Leaderboard

Here I teach you the first steps from switching from the minor and major pentatonic patterns to the mixolydian patterns in order to start playing the mixolyidan mode in a smooth jazz guitar setting.

Here you learn to make basic combinations with chords and solo's from scratch. The key to make the combinations is that you always know where in the bar and the form of the blues you are. This is a basic slow blues guitar form with : Am7 / Dm7 / Am7 / Am7 / Fmaj7 / E7 / Am7 Dm7 / Fmaj7 E7

Here you learn your first rock lead guitar licks. The key of all rock guitar solo's are the bendings in the root pentatonic position and the speed of your picking hand. Both of these tasks are discussed here that you can start your basic rock guitar training and if you follow my instructions you might be able to fullfill the task in the timeframe of 3 weeks.

Here we are making our first steps of soloing to a simple bossa nova track with the chord progression I-7 / I-7 / II-7b5 / V7 in the key of Am. The key to any improvisation is that you learn to follow the chord progression and the chords while you are playing. And here I give you some very first and easy exercises to train that.

One of the crucial things I always teach my students is that you always need to know where you are in the music and feel what is the best thing to do next. At the beginning this is of course a task for everybody and the way to succeed is to reduce the difficulty level and to focus on the music and musical form. Here in this tutorial I show you how to use some very basic chord variations and how to follow this blues in G with your chord variations.

Here I show you 3 different basic licks which you can use in any slow blues guitar setting. I show the main basic lick and then a whole bundle of variations of them to make you sound really smooth and cool.