Rhythm to layer on top of a 1-4-5 progression – Guitar Lesson – ML126
In this week's guitar lesson, I'll continue what we started in lesson ML125 by demonstrating how to layer the upgraded Blues rhythm over a standard 1-4-5 chord progression. Learn how to count it, and how to hear the extra chords. Here's a link to the previous (prerequisite) lesson to this lesson … [Read more...]
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