In the video above, we take a hands-on look at the Planet Waves NS Artist Capo with tuner — a clever little accessory that combines two essential guitar tools into one. If you’re building your capo toolkit, be sure to visit our full learn how to use a guitar capo for tips on getting the […]
In 45 years of playing guitar, I’ve come back to the boogie shuffle more times than I can count. Before a gig, warming up backstage. Sitting on the porch with nothing in particular to do. Teaching a student who’s just starting to feel the blues. The acoustic blues guitar boogie is one of those patterns […]
Adding the octave, or perfect 8th interval onto some of your licks can really add a totally new flavor to your guitar solos. If you’d like to learn more about intervals and the scales, checkout my Guitar Scale Patterns course. In this lesson, Colin demonstrates how you can use the octaves all over the fretboard. […]
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I love improvising – just noodling around in a given key and having a generally good time jamming away on the guitar. A big part of that is in creating fills or riffs in between chords… So today’s lesson is purely to give you a few ideas that you can use to get started creating […]
On the guitar arpeggios are often seen as these really complicated theoretical things, and I’ve discovered there’s actually quite a bit of confusion as to what guitar arpeggios actually are. In its simplest form, an arpeggio is simply notes from the scale or chord, played in sequence or some sort of pattern. Typically the notes […]
Two free video lessons on hybrid picking, the picking approach that turns static rhythm into something with melody and bass motion inside it. The first one is built for beginners. The second one's a pattern most rhythm guitarists never quite stumble into on their own.