Here’s another guitar lesson, brought to you from the beautiful outdoors in British Columbia. Today I wanted to take a look at a strumming technique that can really help add some dynamics to your guitar playing. The heart of this technique is to simply be selective in what strings you strum… don’t feel like you […]
Well it’s been a little while since I shot a lesson for you guys, so this time I thought I’d at least change up the background a bit! Today we’re going to learn a cool chord progression: Em G D A, and a couple licks. The first lick is pretty simple – it’s just straight […]
The other day I received a nice letter airmailed from France… you can click on the picture on the right, and read the scanned copy, if you want. I opened it up, thinking perhaps that one of my students had sent me a note or something like that, but instead to my surprise, I found […]
Well, here we are – another year has come and gone, and everyone is older, wiser, and hopefully better guitar players than last year! I know speaking for myself, that I’ve improved on the guitar in the past year, although in different ways than I’d originally hoped to. Last year I started out with the […]
Have you ever struggled to find a strum pattern to fit a particular song? The strum pattern that Colin will teach you in this very short lesson is compatible with an incredible number of songs, across all kinds of different genres. That makes it a must-have pattern for any beginner guitar player to have in […]
In the video above, we show you how a partial capo guitar setup can give you the sound of alternate tunings — without actually retuning a single string. If you’re new to capo techniques, start with our complete our guide on how to use a guitar capo to get the fundamentals down first. A partial […]
Three free videos. The fretboard isn't twenty separate positions, it's one system that keeps repeating. Once you see that, the chord shapes you already know stop being mystery moves and start being the where of something bigger. I'll show you in about fifteen minutes total.