In this tutorial we will learn a solo classical guitar arrangement of the "Lullaby Waltz" Op. 49 No. 4 by classical composer Johannes Brahms.

This tune features 1 acoustic and 1 electric guitar. The acoustic strums the chord progressions throughout, while the electric adds single note parts to add some texture to the arrangement. This song uses double stops, single note motifs, open chords and steady acoustic strum approaches.

Palm muting is a picking hand technique that's an essential element of rock style guitar playing. In this set of lessons we'll learn all about where, how and when to palm mute with a lot of practical examples to make your rock rhythm playing more interesting and musical.

There are 2 electric guitars in this song. Guitar 1 lays the foundation with a rhythm riff throughout the song, while Guitar 2 digs into some exciting blues rock licks in the solo. This song uses barre chords, blues based riffing, steady strum approaches, and some killer early rock licks.

Open chords are often overshadowed by more advanced concepts, but when used right they’re one of the most epic tools we have in our rock rhythm and riff vocabulary. In this tutorial we’ll explore three open chord voicings used in rock and you’ll see just how much stadium-worthy mileage you can get out of these relatively simple building blocks.

There is 1 electric guitar in this song that switches between clean and distorted tones throughout. You’ll need to tune your guitar one half-step down, then drop the low string an additional whole step to play along with this tutorial. This song uses dropped tuning power chords, combining chord strums with single note motifs, melodic lead approaches, and dynamics.

In the following tutorial, we’ll enhance your rock riffing skills by seamlessly integrating single notes, diads, and pedal roots into your power chord progressions. We’ll play through examples of each approach, and finish up with a practice tune that combines everything we’ve learned.

A 12 string acoustic guitar was used on the original recording, but any guitar - acoustic or electric can be used to play this song. This song uses barre chords and open chords, chord arpeggiation, and steady strumming approaches.

In this tutorial we will learn a classical guitar style arrangement of the main themes from the 'Nutcracker March' by Tchaikovsky.

There are 3 guitar layers in this song. Guitar 1 is a clean electric guitar that plays some solid rhythm riffing throughout. Guitar 2 is an overdriven electric guitar that adds some tasty lead work. Guitar 3 adds some harmony leads to the outro solo. This song uses extended chords, syncopated strumming, and some textbook classic rock soloing.

This tune features 1 acoustic and 1 clean electric guitar. The acoustic strums the chord progressions, while the electric adds slide fills using an open A tuning. You’ll need a slide to play along with the electric parts in this tutorial. This song uses open chords and barre chords, 16th note syncopated strumming, slide approaches in an open tuning, and dynamics.

Christopher will show you a two guitar arrangement of this classic jazz tune. Guitar 1 is a rhythm guitar part playing the chord progression. Guitar 2 is a lead guitar part playing the single note melody of the song. Guitar 2 also plays a solo that is based on the melody with embellishments. This is a great opportunity to learn how to use some extended harmony chords in a song setting, how to learn to embellish a melody with some typical lead guitar vocabulary in an early jazz style.

This tune features 1 acoustic and 1 clean electric guitar. The acoustic strums the chords throughout the tune, while the electric adds arpeggiated notes and lines. This song uses open chords, an eighth-note triplet strumming pattern, simple riffing off of root notes using slides, and palm muted arpeggiations.

There are 3 electric guitars in this song. Guitar 1 is the main rhythm guitar that plays simple riffs throughout the tune. Guitar 2 is the lead guitar that digs into plenty of bluesy solos, while Guitar 3 is a clean electric guitar that plays some single note lines and diad riffs throughout. This song uses barre chords and power chords, funky diad riffing and single note lines, and some textbook bluesy rock soloing.

In the following lessons, we’ll learn steady arpeggiation, rhythmic variations, and adding melodies to your arpeggiation patterns. We’ll play through examples of each concept, and finish up with a practice tune that combines them all.

The tune features 1 acoustic and 1 clean electric guitar. The acoustic strums the chords throughout, while the electric adds some country and blues tinged riffing to add texture to the arrangement. This song uses open chords and extended chords, strumming with a country swing groove, double stops, and bluesy riffing approaches.

There is just one electric guitar in this song arpeggiating and strumming the iconic progressions throughout. This song uses open chords, chord arpeggiation and strumming with a 12/8 feel, and dynamics.

In the following lessons, we’ll explore steady strumming, combined strum rhythms, and add rests into our strum patterns. We’ll play through some examples, and turn those examples into a practice tune that combines everything we’ve learned.

There are 2 electric guitars in this song. Guitar 1 is a clean electric guitar that lays down a steady single note boogie line through the 12 bar blues form. Guitar 2 is an overdriven electric guitar that adds some high energy fills and a guitar solo to the arrangement. This song uses an 8th note triplet swing rhythm, single note boogie lines, and some killer bluesy lead guitar approaches.

In this tutorial we will learn a classical guitar style arrangement of Pachelbel's 'Canon In D'.

In this tutorial we'll learn how to play barre chords. We’ll start with the mechanics of using our index finger to barre, then learn how to move it around the fretboard as a movable capo. This idea enables us to play commonly used Major and Minor chord shapes all over the fretboard.

There is 1 clean electric guitar in this song that strums the progressions with a laid back swing groove. This song uses barre chords and extended chords, and steady strums with a swing groove.

There is 1 clean electric guitar in this song that strums the progressions with a laid back swing groove. This song uses barre chords and seventh chords, and steady strums with a swing groove.

Christopher will show you a two guitar arrangement of this classic jazz tune. Guitar 1 is a rhythm guitar part playing the chord progression. Guitar 2 is a lead guitar part playing the single note melody of the song. Guitar 2 also plays a solo that is based on the melody with embellishments. Both guitar parts use some elements of gypsy jazz style playing. This is a great opportunity to learn how to use some extended harmony chords in a song setting, how to learn to embellish a melody with some typical lead guitar vocabulary in an early jazz style.

There are 4 guitar layers in this song. Guitar 1 is a clean electric guitar that strums the chord progressions throughout, while Guitar 2 is an acoustic guitar that adds another layer of strumming. Guitars 3 and 4 are clean lead guitars that add a quick melodic motif to the arrangement. This song uses open chords and barre chords, chord arpeggiation, quick hammer-ons, and some solid strumming approaches.

In this tutorial we'll craft a song as we learn some new techniques. We'll learn an incredibly important technique called the roll. At the end of this tutorial we’re going to put all these elements together and learn a song.

There are two electric guitar layers in this song. Guitar 1 provides the foundation of the tune, playing riffs and strumming chords so hard the strings are getting pulled out of tune! Guitar 2 adds some aggressive lead guitar and wild guitar noises to the fray. This song uses rock riffing, aggressive strumming, and some great lead guitar.

In this tutorial we'll learn some basic elements of jazz lead guitar. We'll play some lines that demonstrate jazz vocabulary over a common major key chord progression. One of the central elements of jazz guitar soloing is playing the changes. This means targeting certain notes within a scale that outline each chord in the progression. When playing the changes, you can emphasize chord tones and then embellish by using other scalar and chromatic notes.

In this tutorial I'm going to show you some basic elements of jazz lead guitar. We'll learn a couple lead lines to play over a common minor chord progression. Our lines will showcase jazz elements such as utilizing chord tones, passing tones, and swing rhythm. We’ll use these elements to build lines we can use over each chord in our progression. Then we'll start practicing these lines to a backing track so we can start to get comfortable playing them and eventually incorporate them into our playing.

In this tutorial we will play a solo classical guitar arrangement of the main theme to Tchaikovsky's 'Pathetique' Symphony.

There are 2 unique sounding, fuzzed out electric guitars that dig into some aggressive riffing and leads throughout the arrangement. You’ll need a capo placed at the 2nd fret to play along with this tutorial. This song uses boogie riffing, a swung 8ths feel, double stops and power chords, and some aggressive lead guitar approaches.

The tune features 1 clean electric guitar that plays mostly staccato chord stabs throughout. There is also an electric dulcimer on the recording that we’ve adapted over to an electric guitar. You’ll need a capo placed on the 3rd fret to play these parts. This song uses extended chords and barre chords, staccato stab strums, and the use of a capo.

This is a two guitar arrangement of this classic jazz song. Guitar 1 is a rhythm guitar part playing the chord progression. Guitar 2 is a lead guitar part playing the single note melody of the song. Guitar 2 also plays a solo that is based on the melody with embellishments. This is a great opportunity to learn how to use some extended harmony chords in a song setting, how to learn to embellish a melody with some typical lead guitar vocabulary in an early jazz style.

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There is 1 slightly overdriven electric guitar strumming chords and riffs throughout the tune. The guitar is tuned to open D tuning. This song uses open D chord shapes and embellishments, and some steady strummed approaches.

There are 2 guitars in this tune. Guitar 1 is an acoustic guitar that strums the chord progressions throughout. Guitar 2 is a clean electric guitar that adds some fills later in the arrangement. This song uses open chords and barre chords, dominant seventh chords, double stops, steady acoustic strumming, and dynamics.

Rock music features plenty of power and energy, so we’ll crank it up and dive into the basics to help you achieve signature rock rhythm guitar techniques. In the following lessons, we’ll explore 8th and 16th note strumming using downstrokes and upstrokes, palm muting and accents, as well as ghost strums. We’ll play through plenty of examples, and finish up with a practice tune that combines everything we’ve learned.

In this tutorial, you’re going to learn to incorporate bass motion into your fingerstyle playing. In some places we’ll use bass notes that aren’t the root note of the chord. This opens the door to endless possibilities for your chord progressions, how they move from chord to chord, and also what emotions they evoke.

The tune features 1 acoustic and 1 clean electric guitar. The acoustic strums and riffs throughout the tune, while the electric adds some slide guitar embellishment with open G tuning. This song uses open chords, steady strumming, chord embellishments and riffing, and some simple slide approaches in an open tuning.

There are 2 guitars in this song. Guitar 1 is an electric guitar that switches between clean and crunch tones throughout. Guitar 2 is an acoustic guitar that adds an additional texture to the arrangement. You’ll need to tune your guitar ½ step down, then drop the low string an additional step to play along with this tutorial. This song uses single note riffs, dropped power chord shapes, steady acoustic strumming approaches, and dynamics.

This tutorial covers how to play the open A, D and E major chord voicings in a rock rhythm guitar style. These are basic chords that all beginners learn, but we’ll learn how to adapt them to be played with an overdriven rock tone and with the energy and attitude required to play them in a rock style. We’ll learn how to fret and strum each chord, and about how to mute strings with both hands so that we are always in control of which strings ring out. We’ll go over the common problems beginners run into with this technique, and how to solve them. After learning the chords, we’ll play them along with a backing track so that we can start making music with them right away and put what we learn into practice.

This tune features 1 acoustic and 1 clean electric guitar. The acoustic strums and arpeggiates the chords, while the electric plays single note riffs and light chord strums throughout. This song uses open chords, steady strumming, chord arpeggiation, and single note riffing.

In this tutorial we'll learn a 16 bar blues in C. We'll play rhythm and lead guitar parts. We'll also use some jazzy elements to spice up the turnaround.

This tune features 1 electric and 1 acoustic guitar. The electric guitar plays staccato chord stabs and fuzzed out power chords, while the acoustic strums barre chords throughout. This song uses open and barre chords, triads, and staccato strumming.

There are 2 electric guitars in this song. Guitar 1 holds down the rhythm with plenty of chord embellishments and fills, while Guitar 2 adds sparse fills and the main solo. This song uses open chords and barre chords, strummed rhythm approaches with embellishments and fills, and some textbook bluesy rock leads.

The tune features 2 slightly overdriven electric guitars. Guitar 1 plays the main rhythm, while Guitar 2 uses open D tuning to play a simple slide riff throughout. This song uses a blues shuffle feel, boogie riffing, dynamics, and slide with an open D tuning.

In this tutorial we will learn and play an 8 bar blues. We'll use a classic ascending chord progression, then add some circle of fifths motion to give it a slightly R&B or jazzy sound. We'll also learn some classic bluesy licks to play over the progression following the chord changes.

The tune features 2 clean electric guitars. Guitar 1 plays the main rhythm, while Guitar 2 is a 12 string electric guitar that adds some single note melodies throughout. A 12 string guitar is ideal, but not necessary to play these parts. This song uses double stops, open chords, single note ornamentations, and some steady strumming approaches.

The Pinch Pattern uses a pinching motion between your ring finger and your thumb moving together, then the remaining fingers are used to arpeggiate more of the chord. This is the next step in developing your picking hand technique because it’s a widely used pattern found in many songs.