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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.

Triads

E-Shaped Triads on Guitar: Complete Fretboard Guide

This lesson is part of my guitar triads series. Triads are three-note chords, and they’re everywhere on the guitar—even if you don’t realize it. That common six-string G chord (320003) you’ve played a thousand times? It’s still just three notes: G, B, and D. The other strings are just duplicates in different octaves. When you […]

Lick Of The Week

A Sweet Mark Knopfler Lick

Today’s guitar lick is inspired by one that Mark Knopfler played in Sultans of Swing. Specifically, the lick in the second verse after the “jazz goes down” line. That lick is played over an A major chord, and if you dissect it, you discover that all of the notes in that lick are simply straight […]

Lick Of The Week

Lick of the Week 5: Dim7 Chords

I bet this one is a bit off the beaten path for you! Unless you’re into jazz, not too many guitar players plumb the depths of the diminished chords, but today I wanted to show you a fairly simple way to string some into a lick. The amazing beauty of this diminished 7th chord shape […]

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How To Decipher Mystery Chords on Guitar

So… mystery chords… What is a mystery chord? Have you ever fiddled around on your guitar, and come up with a guitar chord that sounds really good, but because you literally just created it by ear, you have NO idea what to call it, let alone how to use it? (Side note – you can […]