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Triads on the Top Strings: A Shapes

This lesson is part of my guitar triads series. Today we’ve got another guitar lesson on triads – those super-handy three note chords that you can find all over the fretboard! Previously, we looked at Root 1 or E Shaped Triads, as well as Root 2 or D Shaped Triads, and today we’re looking at Root

Rock This Muted Stroke Strum

Today I’ve got a cool little trick to share with you – the “muted stroke strum.” This isn’t something I use all the time, but when it fits, it really shines. If you like listening to Jack Johnson, you’ll hear him using his kind of technique all the time. We’ll start off with a simple

Triads on the Top Strings: D Shapes

Today, we’re diving into D-shaped triads on the first, second, and third strings, which is part of my guitar triads series. Building on my previous video about triads related to root 6 bar chords, we’ll focus on moving these D-shaped chords around the fretboard, sticking to the key of D. We’ll start with the familiar D

How To Create Musical Storylines

Today, I want to look at some ideas for creating a musical storyline in your guitar playing. The goal here is to create a sense of movement in your chord progressions. It’s about feeling like you’ve started at one point and ended somewhere different, essentially crafting a journey within your music. To illustrate this, let’s consider

A Hybrid Picking Pattern For Beginners

This is a great hybrid picking pattern to get started with, if you’ve never tried hybrid picking before. One of the biggest benefits of hybrid picking, in my mind at least, is that you gain the ability to pick multiple places at once – something you simply cannot do with just a pick. Your pick is

The Ping Pong Picking Pattern

I’ve called this the Ping Pong picking pattern, because it has a lot of bouncing back and forth, and because it sounds cool! Whenever you’re picking, it’s really important to know where the root notes are for the chords you’re playing. Root notes set the character and direction for the rest of the chord, and

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