Feel? If we were to break it down, what is it? Can you develop feel? Yes. Some develop feel at a young age. Others don't have that natural tendency and have to consciously work on it. I think one of the biggest indicators are those that learn s ...
Have you ever heard a cover of a song that had such a fresh take of a song, it almost sounded like that person wrote it? One of my favorite aspects of music as a whole is how you can take a song and really make it to be whatever you want it to be. I ...
One of the best things to solo better is not learning a new scale, arpeggio or lick rather let your ear decide where you want to go. Take a listen to some of the most memorable solos of all time, what makes them so memorable? The ability to hum them, ...
The CAGED System is a tool that helps you visualize the fretboard. The idea of it is to take open chord shapes and base fretted chord shapes, arpeggio shapes and scale shapes around the open chord shapes. We connect them all by their roots notes in t ...
Are you ever at a point in your guitar playing that you're just not sure what the next step is? The best thing to do is start transcribing and learning songs! When learning a new song/solo try to pinpoint what makes that song/solo stick out to you. ...
I call my theory video series "Usable Guitar Theory" for a reason. I ignore stuff that may be relevant in a college theory course, but not very applicable to a majority of the music most play. The vii diminished chord is a perfect example of somethin ...
It's happened to all of us guitar players, we want to solo over something and we don't really know where to start. Where should we start? What key are we in? What scale should we use? It's all a lot of information and there are many ways to navigate ...
So you've been playing guitar for a little while but not sure where to go next? Here are some starting points to get you rolling and get you over the next hump. It’s nearly impossible to accurately assess where you’re at without hearing you, so these ...
