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Thinking With Your Capo

May 15, 2023
by garretsguitarlessons Rhythm GuitarPracticingTheory

Capos are a way to give your hand a little bit of a break. Instead of playing a ton of barre chords, you can use familiar shapes to play chords that we’d otherwise need barre chords for. How do we start thinking about using our capo so we can start p ...

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Transpose Licks to Different Pentatonic Positions

April 17, 2023
by garretsguitarlessons Lead Guitar & SoloingIntermediate

There are 5 pentatonic shapes but most only use 2. How do we start using the other 3?! One way is to get used to how licks we’re already familiar with fit into these other shapes. In this blog post I'll be using three licks but transposing them to ...

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Jazz Key Structures | Part 5 – Analyzing “Recorda Me”

February 20, 2023
by garretsguitarlessons Lead Guitar & SoloingTheoryAdvanced

So in this post I’ll be talking about talking about how to start anaylzing the song “Recorda-Me” as an example of how to think about soloing over the song. *This is built upon my previous posts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 The song's chord pro ...

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What Word is on the First Beat?

December 19, 2022
by garretsguitarlessons Rhythm GuitarBeginnerIntermediate

Training our ear is probably the toughest thing to do in learning music. I can show you where to put your fingers and what string to pluck, but really we need to change the way we hear music in order for everything to make sense. What’s funny is w ...

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Songs in CAGED Shapes | 4

September 19, 2022
by garretsguitarlessons Rhythm GuitarTheoryIntermediate

Here's a another example of playing songs within our CAGED chord shapes. Why? Just like my previous example, to get a better idea of where chord tones are, where arpeggios will lay on top, to see things in one position instead of sliding all ov ...

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What is the “Super” Scale (1-3 1-3 Slide Scale)

July 18, 2022
by garretsguitarlessons Lead Guitar & SoloingTheoryIntermediate

It’s the Pentatonic Scale. Yup. It’s just another way to play the pentatonic scale. But what’s so cool about it is the way it’s laid out and the way it sliiiiides to the other positions is so much more conducive to actual musical phrasing. A ...

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Be Aware of What Beat You Start Your Solo

June 20, 2022
by garretsguitarlessons Lead Guitar & SoloingIntermediate

Yes, the title says it all. A good way to think about soloing is: how you start dictates where you’ll go. So if we take a look at the available beats in a measure: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + We’ll note there’s eight places we can start. A good way to ...

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My Favorite 5 Scale Exercises

April 18, 2022
by garretsguitarlessons Lead Guitar & SoloingPracticingIntermediate

Yes, these are a few of MY (yes... me, me, me!) favorite scale exercises. Some of them are tricky, some aren't as tricky, but they all accomplish the same thing... getting us more familiar with our scale shapes. Scale Exercise | 4 Note Pattern ...

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Jazz Key Structures | Part 4 – Working Arpeggios into Scales

February 21, 2022
by garretsguitarlessons Lead Guitar & SoloingAdvanced

My last blog post on this subject (Jazz Key Structures | Part 3) talks about what scales to use when and my best at a brief explanation of the Minor ii-V-i. While it gets you playing the right notes, it doesn’t sound too jazzy… why? Chord tones. ...

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Top 5 First Chord Melody Songs

December 20, 2021
by garretsguitarlessons Rhythm GuitarIntermediate

So you want to get better at Chord Melody’s? You’ve come to the right place. Here are a few songs to help get you started: Layla Outro - Derek and the Dominos https://youtu.be/E5cdlCHaWtM I use this as a starting point to understand how we ...

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Thinking With Your Capo

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Capos are a way to give your hand a little bit of a break. I ...

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Transpose Licks to Different Pentatonic ...

April 17, 2023

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Jazz Key Structures | Part 5 – Ana...

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So in this post I’ll be talking about talking about how to s ...

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Training our ear is probably the toughest thing to do in lea ...

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