Many years ago I bought a guitar exercise book written by Al Di Meola. The first two things he pointed out in the book was the importance of creating good habits and taking care of your health. I never forgot those two golden rules, although taking care of my health was something I had to
Metallica, Ozzy, Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Deep Purple guitar riffs. Chords, tab, videos. Accurate transcriptions, theory, and videos
This guitar lesson provides shapes and exercices with tabs about shell voicings. It explains what are those 3-note chords and how to play them.
In this lesson we're going to work on two foundational techniques of guitar playing, hammer-ons and pull-offs.
In guitar lesson 19b, e begin again with the improvisation from episode 19a and then Dan explains some of the techniques and themes which he used in his playing. He outlines a series of legato exer…
Essential jazz guitar chords and scales, shapes and guitar lesson. Includes free PDF for The Girl From Ipanema.
Welcome to the start of a series of posts on the A minor pentatonic scale, which includes various exercises designed to build up your knowledge of the scales and also to give you ideas and memories of ideas for soloing and melody making. In this first sheet, we will first play the A minor pentatonic […]
I’ve finally got another bass guitar student! I teach so many weekly guitar drums and ukulele lessons but I haven’t had a bassist to teach in 2 years. This is an example of why bands find it so hard to find a bass player. This new student is a complete beginner on bass so I’m […]
With a few focused pinky strengthening exercises for guitar, you can quickly transform the pinky from a weakness into a strength.
DADGAD Tuning is a popular alternative to standard notation. It is tuned by taking your guitar in standard tuning and dropping the 1st, 2nd, and 6th string a whole step down. You can do this [...]
Dweezil Zappa walks you through some quick tricks to enhance your playing
Greensleeves guitar tab music. Play this easy arrangement of the popular English song on acoustic, classical or electric guitar. With notation and chords.
Francisco Tarrega's Lagrima beginner classical guitar lesson and free score. Includes free PDF sheet music ebook and in-depth guitar lesson.
Over the last 9 years of teaching guitar I have noticed young beginners in particular struggle to get to grips with reading guitar tab, but it’s sometimes any age. They get confused over which string the top line of the tab is. Usually they think it’s the 6th string at the top because it’s at […]
In this lesson we'll go through some fingerpicking exercises that'll help get your fingers in shape and moving smoothly across the strings.
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Today we’re going to take a look at a few sweep picking ideas from Yngwie Malmsteen. All of these are only 3 string sweeps so there is not any thing too big. These are good for both the beg…
In this lesson, you will analyze the chords of Fly me to The Moon, learn how to play the melody, and solo over its chord changes (video, tabs, backing track).
Guide tones are the notes in a chord which leads or gives harmonic pull toward the next chord. This lesson show you how to use them through 7 easy jazz lines.
For the 3rd and final lesson in my JBG series I’m looking at the guitar solo. As with the intro, the solo is made up of two different guitar tracks which I’ve combined into one. The first 4 bars of the solo are the main live guitar part, then the overdubbed lead guitar takes over […]
The guitar bending exercises in this lesson will help you develop your feel and improve your bending technique.
This printable PDF guitar method provides 50 exercises with audio files, analysis, tab and staves for learning major 2-5-1 chord voicings.
A review of the best guitar booksfor beginner to advanced guitarists. The Guitar Books I've used for 25 years of Guitarinstruction. An expertly curated list.
Back by popular demand, I have 7 more John Petrucci riffs that will help your alternate picking. If you have not seen the first 9 riffs, head over here. Now let’s start on these seven. NOT…
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Guitar exercises for speed and accuracy can help you become a better player. Try these out to increase your fingers' strength, speed, accuracy, and dexterity.
Guitar Arpeggios: How And When To Play Them. An easy to understand guide to guitar arpeggios, with tips on how to apply them to your playing.
Guitar warm-up is something you'd need to do every day before playing. Many players, especially beginners, forget about this and think that professional players won't…
Today we’re going to take a look at a few sweep picking ideas from Yngwie Malmsteen. All of these are only 3 string sweeps so there is not any thing too big. These are good for both the beg…
