"Tears From Above" is a Texas blues inspired solo with plenty of nods to Stevie Ray Vaughan. As with all ten of these solos, there's plenty of call and response...
I'm basically going to be playing over the changes of Electric Gypsy. D major, A major, B minor, G major, and that just keeps repeating. When I play it live tha...
The first tune is "Drifting", inspired by the playing of the guitarist Preston Reed. The song features some unusual percussion, and the left-hand is playing abo...
Luys Milán lived in Spain during the Renaissance. "Pavan 1" was originally written for the instrument Milán played, the vihuela, a Spanish instrument similar to...
There are more guitar players today with incredible technical chops then ever before. Yet, so many of their solos and improvisations sound a bit dry and lifeles...
One of the beautiful things about playing fingerstyle guitar is that the raw techniques themselves open up a world of possibilities that aren’t physically or mu...
The two biggest mistakes I see students make when learning how to play guitar is failing to master their fundamentals and not developing good techniqu...
One of my favorite go-to scales of recent years, especially when playing in the context of a dominant 7th chord is a rather splendid hybrid pentatonic scale tha...
I play approximately 200 solo performer gigs a year with an acoustic/ electric guitar, percussion loops, vocals and a looper. Physically it’s a challenge to pla...
Over the years I have grown a greater appreciation for the blues and ways that one can expand on their vocabulary choices in soloing. That may sound a bit backw...
When you first start playing guitar, there are usually two tracts of study you will encounter. Playing Chords. This is of course where most players start as it ...
Example 1: Using a diagonal scale is a very effective way to move through multiple scale box patterns. We'll start with the A Major diagonal pentatonic scale as...
I'm often asked by other guitarists about some of the more eastern-sounding things that I incorporate in my playing and music. My first introduction to Indian m...
When it comes to lead guitar playing, a common approach is to play the pentatonic scale or the blues scale over a chord progression. This is especially common i...
Some of the most complex licks or passages have simple origins and sometimes curiously interesting influences. Where did they come from? How can I make it my ow...
While working on compiling the content for my “Rhythm Factory: Acoustic Rock” course, I thought that it was important to have something inspired by the techniqu...
You know as guitar players we are often obsessed with learning new scales. We think if we can just master Hungarian Minor or the Dominant Pentatonic scale that ...
Ah, boxes…and it’s not even Christmas yet!
Box shapes are easy: two notes per string and two fingers plucking in the right hand. It’s super comfortable and l...
As guitarists we are consistently working on our soloing skills with the pentatonic scale, the blues scale, various modes and more, but one sound we should defi...
Early Rockabilly can be boiled down to just a marriage of rock and hillbilly music. Some of it can be thought of as the orchestration of boogie piano. The other...
The role of the bass player in a rock setting is critical -- you’ve got to lock up with the drummer rhythmically to establish the groove, and at the same time, ...
Slide guitar would not be slide guitar without Elmore James. He played in open D tuning a lot and that is what we are using on this tune as well. I love open D ...
