Alternate Picking Guitar: Alternate Guitar Picking and Bass Lines
One of my favorite tricks for country-style guitar is alternating between bass notes and strums using inversions. It’s a core guitar technique that gives your…
Beginners
Beginner Guitar Scales – Open E Pentatonic Minor Scale
The open E pentatonic minor scale with an extension is one of the most important scales for beginner guitarists to learn. You’ve probably seen this…
Beginner Strumming Patterns for Guitar
Once you can hold a chord and move the pick up and down, the next step is learning actual beginner strumming patterns. Patterns are what…
Jazz Guitar Chords: Start With Major 7ths
Jazz chords have a softer, mellower sound than standard major and minor chords, and the major 7th family is the best place to start learning…
12 Bar Blues Chord Progressions
12 bar chord progressions are incredibly common in music. You’ve probably heard of “12 bar blues” progressions before, but unfortunately, that leaves many people mistakenly…
How to Strum Guitar: A Beginner’s Guide to Technique
Learning how to strum guitar is one of the first things every beginner needs to figure out — and it’s one of the things that…