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Enhance a boring chord progression – Rhythm fill lick ideas – EP421

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In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to enhance a boring chord progression by playing a different rhythm and adding fill licks. Lots of ideas for those of you that are learning to improvise! … [Read more...]

Simple ways to improve your blues phrasing – EP420

simple blues phrasing ideas

In this week's lesson, you'll learn some simple (and easy) techniques to enhance the quality of your blues phrasing. Remember to make room for pauses, make simple statements, and don't be afraid to repeat yourself! … [Read more...]

Complement a rhythm guitar player with melodic fills – Rhythm Ideas – EP419

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In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn several creative ideas for how you can be complimentary to a rhythm guitar player by creating simple melodic phrases using harmonized 6ths and Sus chords. … [Read more...]

How to use the Circle of Fifths (5ths) on Guitar – EP408

circle of fifths guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to use the circle of fifths to find the 1, 4, 5 chords in any key, find the relative minor of any chord, and how to create songs by understanding chord families and which chords go together. … [Read more...]

Bonus – Eric Clapton Unplugged Style – Premium Member

Eric Clapton guitar lesson

*Bonus for Premium Members - includes access to the on-screen tab viewer and the tab PDF file for this … [Read more...]

Dickey Betts style lead – Major Pentatonic Scale – EP404

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In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how add a note to the major pentatonic scale to get that classic Dickey Betts sound. Classic Dickey Betts style lead including harmonies and triplets. … [Read more...]

Rhythm fill licks and embellishments – Bluegrass Style Guitar lesson EP394

bluegrass lead guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn several useful embellishments and fill licks to play over basic chords in first position. You'll also be learning a stand-alone bluegrass style composition that is the perfect exercise for practicing synchronization between left and right hand. … [Read more...]

Slow blues by yourself – Blues guitar Lesson EP393

slow blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a solo blues composition that is full of rhythm and lead "takeaways". This sounds great on acoustic or electric guitar and requires no jam track. … [Read more...]

Using the Major Scale to Improvise – Improvise Using Happy Birthday Melody – Guitar Lesson EP390

major scale improvise guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play the major scale in all 5 positions up the neck by connecting it to the 5 chord shapes used in the CAGED System. You'll also learn how to take a basic melody (Happy Birthday) and learn how to first play the melody straight, and then learn how to improvise by adding fill licks to that melody. … [Read more...]

Pedal Steel licks for electric guitar – solo composition – EP388

pedal steel guitar licks

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to incorporate classic pedal steel licks into your leads by bending into harmonized 3rds. To make practicing these licks more fun, you'll be learning a standalone composition (no jam track needed) to practice these licks. Sounds great all by itself. … [Read more...]

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