In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to improvise a soulful blues lead using the major and minor pentatonic scales (and mixing in a few arpeggios). … [Read more...]
Steal these soulful lead licks! – Mixing a little blues and country in this lead guitar lesson – EP473
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a slow and (easy to play) soulful lead that incorporates blues and country licks over a fun jam track. … [Read more...]
Soulful blues lead guitar tutorial – Using the major & minor pentatonic scales – Guitar Lesson – EP453
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a soulful blues lead that uses simple phrasing and comes from the major & minor pentatonic scales. Here's a link to the MicroLesson that shows how to play this song by yourself (without a jam track. … [Read more...]
Soulful, Gospel Style Rhythm and Lead Guitar Lesson – EP330
This week's guitar lesson is a good example of the CAGED system in action. You'll learn how to play chords in multiple positions on the neck and how to connect them to the pentatonic scales so that you can easily create fill licks. This lesson is full of "takeaways". … [Read more...]
Soulful Rhythm With Fill Licks (Using only the top 3 strings) – Rhythm Guitar Lesson – EP316
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to "compliment the band" by playing a soulful rhythm with rhythm fill licks. I'll be playing everything by using only the top 3 strings on the guitar. This was done intentionally to show how creative you can be by playing off of simple 3 note chords (triads). … [Read more...]
Soulful Blues Lead Guitar Lesson – Using a Major Chord and it’s Relative Minor – EP290
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a soulful blues lead over a C chord and it's relative minor (A minor). I'll explain how you can play the exact same pentatonic notes and they'll work over both of those chords, making it very easy to solo. You'll also learn how to easily integrate chord shapes into the lead to create a more melodic sounding solo. … [Read more...]
