Step One: Ask The Right Questions
Your acoustic guitar playing can benefit from jazz.
This time we’re going to discover five cool but deceptively easy riffs that any beginner should be able to get their fingers around.
This lesson is about stepping out of your comfort zone. The goal here is to play with intention, delivering every note with confidence.
Step One: Ask The Right Questions
Your acoustic guitar playing can benefit from jazz.
Sometimes lyrics come easily. And sometimes they don't. And that's when it's most helpful to have a lyric plan.
Open chords, we all love them! In this lesson you'll learn ten movable open chord shapes.
This lesson covers a topic that I don't see enough guitar teachers talking about.
When you listen to certain guitar players, some will just seem to have that unique open crystalline sound that creates an attractive character to the songs that they compose on guitar.
In this lesson, I'll teach you how to play the song "There Is a Time" by The Dillards and made popular in the Andy Griffith show.
There are a few things that are going to have the biggest impact on your sound as a guitar player.
In this lesson we're going to focus on our ears and their ability to anticipate what we are about to play. With help from the CAGED system and the modes, we are going to build chords that work over a particular scale, without thinking about chord shapes.
Learn how to combine picking and legato together to make shredding a bit easier - allowing you to play faster, with less effort.
Learning scales is pretty essential when it comes to lead playing, especially for improvisation. One of the first scale you're likely to learn is the minor pentatonic.
On this lesson I will share with you some easy steps to better, more focused and productive practice sessions.
In this video you'll learn how lead guitar tabs work.
In this video lead guitar scales introduction, we see where scales come from, and why they are the way they are.
This video starts out with a picture of a piano. Why would we need to look at a piano, when we are trying to learn lead guitar music theory?
A brief look into the world of Granular Synthesis, with particular emphasis on use with guitars - what is it, what effect does it have, and how can you use it with guitar samples to create new effects?
Recently I came across this very interesting video of the great James Taylor stating that: “The guitar is not a precise instrument. the pitch or tuning varies a lot: different playing styles; when you play high up the neck as opposed to an open string, or use a capo.
In this lesson, I'll teach you how I play the theme song from the 2017 feature film "Beauty and the Beast", from the voice talents of Ariana Grande and John Legend.
Everything you need to know about types of the technique, how to practice and good songs for that.
This strategy will help you dig deeper into really planning out your chord progressions, instead of relying on trial and error or falling into the same patterns you're used to playing.
Learn how to extend on an arpeggio pattern from an earlier lesson, to access massive range on your guitar without moving your fretting hand at all!
This is the first video in the Lead Guitar Introduction series of many videos, that are going to help you, learn to play lead guitar, from scratch.
Learn some phrases to improve your soloing skills.
In this lesson, I'll be showing you how I play "The Garden" by Kari Jobe on the acoustic guitar.
In this lesson, I'll show you how I play the song "Back to God" by Reba McEntire.
Everything you need to know about types of the technique, how to practice and good songs for that.
All you need to know about the most basic and one of the most used guitar effects in existence.
This lesson is for beginning guitar players: learn how to get your fret hand in the best position so that you can play barre chords without struggling or tiring your hand out.
All we need to do is figure out how to find that hit song that is hiding deep inside.
Today's lesson focuses on a type of sweep-picking that leads to a very unique sound, by combining groups of three and groups of five. This can make you sound extremely fast, by fooling your listener's ear because of the varying rhythm.
If you want to grow as a musician and be a better improviser, you have to train your ears. There's no shortcut. That's why I designed this lesson especially for guitarists.
These tips help your vibrato improve faster.
Are you talented enough to learn how to play the guitar? How do you know that all this practice and hard work will actually help you to improve? Do you fear that there is a limit to your growth as a musician?.
Writing lyrics for music isn't always easy, but there are a few other techniques other than inspiration that will make even a mediocre writer able to turn out great lyrics time and again.
Finding your own style is probably the most important aspect of a guitar player that nobody ever talks about.
Learn how to play the very popular and timeless song, "Amazing Grace," originally composed by John Newton.