This tutorial is about extended harmony chords. This covers types of 11th and 13th chords. This tutorial assumes you already know & can play 7th and 9th chord forms & shapes. ...

In this tutorial, consisting of 15 lessons I will show you some of my favorite chord progressions. After each explanation and a bit of theory, we will play an example with a...

This tutorial is about extended harmony chords. We will learn types of 9th chords. This tutorial assumes you already know & can play those more basic 7th chord forms & shapes. ...

This tutorial is about extended harmony chords. This covers more types of 7th chords beyond dominant 7ths, major 7ths and minor 7ths. This tutorial assumes you already know &...

This tutorial will break down riffs from the inside out so that you learn to SEE them as well as HEAR them. This will help you get the most out of this course as well as the...

These lessons explore simple riff composition based on a two chord progression. This is the kind of progression you would play at a jam session with friends or when sitting in...

Material from this tutorial builds upon material from the previous two tutorial sessions, Double Stops - How They Work and More About Double Stops. This tutorial introduces 5ths...

Parallel thirds (double stops) are commonly used in many styles of guitar playing. Both non-inverted and inverted thirds are used. Unfortunately, it's not a nice and neatly...

In this tutorial we will use some of the barred & moveable dominant 7th chord shapes in practicing. The goal here is to play & switch between these chords in time with a backing...

In this four lesson tutorial, the student will learn the theory, the mechanics, and the fingerings of double stops and why they work as they do. Simply put, double stops are the...

In this tutorial we are going to explore to sound of the 12 bar form in the context of the blues. Step by step, we will go from playing through the 12 bar form with basic open...

In this tutorial I'm going to show you some alternative "voicings" of the chords used in the blues. When you arrange the notes of your chords differently, take out or add certain...

In this tutorial, I'm going to introduce you to the world of triads, inversions, arpeggios, and chord extensions. We'll take a very thorough, step-by-step approach working with...

This tutorial will demonstrate how to take the three tonal centers of the 12 Bar Blues (the I, IV, and V chords) and create great rock riffs based on each one. We'll borrow these...

This series of lessons will demonstrate how to create and use a bluesy feel over progressions that are not in the 12 Bar Blues Form.

We'll take the 12 Bar Blues Form reviewed in the first lesson and treat it with the style of artists such as Jack Johnson and the Counting Crows to demonstrate how rock artists...

This series of lessons will demonstrate the composition of riffs using open chords and their variations, barre chords and power chords.

Scale tones make open chords sound mean, sweet, or symphonic. This technique is used by the best, therefore you should use this to convince your sweetheart you love her/him or to...

Often we play chord progressions that are predictable and boring. Inversions are a way to break up the old sound of over used chord progressions and to add a new interesting...

This tutorial will teach more difficult ways of playing riffs using power chords and more complex rhythmic ideas.

Riffs are a standard part of the Rock vocabulary. This series of lessons will define riffs and teach the fundamentals of building solid riffs using the barre chord as a basic...

This tutorial on B-bender guitar was inspired by a subscriber in the forum, that had recently gotten one of these guitars. I'll show you several ways to use a B-bender with open...

In this series, we'll teach you what a power chord is, how to pull a power chord out of any major or minor barre chord, and how to put that power into some great examples.

In this series of lessons we'll learn the essential technique of arpeggiation, or how to break chords apart, using barre chords.