Professor Says: Right Hand Pattern
Professor Ray Nijenhuis explains and demonstrates a very useful right hand pattern concept, and how to instantly add some fun chord progressions to your playing...
Guitar Lessons
Professor Says: Parallel Pentatonics
Professor Beasley explains the Parallel Keys concept, and how to instantly double your lick repertoire. For more awesome guitar lessons from Jeff Beasley, check...
Professor Says: Body Percussion
Professor Vicki Genfan, our resident master and innovator of the acoustic “slap-tap” technique, demonstrates 3 different ways to embellish the Sam Smith son...
Pentatonic Scale: Horizontal Vision
In this free video guitar lesson, Giampiero Villa explains the usefulness of "horizontal vision" when playing the pentatonic scale. Check back for more lessons ...
Jeff McErlain’s Cure for Your Summertime Blues: Hybrid Picking
Hybrid picking is a great technique to really open up your playing and a cool way to add some new sounds as well. In this free video guitar lesson, I show y...
Learn How to Improvise Using Intervals and Tetrachords
In June, I wrote an article for TrueFire that touched on how you get from topical knowledge to creativity and application. Here we’re going to walk that out ...
Dr. Corey Congilio’s Cure for Your Summertime Blues
In this free video guitar lesson, Corey Congilio shows you a secret of his that will help you conquer your Summertime Blues. Check it out! Learn more from Co...
My Favorite Thing: Tom Dempsey
About Tom Dempsey Guitarist Tom Dempsey's reputation in the New York jazz scene for hard swinging sophistication and pure musicality have made him a dist...
My Favorite Thing: Fareed Haque
About Fareed Haque Guitar virtuoso and master educator Fareed Haque has worked with Sting, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Holland, Joe Henderson, Joe Zawinul, Rams...
My Favorite Thing: Sheryl Bailey
This study is not only a great technique builder, but also an important tool to begin creating strong melodic phrases that outline the harmony. A great...
My Favorite Thing: Mimi Fox
One of my favorite things to do when improvising is superimposition. I’ll show you here in this video how to take a F Major 7 arpeggio and play it over a G7 cho...
My Favorite Thing: Christopher Woitach
A great way to organize your improvised solos is with the use of “Call and Response”, also known as “Question and Answer”. This is one of my favorite things to ...