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The Pentatonic Cheat Code – Easy way to Find All 5 patterns of Major & Minor Pentatonic Scale – Guitar Lesson – ML135

pentatonic cheat code for guitar

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

Blues out of the E shape from the CAGED System

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

Blues guitar using the A shape from the CAGED System

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...]

The G Shape from The CAGED System – Play the Blues from the G shape – Guitar Lesson – ML132

The G Shape - guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson you'll learn how to play a standalone Blues / Bluegrass / Rockabilly style composition (1-4-5 progression) by starting with the G shape. Everything stays within the same 4 fret range. … [Read more...]

CAGED System Blues – Using the D Shape to play solo Blues – Guitar Lesson – ML131

blues out of the D shape guitar lesson

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...]

Blues Out of the C Shape – Blues by Yourself – Guitar Lesson – ML129

blues using the c shape - guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a Blues composition out of the C shape from the CAGED System. Blues you can play by yourself. … [Read more...]

Need help with your timing? Strum patterns + rhythm ideas! Lesson – ML128

need help with timing? guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play the rhythm guitar part over last week's jam track (EP625). You'll learn how to play ahead of the beat, and how to play on the beat as well as several simple rhythm embellishments! … [Read more...]

How to USE the upgraded Blues Rhythm to layer on top of a 1-4-5 progression – Guitar Lesson – ML126

blues rhythm guitar lesson

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...]

Upgrade your Blues rhythm with these chords (Jazzier structure) – Game Changer! – Guitar Lesson – ML125

upgrade your blues rhythm - guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to convert a basic sounding 12 bar Blues rhythm into a much more interesting chord structure by adding a few extra transition chords. This concept was a game changer for me! Here is the follow-up lesson to this one showing how to play this new structure over a standard 1-4-5 progression. … [Read more...]

How do I USE all of these licks to actually make music on the guitar? Guitar Lesson – ML123

how do i use guitar licks?

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to compile licks from various sources into a single lead. I'll give 4 lick idea examples from previous lessons and show how to stitch them together into a solo. Deep dives for the licks that I reference in this video: Lick 1: Triad walk-down from the 1 chord to the 4 chord Lick 2: Sus4 resolving to a major triad - (In the Part 2 video of EP619) Lick 3: Bluegrass, Norman Blake harmony Lick 4: Major Pentatonic scale from just 1 note … [Read more...]

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