8 Blues Guitar Lessons to Take Your Soloing to the Next Level
A great solo is an augmentation of the song you're performing. It's catchy, hummable, and it's a signature of the soloist. This is the way he or she tells a sto...
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6 Folk Jazz Guitar Lessons from Adam Levy
Folk Jazz is what could be described as a unique fusion of Jazz with other American roots styles. These influences include R&B, Blues, Country, Singer/songwrite...
Explore the Origins of American Roots Music with 8 Free Guitar Lessons from Scott Sharrard
American roots music originated in the southern states and ultimately caravanned up the Mississippi River to other music hubs like Chicago and New York. The ele...
6 Free Guitar Lessons to Fuse Your Jazz, Blues, and Boogaloo Playing
Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, George Benson, Wes Montgomery --- these legendary guitarists made their claim to fame in the 1960s playing a soulful, groovy style t...
Transform Chords Into Soaring Melodies With These 5 Melodic Guitar Soloing Lessons
Chords are a great source from which you can pull melodies and solos. After analyzing the notes in a chord, we can stack them on top of each other in a unique w...
Craft More Creative Lead Guitar Parts with Hybrid Picking Guitar Lessons From Andy Wood
In the first edition of ShapeShifter, Andy Wood showed us how to take the foundational harmonic and rhythmic knowhow that you already possess and apply it to fi...
Step Up Your Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar Playing With These 3 Lessons From Sean McGowan
Swapping out a guitar pick for our fingers opens the door to one of the most organic and rewarding ways to play guitar -- especially when it comes to jazz! P...
Learn About The History Of The Blues With These 2 Essential Guitar Song Lessons
Built primarily on blues music, Gospel is a relatively modern style originating in the ‘30s developing from a the influence of spirituals and hymns. In this edi...
Brooklyn Blues Guitar Lesson: Sliding Double Stops
TrueFire Educator Jeff McErlain has just launched his first installment of his new weekly video blog called Jeff McErlain's Brooklyn Blues. Each week Jeff will ...
Brooklyn Blues Guitar Lesson: Quantized Bending
TrueFire Educator Jeff McErlain has just launched his first installment of his new weekly video blog called Jeff McErlain's Brooklyn Blues. Each week Jeff will ...
TNTGI Finalist Mark Wein – Lesson 1: Building Better Blues Lines
Mark Wein is a working musician and guitar teacher from Southern California. He has been teaching guitar for over 25 years, the last 10 of them as owner of his ...
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...