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Expand Your Lick Vocabulary and Hone Your Rock Guitar Soloing with These 7 Free Lessons from Corey Congilio

December 11, 2019

Whether you’re writing out a solo or improvising one, you’re connecting a series of musical ideas to express yourself. In his Jam Craft edition of Solo Factory,...

3 Free Blues Bending Guitar Lessons

November 26, 2019

Guitar is one of the only instruments that you can actually perform a bend on and the technique is inherent in all styles of blues and rock guitar playing, Bend...

9 Masterclass Jazz Guitar Lessons to Help You Improve Your Improvisation

November 11, 2019

Henry Johnson has had the opportunity to work with several of the masters of jazz over the course of his career, recording and performing with Jack McDuff, Fred...

7 Free Robben Ford Blues Guitar Lessons

October 18, 2019

These 7 free guitar lessons are from Robben Ford's Blues Revolution, an interactive masterclass from the master of blues guitar. Embraced by listeners and playe...

6 Cutting-Edge Blues Licks You MUST Know

October 16, 2019

If you love to play the blues, you don't want to miss TrueFire artist Jay-P's first course, 30 Cutting Edge Blues Licks You MUST Know. You'll find modern soundi...

6 Free Down Home Boogie & Blues Guitar Lessons

October 13, 2019

The down home country blues grooves pioneered by legendary pre-war blues artists will live on forever, both in their original form and as the foundation for mor...

7 Blues Guitar Intros, Turnarounds & Endings You MUST Know!

October 8, 2019

In these free guitar lessons taken from David Hamburger's 30 Blues Intros, Turnarounds & Endings, David will take you through a series of intros, turnarounds an...

10 Best Blues Guitar Licks (Vol. 1)

September 12, 2019

This new video guitar lesson series features some of the best guitar licks in the TrueFire library as voted on by our community. In this volume, we're featuring...

3 Free Blues Chord Melody Guitar Lessons

January 29, 2019

Understanding how to craft great chord melodies is an essential skill for the blues guitarist. Playing great solos while simultaneously holding down the accomp...

Twist Up Your Blues Soloing with Oz Noy

May 24, 2018

Almost every blues, jazz, and funk solo is improvised - top players will pretty much never play the same thing twice over a particular groove. It's important to...

Learn to Solo Over the Changes: 2 Free Guitar Song Lessons

May 18, 2018

An easy way to approach soloing is to learn the chords, and then use the pentatonic scale to play over them. It's a relatively safe and practical way to begin y...

Learn How to Create Interesting Licks & Phrases on Guitar

May 17, 2018

Jazz, rock, and blues musicians need to be able to modify any lick or phrase in their vocabulary to fit the groove that they're playing over in a creative and f...

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