Lessons

Economy picking is a game-changer for guitarists aiming to achieve fluid and effortless speed in their playing. In this economy picking lesson, we’ll dive into five essential exercises designed to improve your picking accuracy, minimize hand movement, and maximize efficiency. This hybrid picking style combines the best of alternate picking and sweep picking, enabling you […]

Guitar Triplet Lesson: 3 Combination Triplets And 16Th Notes Tabs to enhance your guitar playing and musical versatility. What are Triplets? Triplets divide a beat into three equal parts. They create a swingy, flowing sound. What are 16th Notes? 16th notes divide a beat into four equal parts, offering a quicker, more driving rhythm. 3 […]

Dive into the intricate chord progression of Sergio Mendes’ classic hit “Never Gonna Let You Go.” This analysis unravels the sophisticated harmonic structure that gives the song its unique and captivating sound. Explore the use of unexpected modulations, extended chords, and smooth voice leading that make this track a standout example of complex chording in […]

Master the Am6 Pentatonic Guitar Shredding Exercise – 2 Licks with Tab to take your soloing skills to the next level. This exercise focuses on rapid alternate picking and smooth legato techniques, perfect for players looking to add some advanced flavor to their solos. Each lick is broken down with precise tabs to guide you […]

Explore the unique sound of suspended 2nd chords, or “sus2 chords,” and learn how to use them to add depth to your playing. This post covers the theory behind sus chords, practical tips for incorporating them into your music, and popular songs that feature these chords. Suspended Chord Theory: Suspended chords are a type of […]

A valuable method of training your ear is to practice singing the notes that you play on the guitar. I’d like to offer you some specific advice on how to go about doing this on your own. A good way to start this training method is to stay within one scale and key and make […]

In my last two columns, I outlined a series of different ear training exercises designed to sharpen your note-recognition abilities. As you may recall, we began with an examination of the intervallic relationships between pairs of notes, then expanded the scope of our analysis to include full chords. Up to this point, we’ve been using […]

Learn 5 Part Ear Training lesson from Legend Steve Vai Check part 3 Of Ear Training Lesson here: Ear Training Lesson With Steve Vai – Part 3 – When Your Ears Become Really Good In last column, I showed you a way to hone your pitch and interval recognition skills by singing in harmony with […]

To quickly review, the last four columns have covered the following approaches to ear training: singing the notes of major and minor scales while playing them; playing pairs of notes and identifying the intervallic relationships between the notes; learning to identify different chord qualities (types) solely by hearing them; singing in harmony with single-note riffs […]

Guitar Harmonics Lesson: In This Lesson, we’re gonna talk about harmonics-how to get ’em, where you can find ’em and what you can do with ’em. There are a number of different ways you can make harmonics happen. You can induce ’em with your pick (pinch harmonics), you can tap ’em like Eddie Van Halen […]