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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.

Progressions

Cool Chord Progression With Drone Notes

Here’s a fun little trick you can use to add some additional character to your chord progressions – add some drone notes. What do I mean by that? Simply adding a note that remains constant throughout each chord change. Kind of like how a bagpipe always has that drone going on underneath the melody. Oops, […]

Licks & Riffs

Cool Chord Progression + 2 Riffs

Well it’s been a little while since I shot a lesson for you guys, so this time I thought I’d at least change up the background a bit! Today we’re going to learn a cool chord progression: Em G D A, and a couple licks. The first lick is pretty simple – it’s just straight […]

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 […]