Guitar Lessons

Guitar Lesson: "Understanding The Tritone Substitution" by Alfred Scoggins

Style: Jazz. Difficulty: Beginner. How to use and play tritones.

Guitar Lesson: "PENTATONIC" by Charles Gacsi

Style: Theory/Reference. Difficulty: Intermediate. ALL PENTATONIC SCALES ARE DERIVED FROM ONE FIVE TONE SEQUENCE FROM MAJOR SCALES. The variations come from that one pentatatonic scale.

Guitar Lesson: "The DayDreamer" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic/Folk. Difficulty: Intermediate. This relaxing piece is played up the neck and makes use of open first and second strings. Updated.

Guitar Lesson: "Chorinho - A Brazilian Style" by Evaldo Devellis

Style: Other. Difficulty: Intermediate. Learning a little more about brazilian music.

Guitar Lesson: "Aguado-Rondo In,Am" by Julian Currie

Style: Classical. Difficulty: Expert. Goodluck! [Made alot of Left hand changes to make it easier]

Guitar Lesson: "Polyrhythmic Acoustic Technique" by Jake Lizzio

Style: Experimental. Difficulty: Expert. Polyrhythms reside in the world of chaos, disorder, and insanity. Heres a cool piece that combines that nonsense with some nice melodies and chord changes. Very weird, very pretty. This lesson also teaches, in detail, how to perform 5:4.

Guitar Lesson: "Chord-Melody 101:part 1:Getting A Grip" by Robert Strait

Style: Theory/Reference. Difficulty: Advanced. Demystify the art of chord-melody arranging. This lesson outlines some of the concepts involved in creating a chord-melody style arrangement. For intermediate to advanced skill levels.

Guitar Lesson: "Blues Form" by Frederick Burton

Style: Jazz. Difficulty: Intermediate. A guide to different forms of that great American music form......The Blues!

Guitar Lesson: "Neo-Riff" by Victor Kern

Style: Metal. Difficulty: Intermediate. If you want to play like Malmsteen, so this is gonna help you!!!

Guitar Lesson: "Comparing Modes" by Stone Dragon

Style: Theory/Reference. Difficulty: Intermediate. Here's a handy method for memorizing the interval structure and flavor of the major scale modes and learning how to use them in your own playing.

Guitar Lesson: "Recording: The Five Keys To A Clear Mix" by Steve Cass

Style: Theory/Reference. Difficulty: Beginner. The five essential elements in creating a clear mixdown of your music.

Guitar Lesson: "Barre Chords & Movable Shapes--Triads" by Jason Parker

Style: Theory/Reference. Difficulty: Intermediate. Play 8 types of barre chords and other movable shapes.

Guitar Lesson: "Guide To Effects" by Stefan Leonhardt

Style: Theory/Reference. Difficulty: Beginner. There are lots of effects for guitar out there. I'll try to explain them and provide some ideas for using them. Thanks to Stone Dragon, you now can LISTEN to most of the effects described!!!!!

Guitar Lesson: "Carulli - Waltz in G" by Jared Wren

Style: Classical. Difficulty: Beginner. A simple waltz in G written by Ferdinando Carulli that you can play easily and quickly.

Guitar Lesson: "Niccolo Paganini's Caprice #5" by James Ireland

Style: Metal. Difficulty: Ridiculous. I don't really know who this guy is, I just know that he was an amazing shredder. This is an amazing example of what metal and classical sound like when mixed.

Guitar Lesson: "Chord Shape Improvisation, Part 1" by Josh Graves

Style: Theory/Reference. Difficulty: Beginner. Improvisational ideas utilizing minor chord shapes, minor pentatonics, and the minor scale. Serves as a good primer, as does my CAGED lesson, for the more advanced impovisation techniques discussed in Chord Shape Imporvisation, part 2.

Guitar Lesson: "CAGED Chord Theory - Part II" by Jay McConnell

Style: Basics. Difficulty: Intermediate. Continuation of CAGED lesson for moving all types of chords, all over the fretboard to get the harmony and melodies that you want. PLEASE VIEW "HEY JOE & CAGED THEORY" - Lesson # 4177

Guitar Lesson: "Ear Training and Intervals" by Christopher Sung

Style: Basics. Difficulty: Beginner. Here's some basic tips for getting used to hearing notes and intervals. Each interval is presented in context, along with a sound clip to help you remember it.

Guitar Lesson: "Arpeggio Exercise" by Karl Helmar

Style: Metal. Difficulty: Advanced. Here is a sequenced arpeggio exercise.

Guitar Lesson: "Bonny Ann" by Sandra Goodfellow

Style: Acoustic/Folk. Difficulty: Beginner. This is my arrangement of a traditional folk tune from a book of folk tunes collected by Michael Raven.