Online Guitar Lessons
Here is a collection of online lessons, usually made for Facebook, YouTube or Instagram. We're always adding more, so follow our social media accounts to keep up to date:
Beginners lessons
- 1.1 - Introduction to the guitar - this is a sort of glossary of guitar tools and terminology to reference going forward.
- 1.2 - Reading Tabs - this lesson is an introduction to the notation most commonly used by guitar players.
- 1.3 - Single note riffs - this lesson will show you how to play Smoke on the Water and Sunshine of Your Love, with tips and tabs.
- 2.2 - The A, D and E chords
- this lesson will show you the chords you need to start playing full songs, as well as some handy tips on how to
change between them.
more beginners lessons coming soon!
Intermediate lessons
(some of these lessons assume a certain level knowledge)
- Steely Dan - Kid Charlamagne solo analysis - this is a brilliantly constructed jazz/rock/fusion guitar solo which I decided to dissect and analyse, it features some great techniques as well as some interesting harmony.
- Am6 Arpeggio and Rhythmic Displacement - here's a jazzy sounding Am6 arpeggio, followed by a rhythmic concept which can be used used to liven up some of your existing licks and phrases.
- Steve Lukather Style Decending Run - having learnt the solo to Toto's Rosanna, I came up with a Steve Lukather inspired run and explored different ways the same concept could be used.
- Joe Bonamassa Style Pentatonics - this is a lesson in constructing patterns to run through pentatonic shapes.
- Satchel Style Descending Run - an alternate-picked blues scale in the style of Satchel from Steel Panther.
- Jimi Hendrix/John Mayer Style Rhythm Fills - a look at some of those fills that Hendrix and John Mayer between vocal phrases.
- Country/Blues run - a short, flashy descending run down the E blues scale.
- Country Blues run 2 in transposable position - Here's the same lick but this time in A - making it transposable all over the neck.
Backing tracks with diagrams:
- D dorian scale shapes and backing tracks - this is a backing track for noodling over, and getting to grips with D dorian scale shapes.
- A dorian scale shapes and backing track - as above, but in A dorian.
- John Mayer style backing track in G - this is a backing track based on Waiting on the World to Change by John Mayer. Had I listened to the original before making it I'd have noticed that it's actually in D major, but here's my version in G! It's a vamp around a few chords, with some suggested scale shapes for you to experiment with.
more intermediate lessons coming soon!
