Adding Bass Notes to Your Strumming: The Boom-Strum Technique
Plain strumming sounds fine. Strumming with targeted bass notes sounds like you’ve been playing for years. It’s one of those upgrades to your strumming patterns…
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Rock and Roll Rhythm Guitar: The Boogie-Woogie Shuffle (Part 1)
One of the trickiest things for guitar players — especially once you’re past the beginner stage — is piecing rhythm and lead together into one…
Cool Country & Blues Riffs (Acoustic Guitar)
Here’s one of those riffs that sits right at the crossroads of country and blues. Colin picked it up years ago, and it’s stuck around…
Beginner Blues Chords
If you want to play blues guitar, you need three chords: E7, A7, and B7. These seventh chords are the foundation for hundreds of blues…
12 Bar Blues Rhythm: Scale-Based Riff Guitar Lesson
You know what? Most folks think rhythm guitar is just about strumming chords. D chord, strum it. G chord, strum it. That’s fine, but you’re…
Electric Guitar Fingerstyle Techniques
When you’re learning electric guitar, somebody’s eventually going to ask you: are you a pick player or a fingerstyle player? Here’s what I’ve learned over…