Improve your rhythm while working towards mastering an important shape on the guitar neck. This lesson looks at many different permutations of triplet & quarter note rhythms and demonstrates how to apply rhythms to scale/arpeggio/chord patterns.

One sure way to improve at the guitar is to practice rh...

Elevate your melodic phrasing skills on guitar with a simple 4-step formula to craft captivating solos! Learn to 1) State a motif, 2) Develop it, 3) Expand it, and 4) Resolve it for dynamic improvisation. Perfect for intermediate players, this video includes a 16-bar practice solo with play-along tr...

Struggling with guitar improvisation? Learn this simple 4-part phrasing exercise to create jumpstart your ideas and be on your way to creating powerful solos! Perfect for intermediate guitarists looking to generate ideas when improvising.

Includes sheet music/tablature and backing track for you to ex...

Today we continue our deep dive into improvisation with Part 3 of this guitar improv basics series. In today's installment we'll take a look at how syncopation can enhance your sound and make your solos & parts sound better and more musical.

Syncopated rhythms (emphasizing typically weak beats) add a...

Today we're going to look at building vocabulary for improvisation by practicing rhythmic variations. We're going to look specifically at all kinds of different combinations of 8th notes and Quarter Notes and how we can alter those rhythms to create cool ideas.

Rhythm is the foundation of music, so i...

Learn how to turn technical patterns into musical ideas for soloing, composition and rhythm guitar parts. It all starts with learning the foundational concepts of rhythm, and working on them in a systematic way.

In this video we'll take a dive into some crucial concepts that will help you move from p...

Anchoring scale patterns to chord shapes will help you have a more grounded understanding of where you can play in any given key. I use this approach and it has helped me tremendously.

In this video I share a simple and quick exercise that can help you create a pathway between the simple type 1 barre...

Double stop is a common term for playing two notes simultaneously on adjacent strings. The term is borrowed from stringed instruments such as violin, viola etc. but as guitarists we can use the term too!

It boils down to a technique of playing an interval made up of two notes, most typically played o...

Have you mastered the 5 in-position pentatonic shapes yet? If not, then why not? They are extremely functional and provide a vital piece of your foundation for understanding the neck. They can be expanded into the all important major scale shapes and make those easier to learn.

Each of the 5 shapes h...

The 6th is a valuable interval to know and be fluent with on guitar due to its fantastic sound and overall usefulness. They sound great when used in rhythm parts, solos and when harmonizing melodies so there are many ways you can apply them.

In this video we'll dive into some basic 6th interval patte...

A wide interval triad is exactly as it sounds - a triad where the notes have been spread out to extend beyond a single octave. This gives simple triads an expansive and vibrant sound, making these chords exciting to explore and easy to create beautiful chord sequences with.

The approach is to take a ...

In this lesson we're going to look at another very applicable concept that can help you create more interesting guitar parts, and have a lot of fun while you are at it.

Triad pairs are the focus for this lesson, so let's look at what that means. 

A triad pair is just like it sounds; a pair of triads t...