7 Free Lessons That'll Change How You Play Guitar

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After 45 years of teaching, I can usually spot what's holding a player back within five minutes. It's almost always one of these seven things. I put together a free video lesson for each — delivered to your inbox over the next week.

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Guitar Soloing

Adding Chromatic Passing Tones to Your Guitar Solos

Once you’ve got a pentatonic scale under your fingers and you’re starting to build phrases with it, the next step in your guitar solo lessons…

Guitar Riffs

Green River Intro Riff: E Minor Double Stop Slide

Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival has one of those intros that just sticks with you. It’s built on E pentatonic minor, and it uses…

Guitar Songs

Easy Guitar Solo: The Last Time by the Rolling Stones

If you’re looking for an easy solo to learn that’s also genuinely useful, the guitar solo from “The Last Time” by the Rolling Stones is…

Practice Tips

The Secret to Noodling on Guitar

If you’ve ever picked up your guitar with no plan — just playing whatever comes to mind — you’ve probably been noodling. But what separates…

Strumming

Practicing Strumming with a Metronome: Build Rock-Solid Timing

If your strumming sounds good alone but falls apart when you play with other people, timing is the issue. And the fastest way to fix…

Beginner Guitar

Guitar Capo for Beginners: Play Any Key With Simple Chords

A capo is one of the best things a beginner can buy. Ten bucks, and suddenly those five or six open chords you already know…

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