Using ties can really make your rhythm guitar playing sound natural and free. Before you start on this lesson make sure that you have got your basic rhythm guitar down - especially the Bar 4 from the ...
So now that you have your Dominant 7th chords down it's time to use them and combine in some of your strumming rhythm patterns. Follow along as Justin gets you started on learning how to do Blues stru ...
An important early lesson on the guitar is the famous 12 bar blues. It is probably the most used blues chord sequence. It is usually the same progression but has some variations that are quite common. ...
In this guitar lesson, Justin gives some tips on practicing and exploring the pentatonic scale. He gives some steps on how to add variation so it doesn't always sound like a scale. ...
Learning a scale is a lot like learning an alphabet. So like an alphabet, once you've learned a scale, it's important to start learning how to improvise on that scale in your guitar playing. This ste ...
Melodic Patterns are number games that can be applied to scales to open the scale up to new and creative ways to play them. They also create fingering challenges that must be overcome, increasing your ...
This guitar lesson covers two shapes of the 9th chord (dominant). They are great substitutes for the regular 7th chords you might use in a normal blues. Any time you would normally play a 7th chord yo ...
In this part of Justin's guitar series on "Jazzing up your blues" you learn to link the two arpeggios playing eight notes on each one and changing to the nearest note of the following arpeggio. This l ...
In this guitar lesson Justin goes over walking bass when playing jazz blues. This is a great technique to get down, it sounds real cool when you get it swinging. ...
The finger gym exercise (also known as the slurs exercise) is an exercise for technical development on the guitar. It works every possible finger combination and if you do this exercise regularly you ...