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...
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Hone Your Soloing With These 7 Burnin’ Country Guitar Lessons
In order to solo effectively in any given style, you first need to compile a lexicon of licks, and be able to improvise with them authentically. This holds part...
Expand Your Blues-Rock Soloing Palette with 4 Free Guitar Lessons from Jeff McErlain
The blues-rock genre has provided a stage on which some of the most legendary guitarists of all time have stood. Players like Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Jef...
Put Some Soul Into Your Jazz Solos with 6 Free Guitar Lessons from Mark Whitfield
Soul is a facet of jazz that is commonly found throughout many genres of modern music. Neo-soul, modern funk, urban-driven pop, and R&B are just some of the sty...
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...
Expand Your Jazz Chord Progression Library With These 5 Electric Guitar Lessons
It's essential for jazz guitarists to know chord progressions' role in a song. In understanding this, you are able to lock into the harmonic principles of a son...
Learn the Foundations of Becoming a Great Bassist with 10 Bass Guitar Lessons from Ryan Madora
Whenever we as bass guitar players perform, we have a very important task at hand: to craft a bass line that best serves the song and solidifies a groove. I...
Improve Your Soul Jazz Playing With These 4 Guitar Lessons From James Hogan
It is widely agreed upon that one of the most successful ways you can improve your skills as a guitarist is to play with other musicians. That's where the real ...
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...
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...