Improvise Powerful Lines With These 3 Chord Tone Soloing Guitar Lessons
Honing into chord tones is arguably the most important melodic technique when it comes to crafting a solo or improvising. But, what are chord tones? Chord tones...
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Refine Your Soloing Chops With These 5 Blues Guitar Lick Lessons From Kid Andersen
Are your pentatonic scales and blues box licks leaving you a bit underwhelmed? Many blues players end up feeling this way at some point. So, it could be a sign ...
5 Fearless Chordal Licks To Expand Your Electric Guitar Vocabulary
From playing in clubs and weddings in his teens, to arena touring in his 20's, to present day as world touring musician and producer, Carl Verheyen has been a p...
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 Electric Guitar Lessons to Help You Craft More Creative Solos
We, as guitar players, are constantly striving to express ourselves more creatively and more fluently. And, when we work on improving our soloing skills, oftent...
Explore the History of Blues Guitar with 10 Free Lessons from Rev. Robert Jones
Muddy Waters, Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf are amongst several other blues prodigies of the 1940s we regard as the true pioneers of urban electri...
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...
Learn To Craft Sweet Solos Using Guide Tones With These 2 Guitar Soloing Lessons
Soloing over a song that is more complex than your standard twelve bar blues progression can be a challenge. Most players rely on playing the blues box, which w...
Find the Pocket with 3 Free Rhythm Guitar Lessons from Adam Levy
Regardless of whichever style or genre of modern music you love the most, rhythm guitar is a vital component when it comes to finding the "pocket." When musicia...
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...
Take Your Lead Guitar Playing To The Next Level With These 2 Electric Guitar Lessons With Ariel Posen
The art of creating a tantalizing guitar solo is not solely about scales, arpeggios, or technical skills on the fretboard. Of course, these are all important to...
Learn How to Practice Jazz Guitar Songs with These 5 Free Lessons from Mimi Fox
The most frequently asked questions our educators get are, “How and what should I practice to improve as a player?” and “What is the best approach for learning ...