Here’s another riff for you guys looking for something else for your guitar’s arsenal… this one today is in the key of G major, and it works off the C+ chord. Just as an aside, if you haven’t seen the ( + ) used before, it is shorthand for ‘major.’ The flip side to that […]
One summer night a while back, I met this guy named Aiden. He was playing guitar at a campfire and he sounded pretty good. Nothing he played was that complicated, but the songs sounded good, and everyone was enjoying it. After a while, one of the other guys asked him how long he’d been playing […]
So you want to learn how to play guitar? Congratulations! In my humble opinion, learning to play guitar is one of the most rewarding things you can do. This free guide will teach you the 5 essential chords every beginner needs, how to tune your guitar, and how to get clean, clear sounds. No experience […]
Alright all you one finger wonders out there, this one is for you! This is a fun kind of riff that you can really do pretty much anything you want with, once you get the hang of it. The main idea is that you’re using the open E string as a drone, and then you’re […]
In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn a cool blues riff that revolves around a string stretch. This is kind of an “advanced-beginner” level riff, because the overall riff is fairly easy to pickup; however to really pull it off smoothly you need to be able to master a couple important techniques. The stretch itself is […]
Hey, happy Braille Day! That’s right, today is Braille Day, so I thought it would be appropriate to talk about how to play the guitar without looking! There are plenty of good blind guitar players of course, but ironically most guitar players who are not blind still find themselves wishing they could play without looking! […]
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.