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Finally understand why chords work together.

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.

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Climbing with Thirds

In Secrets of Tasty Riffs & Solos, one of the tricks I taught was how to use two strings and climb up or down the fretboard in patterns of thirds. This is a great way to move between scale patterns, it sounds really cool and melodic, and it can quickly get you from one end of […]

Blues

3 Chromatic Blues Licks in E

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 […]

Blues

E Blues With Thirds — A Must-Know Guitar Technique

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 […]

Chord Theory

Chord Inversions Guitar: How to Rearrange Notes for Better Voicings

Most guitarists learn their open chords and barre chords and stop there. But if you want smoother chord changes, more interesting voicings, and a better understanding of the fretboard, you need to understand chord inversions guitar players use every day — often without even realizing it. In the video above, we break down what inversions […]

Improvising

Thirds in D – Advanced Guitar Lesson

In my opinion, if you can fully understand how to use thirds on your guitar, you’ve come a long way… Thirds are one of the best sounding harmonies to the human ear, and there are many, many different ways in which they can be applied on the guitar. In these guitar lessons I try to […]

Picking

The D Thing – Strumming & Picking Combined

Today’s lesson is really just focusing in on one particular type of rhythmic picking and strumming combination that I really enjoy doing. Personally I like using this best on the acoustic guitar, and I use this picking & strumming technique a LOT. I love the rhythmic strumming sound mixed in with the distinct notes from […]