You don’t need all six strings to make great music. Some of the tastiest guitar parts use just two strings — partial chord shapes pulled from voicings you already know, played higher on the neck to fill out a song without stepping on the main rhythm guitar. If you’ve been working on your open chords, […]
This past weekend I had a really cool opportunity to help out on the sound crew for a pretty good sized outdoor concert. To give you an idea, it took ten of us about three hours to setup the system, and the main speaker array was pushing about 80,000 watts. ? My job was to […]
The G chord is one of the first chords every guitarist learns — and for most players, it stays exactly the same forever. That’s a missed opportunity. With a few small changes to your fingers, a basic G can sound completely different: warmer, more tense, more melodic, or just plain cooler. (If you’re still getting […]
Most guitar players have a handful of licks they reach for constantly. Not flashy showpieces — just solid, reliable phrases that fit the feel and keep things moving. A bread-and-butter blues lick guitar players can use in almost any A minor blues context. This is one of those. In the video above, I walk through […]
A slash chord is just a regular chord with a different note in the bass. You’ll see them written as something like D/F# or C/G — the letter before the slash is the chord, the letter after the slash is the bass note. They show up everywhere in pop, rock, folk, and country, and they’re […]
Everyone knows the standard E minor chord — two fingers, six strings, done. It’s one of the first chords you learn, and most players never think about it again. But just like there are dozens of ways to modify a G chord, there are voicings of E minor further up the neck that sound completely […]
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.