Adding melodic ideas to chordal rhythm guitar parts can make them stand out and sound more musical. There's an easy way to do this, by learning what melody notes you can play on top of simple triad shapes.

Focusing on 4 string triad shapes, I'll walk you through one approach that can help you easily ...

Disclaimer: This video is not JUST for slide guitar, though I use a slide throughout. You can play the patterns without a slide and get just as much out of it. Don't let that scare you away if you don't play slide.

The guitar has two basic planes, the horizontal and the vertical. The horizontal plane...

One of the most interesting patterns in music is the diminished 7th chord and its related arpeggios and scales. This chord is symmetrical, built entirely of minor 3rds, and this provides some unique qualities that can be both very useful and fun to explore.

In this lesson we're going to talk about so...

When you are playing over any song or chord progression, the more options you have the better. If you know the fretboard well you can find the sound that you like best, and shift between positions with ease.

In this video I share the method I use to play chord progressions in any position using the c...

Chord tone soloing is one way to refer to using the notes taken from changing harmony to play more relevant and interesting sounding solos.

The basic idea is that instead of using a static scale to solo over a chord progression, you shift with the harmony. Even over a basic chord progression this wil...

Music theory can be difficult to understand when you approach it from a "whole guitar" approach. I like to look at new scales, arpeggios etc. on a single string first.

This helps me to wrap my brain around the intervals involved and get my ears to better hear the new sounds before I try and apply the...

In this video I take you through some of my effects setups that I use for live performance.

I go into detail about how I think about gain staging and the different effects that I like and use in order to have a versatile live performance setup.

In addition to the basic sounds that I use as a general e...

Here's a video to show you the two primary types of guitar parts in funk music, as I see it.

It's applicable to many other styles of music as well, so if you pay attention you may be able to spot this same type of pattern in other genres as well.

I use two great songs to demonstrate this idea, and tho...

Chord Melodies are a great skill to learn if you want to increase your enjoyment of the guitar.. which I am guessing you want to do. Music is fun, and should be fun! It is hard work as well but there's nothing in life that is worth doing that doesn't take some hard work.

This lesson will show you how...