Lessons

Welcome to our lessons section. We have divided up our lessons into 3 parts, beginner, ten-year and Advanced (20-year plus). Over a careful debate our site moderators feel that this is the best way to divide up the lessons to help ensure your musical success. This is no means set in stone, however we feel a strong grasp of the basic's is important before moving on to the more advanced lessons.

If you new on the guitar please check out of beginner lessons, these lessons are aimed and developing the needs skills and techniques you will need as a beginner player.

The ten year section is really for intermediate players who have been playing for 10 years or so. Beginners should not work on these lessons until you have some real experience.

The advanced section is for the professional guitar player who has been playing for 20+ years and Is looking for something new.

If you ever have a question or a comment or just need to talk with someone please make a post in our forum.  We will try to get back with you quickly.

 

Beginner Lessons

Power Chords - This lesson is beginner lesson introducing the concpet of powerchords, also know as 5th chords and how to use them.

Open Chords Part II - This lesson is a continuation of Open Chords part I. This lesson introduces 7th chords, the major, minor and dominate 7th chords.

Single String Scales - This is a brief Lesson designed to get your mind thinking outside the scale box and into a linier fashion. This will tie in with other lesson in the future. 

Open Chords Part I - This is a lesson that introduces you to playing Major and Minor chords. This lesson is aimed toward the beginning player but hopefully other players will find it useful. This lesson is still in progress of being written.

Singing Lessons - In this lesson our forum moderator Jazzmaverick introduces you on how to use your voice box as an instrument

Intermediate (Ten-Years or so)

250 or so - Major Degree 'Scalling' Excercise. In this lesson we are looking at running through the major degree scales until we are running out of frets.

Scaling Up - 5 String Scales - This is the first of a series of lessons on applying 5-String Major Scale Study #1 -‘F’ to ‘F’ Modally with no 1st (High-‘E’) String

Scaling Up - Harmonic Major - This is another lessons in the 'Scaling Up' series but on the Harmonic Major Scale.

Scaling Up - Harmonic Minor - This is another lessons in the 'Scaling Up' series but on the Harmonic Major Minor.

Scaling Up - Melodic Minor - This is another lessons in the 'Scaling Up' series but on the Melodic Minor Scale.

A look at modes - Modes and Chord Shapes - In this lesson we are looking at the diffrent major modes and the chord shapes that are found inside them and how these shapes can be moved

Dual String Scales - This is an elaboration of the “One String Scales” lesson that is a little more in depth.  It follows the same goal if getting you to lookat the fret board in a different way.

Finger Picking Part 1- Is an introduction to finger picking demonstrating several different patterns. This will be part of a series that will cover different patterns and techniques.

Travis Picking - In this lesson you will learn how to travis pick the C, D, and G chords and then apply the technique to other chords.

Hybrid Technique - In this lesson our verry own forum moderator Jazzmaverick introduces you to a hybrid pick and fingerpicking technique.

Three Little Fingers - This is a continuation of our modal chord study and is an exercise to try and recondition your three little fingers.  When added to your regular practice routine you should noticed an increased strength in these fingers as well as being able to stretch more.  All in all this should really help with barring the different forms other than E and A shapes.

Advanced (Over Ten Years of Playing) Lessons