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Using Chord Tones and Voice Leading to Guide Your Melody on Guitar – Guitar Lesson – EP546

chord tones to guide your melody

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to use chord tones to guide your melody when you improvise lead guitar. This is a different approach to lead than simply playing the notes of a scale. … [Read more...]

“Call & Response” blues lead IDEAS when improvising – Played over Just 1 Chord – Guitar Lesson EP545

blues call and response ideas for guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll pick up several new improvising ideas by learning how to play a bluesy Call & Response style lead over a jam track that has just 1 chord. … [Read more...]

Using the Major Pentatonic scale to play “Go Tell It On The Mountain” on guitar – Lesson EP544

go tell it on the mountain guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play the Christmas song, "Go Tell It On The Mountain" by using the Major Pentatonic Scale. … [Read more...]

Wabash Blues guitar lesson – Play it by yourself & improvise around the melody – Guitar Lesson EP539

wabash blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play the song "Wabash Blues" by yourself on guitar (no jam track needed). You'll also learn how this composition was created and how to improvise around the melody. … [Read more...]

How to play harmonies when soloing by finding them in basic chord shapes – Guitar Lesson – EP532

playing harmonies when improvising guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play harmonized 3rds and harmonized 6ths when you improvise lead by visualizing them in basic chord shapes. … [Read more...]

Land on THESE notes when improvising lead guitar – Guitar Lesson – EP527

land on these notes - target notes guitar

If you feel like you're just playing up and down scales when improvising lead guitar, you need to learn to stop and create phrases. This lesson gives you a guide for which notes to stop or "land" on, while using the minor pentatonic scale. … [Read more...]

It’s OK to stay where you’re at on the fretboard – Guitar Lesson – EP521

minimal movement maxium results guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to create a lead composition by staying in the same area of the fretboard and either repeating notes, or looking for a chord voicing that is in the same area. … [Read more...]

The CAGED System in Action – How to USE the CAGED System for rhythm and lead – Guitar Lesson EP519

the caged system guitar

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to use all 5 positions of the CAGED System to create a standalone composition. Also included is a brief overview of how MODES work. … [Read more...]

Country, Rock, Blues Licks for Days – This Guitar Lesson is full of licks to steal! – EP515

rock blues lead guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a rock, blues, country style lead by learning each individual lick, and where it comes from - putting everything in context. … [Read more...]

Acoustic Fingerstyle Blues – Easy thumb technique! – Guitar Lesson – EP511

fingerstyle blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a fingerstyle blues composition that you can play by yourself (no jam track) that uses an easy thumb technique in which the thumb (bass) plays directly on the beat. … [Read more...]

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