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
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...]
Slow & Dirty Blues Lead Guitar Lesson – Electric Blues Lead – EP387
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow blues lead in the key of G (on electric guitar). This one is full of classic blues licks (Albert King, B.B. King, etc.) and will be played over a jam track that was written by Quist! … [Read more...]
How to Improvise Around a Melody – When The Saints Go Marching In – Guitar Lesson EP385
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to improvise chords and fill licks around a recognizable melody by playing the song "When The Saints Go Marching In". This is also a standalone composition (no jam track needed) - and works on acoustic or electric guitar. … [Read more...]
Jump Blues Rhythm (with fill licks) Guitar Lesson – EP383
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a jump blues rhythm with chord substitutions and blues fill licks in the key of A. If you've ever wanted to learn how to jazz up your blues, this would be a great lesson for you. … [Read more...]
Using Dissonance – Dave Rawlings Style Guitar Lesson – EP381
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a Dave Rawlings inspired acoustic lead that is played with a 2nd guitar on rhythm. Learn how to accompany another rhythm guitarist using a combination of dissonance and slow bluegrass licks. Here's a Spotify playlist that I put together with 6 songs of Dave and Gillian on guitar in this style - just 2 acoustic guitars. … [Read more...]
Visualize Chord Shapes To Create Melodic Leads – Guitar Lesson EP377
In this week's guitar lesson, you will learn how to play a slow and easy, melodic lead by visualizing chord shapes in different neck positions. This is a different way of thinking about playing lead, that relies less on scales, instead focusing on the chords themselves. … [Read more...]
Blues lead over a Texas shuffle rhythm – Blues guitar lesson EP376
In this week's guitar lesson, we're going back to the pentatonic scales! You'll learn how to combine both major and minor pentatonic scales to create a blues lead that you can play over the included Texas shuffle rhythm jam track. This one is super fun to play! … [Read more...]
How to Use Modes (Part 1 of 2) – The Major Scale in 5 CAGED Positions – Guitar Lesson EP374
This is Part 1 of a 2 Part lesson series on modes. You'll not only learn what modes are, but you'll learn how to find them and use them when you play lead to create different moods. In this first part, we'll start with the major scale and how to find it in 5 positions on the neck (connecting it to the CAGED System). … [Read more...]
How to create a singer-songwriter fingerstyle composition on guitar – Guitar Lesson EP372
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to create a James Taylor inspired guitar composition. In addition to explaining how the chords are put together, I'll also show you how to use this percussive fingerstyle technique which adds both bass and rhythm to your chords. You can use this technique both while singing and playing guitar, or while simply playing solo guitar. … [Read more...]
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