Guitar Licks and Phrases: How Guitarists Build a Musical Vocabulary
Learning to solo feels overwhelming at first. Most players try to memorize patterns, run scales up and down, and wonder why nothing sounds musical....
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Blues Guitar Licks: How to Build Solos That Sounds Authentic
Blues guitar licks are the core of one of the most emotionally direct musical languages ever put on a fretboard....
Unleashing the Magic: How Famous Guitar Solos are Created
Guitar solos have the power to elevate a song from ordinary to unforgettable. They are the moments that make your heart race, your fingers air-guitar, and your ...
4 Theory Concepts Every Guitarist Should Know
Music theory can be one of the most difficult parts for guitar players who are ready to move up a level with their playing. There's too much to know and underst...
Take Your Jazz Blues Guitar Soloing to the Next Level
When jazz takes on the blues, it develops a vocabulary of its own – the nuances of jump blues, swing, and bebop can help you develop new ideas to bring into you...
Learn Urban Blues Guitar Soloing & Rhythm with Robben Ford
It's common knowledge that the blues was born in the South, traditionally played on acoustic instruments. When the blues made it's way to the cities, blues play...
Learn Masterful Improvisation Techniques for Soloing with Allen Hinds
Today, there are more players with technical chops than ever before - however, often times their solos and improv skills are somewhat lacking, and sound a bit d...
Learn to Solo Over the Changes: 2 Free Guitar Song Lessons
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...
2 Soloing Strategies Every Guitarist MUST Know
When soloing on guitar, it's easy to play something and feel that it doesn't really fit the rest of the song. It happens to every guitar player -- maybe you're ...
Develop Your Soloing Chops with Free CAGED Guitar Lessons
The CAGED chord system is one of the most invaluable tools to bring in when developing your improvisational chops. By taking advantage of the CAGED system, you'...
7 Jazz Scales Guitar Lessons
These 7 free guitar lessons are from Tom Dempsey's Jazz Scales Handbook, in this you'll cover the most commonly used scales found in jazz and how these scales c...
4 Free Solo 12-Bar Blues Guitar Lessons
These 5 free guitar lessons are from Brad Carlton's Guitar Lab: Solo 12-Bar Blues. This course is organized to guide you through the basics of playing a 12-bar ...