Author Archive for Rick

Pentatonic Guitar Lesson 1

The pentatonic scale is one of the most popular scales guitar players learn and use. One of the coolest things of the pentatonic scale is that you can’t really play a bad note. This scale is made up of five notes per octave. This scale is derived form playing only five of the seven notes [...]

Open Chord Guitar Lesson 1

Open Chord Guitar Lesson 1
 
In the first open chord guitar lesson we are teaching you the basic shapes of A Major – E Major – D Major. For beginners it’s a must to learn these 3 chords plus, you’ll be able to play about 300 songs with these 3 chords.
 
After working through these chord shapes [...]

Major Scale Guitar Lesson 4

So far we’ve been working with the 7 short patterns in our previous guitar lessons on the B and high E string set only. Now, let’s see how all of this material relates to the other 7 sets, as well.
 
The guitar is made up of 5 sets of adjacent strings. They are the:
 
6,5 string set [...]

Major Scale Guitar Lesson 3 – Application

This guitar lesson is designed to help you make some sense of the 1st two scale lessons. The question is “Ok, now I know 7 short scale patterns in the Key of C on two strings, now what?” Well, I’ve always found that the best way to learn something is to put it into context [...]

Major Scale Guitar Lesson 2

In this next guitar lesson you will be connecting the 3 small shapes across 2 strings:
• 1-2-4 Long
• 1-2-4 Short
• 1-3-4
These 3 short patterns will turn into 7 stackable patterns. These 7 patterns will tie the entire fretboard together for you in a way that would have taken you years to master. This system will complete [...]

Major Scale Guitar Lesson 1

In this guitar lesson we start off by breaking down the major scale in 3 easy to remember patterns:

1-2-4 Long
1-2-4 Short
1-3-4

 
Once memorized you’ll be able to play the Major Scale in any key anywhere on the fretboard, by using this approach even our most advance guitar students are looking at soloing and lead [...]

Beginner Guitar Lesson 5

In this lesson we get you to apply what you have learned through out the first 4 lessons. We put together a simple practice song for you to practice your chord switching and some basic rhythm guitar.
We organized this song to use all possible chord combinations to help develop your switching skills. Going through these [...]