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Heavy Electric Blues Guitar Lesson in E – EP233

Heavy Blues Guitar Lesson

In this week's guitar lesson you'll learn how to play a heavy blues lead on electric guitar (although you can play the first half on acoustic if that's all you have). You'll learn how to play the chord changes in this 12 bar blues structure. Included MP3 jam track and tablature. … [Read more...]

Solo Blues Guitar Lesson Played With Low Notes (Bottom 3 Strings) – EP231

solo blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn an easy to play solo blues composition that's played solo guitar (no accompaniment). The licks are all played on the bottom 3 strings to give you ideas for leads that you can play using lower notes. … [Read more...]

Soulful R&B Style Lead Guitar Lesson – Using the Major Pentatonic Scale – EP222

soulful r&b lead guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to improvise a soulful R&B style lead using the major pentatonic scale. I'll explain which patterns the notes come from and how to connect them back to chord shapes so that you can start to visualize leads like this when you're improvising. … [Read more...]

Soulful Blues Lead Guitar Lesson – Using Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales – EP216

Blues Lead Guitar Lesson

In this blues guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a soulful lead in the key of F#. I intentionally omitted any open string notes so that you can transpose any of these licks to other keys. In fact, this lesson comes with 2 MP3 jam tracks, one is in the key that is taught (F#), but the other is in G# so you can practice playing everything in a different key on your own. You should be able to do that by the end of this lesson! … [Read more...]

Blues Lead Guitar Lesson with Piano Accompaniment – EP215

blues lead guitar lesson

This week's guitar lesson is a blues lead (with rhythm elements thrown in) that has only a piano as accompaniment. It's always great practice to learn how to accompany a single instrument like this because it forces you to listen and compliment the other instrument. It's a completely different dynamic than playing with a full band! … [Read more...]

Solo Blues Rhythm and Lead (No Accompaniment) – EP198

blues guitar lesson

In this guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a solo blues composition in the key of E. This works on both electric and acoustic guitar. This is another lessons that uses the "call and response" technique, going back and forth between playing rhythm and lead licks, and you'll learn how to improvise in this style. … [Read more...]

Slow R&B Style Lead Guitar Lesson – “Lovely Lisa” – EP174

r&b lead guitar lesson

This guitar lesson is a slow, melodic lead played over an R&B style rhythm. This rhythm is made up of 4 chords in the key of A, with an interesting sounding F chord thrown in to keep things interesting. This lesson is designed to show you how to play the scale of the song key (not changing scales to match the chords). Most of what you'll be playing will be the major pentatonic scale, however, you'll switch to the minor pentatonic scale over that 4th chord (the F). … [Read more...]

Mick Taylor Style Lead – Advanced and Easy – EP135

mick taylor blues guitar lesson

In this guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a lead on electric guitar that was inspired by the great Mick Taylor. Mick Taylor is a very underrated guitar player and has made significant contributions to the world of rock and blues, playing with the great John Mayall and The Rolling Stones. I wanted to create an electric lead guitar lesson that was accessible to everyone, so the first time through the solo is more advanced and the second time through is much easier. … [Read more...]

Jimmie Vaughan Style Lead Guitar Lesson – EP109

Jimmie Vaughan Guitar Lesson

In this guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a Jimmie Vaughan style lead using a hybrid picking technique. Although Jimmie primarily plays with only his fingers, this style allows you to use both the pick and fingers to get a similar tone. This lesson also includes 2 versions of the MP3 jam track, one in the key of E, and one in the key of G, so that you can capo the 3rd fret and play those same licks in a higher position (the way that Jimmie often does). … [Read more...]

Rock / Country Lead Guitar Lesson (Part 2 of 2) – EP092

In this guitar lesson, learn how to play the lead part of the rock / country mini series. This is part 2 (of 2). This is a great lesson to learn how to change scales as the chords change, which is more prominent in country lead. Click here if you'd like to learn part 1 - rock country rhythm guitar lesson. … [Read more...]

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