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10 Minor Jazz Comping Guitar Lessons With Fareed Haque
A vast majority of the time a band is interested in hiring a jazz guitar player, it is not for their ability to play lead lines and take solos. instead, they ar...
5 Americana Guitar Soloing Lessons With Jason Loughlin
When we, as guitarists, play with other musicians, we learn an immense amount. When we're playing rhythm, we get the chance to hear other soloists and pick up o...
10 Jazz Blues Guitar Lessons With Sean McGowan
Along the historic timeline of American music, traditional country blues evolved into an electric style. This marked the first bricks in the road to jazz music....
Learn The History And Traditions Of Blues With These 9 Fingerstyle Guitar Lessons From Rev. Robert Jones
Blues, as a style, is the most influential music genre that America has ever known. It's origins date back over 130 years, yet paved the way for popular styles ...
Expand Your Sonic Palette With These 6 Wah-Wah Guitar Lessons
There are a large handful of electric guitar effects that have revolutionized the way we hear modern guitar music. Distortion, reverb, and delay are some incred...
5 Jazz Standard Soloing Guitar Lessons With Frank Vignola
Getting better as a guitar player often involves jamming and performing with other musicians. That is where a substantial amount of your growth happens naturall...
7 Heavy Rock Soloing Guitar Lessons With Alex Skolnick
Whether you are improvising a lead line, or crafting the perfect solo, you are always connecting different musical ideas together. This is how we express oursel...
8 Blues Guitar Lessons To Light Up Your Lead Playing
Blues music, as a style, has paved the way for many great, iconic guitar players. The players who have really shone through developed some characteristics about...
7 Single-Note Guitar Licks To Fire Up Your Soloing In Any Style
When you start playing the guitar, or any instrument, you usually end up choosing a style or genre on which to focus. Blues, jazz, R&B, and rock might be some g...
Learn How to Captivate Your Audience: 9 Free Songwriting Guitar Lessons from Willy Porter
If you are a relatively new songwriter, or you've been at it for a while, you've likely encountered some common roadblocks all the same. Figuring out how to sta...
Learn To Jazz Solo Like A Pro With These 4 Bebop Guitar Lessons
Jamming with and interacting with other musicians in a performance context is one of the best ways to get better at playing. This holds especially true for bebo...