Essential Blues Guitar Lessons Part Six: Combining Basic Rhythm and Lead
In Lesson Five we discussed the Minor Pentatonic Scale in it’s first shape. This scale will be used to start forming our lead guitar lines.
Essential Blues Guitar Lessons Part Five: The Minor Pentatonic Scale
Now that you’ve got your 12 bar rhythms nailed and you’ve started to learn about turnarounds, the next step is to start to integrate the idea of some lead guitar into what we do.
Music Composition for Beginners 4: Popular chord progressions
How chords color their progressions, and four iconic examples from pop music.
Guitar Technique for Beginners 2: Left-hand techniques
Dress up your playing style with hammer-ons, slides, bends and other fundamental fretboard techniques.
Guitar Technique for Beginners 1: Hands, fingers and strengthening exercises
Finger exercises, the ‘right’ ways to grasp a guitar neck, and other basic techniques new players shouldn’t gloss over.
Music Composition for Beginners 3: The “I-IV-V” chord progression
By understanding the patterns behind this common chord progression, you can play them in other keys, or create your very own ones.
Music Composition for Beginners 2: Major, minor and dominant 7th chords
An introduction to major 7th, minor 7th and dominant chords, and how to deploy them while you play.
Music Composition for Beginners 1: Minor, major and power chords (Part 2)
The formulas behind major and minor chords, and how to use CAGED to play them.
Music Composition for Beginners 1: Major, minor and power chords (Part 1)
An introduction to chord formulas and how to form power chords, major chords, and minor chords.
Music Theory for Beginners 2: Sharps, flats and key changes
An introduction to sharps and flats, keys, and dealing with key changes.