Chuck Berry wrote and played some of the most iconic rock and roll guitar licks of all time. Today, we’re going to take a look at one of those Chuck Berry licks in detail so you can go to town with it! This one comes out of the pentatonic minor 2 position scale; basically just […]
A little while ago I visited a friend’s place – we were over there to have a BBQ, and I noticed he had a guitar sitting in the corner. So, I grabbed it and just quietly started jamming away in the corner. I kind of tuned out from the conversation while I was jamming, but […]
Open D tuning is one of those things that sounds complicated until you actually sit down with it. Then everything clicks. Tune your guitar to D A D F# A D, strum it open, and you’re already holding a full D major chord without touching a single fret. That’s what makes slide guitar in open […]
Most guitarists know the minor pentatonic scale pretty well. Play it long enough and it starts to feel like a safe zone — you can noodle around in there without hitting any wrong notes. That’s a solid foundation, but at some point you want your solos to bite a little more. That’s where chromatic blues […]
Standard guitar tuning is quite simply the most common tuning you’re going to come across on the guitar. If you were to go into any guitar shop, there’s a 99% chance that any guitar you pull off the shelf will be tuned to standard guitar tuning. With that in mind, it is important to note […]
At some point in your blues playing, single notes start to feel thin. You want more texture, more body, something that fills out the sound without requiring a full chord change. Thirds are the answer. This classic blues guitar technique gives you two notes at once, and the way they interact over a droning chord […]
Four free video lessons. Take the pentatonic pattern you already half-know and turn it into solos that sound like music, not exercises. Timing, phrasing, the small handful of moves that separate "I'm running the scale" from "I'm actually playing the blues."