These lessons will teach you to make the most of your regular chords. We'll learn 9 Major chord inversions and 9 Minor chord inversions and put them into real time. This will put real spice in your rhythm and lead guitar.

The span of John Mayer's career from his aggressive-acoustic beginnings to his modern finger style approach showcases a player whose diversity has earned him the respect of guitar greats and the general public alike.  Focusing on his acoustic guitar style, this tutorial provides 10 examples, all of which showcase a different element of John's unique approach to the instrument.  By the end of the...

By the end of this tutorial you should be able to play 12 Bar Blues in Country Style using Open chords.

By the end of this tutorial you should be able to play more examples of 12 Bar Blues in Country Style using Barre Chords rooted on the A string.

By the end of this tutorial you should understand how to play 12 Bar Blues Form in a Country Style. The Nashville Number System is also introduced as an important concept.

In this lesson, we’ll practice playing a 12 Bar Blues progression in the key of D#, using barre chords. We’ll play an eighth note rhythm pattern, and use the palm muting technique. I’ll be playing the same blues progression in the key of D#, using palm muted eighth notes, following this pattern: //: I / I / I / I / / IV / IV / I / I / / V / V / I / I :// ...

This is the intro to the Dobro slide tutorial You will learn to use Drop D tuning and learn chord voicings suitable for playing slide guitar. You will learn musical phrases and then see how those are constructed out of pentatonic, blues scales and chord tones. We will discuss amp settings to get a great tone.

Here we are starting to put things together and shall give some inspiration and ideas to create some jazzy lines which sound great. Last but not least this is what it is all about in jazz and gypsy jazz guitar. Below you find a track where you can practice this lesson here.

The whammy bar is typically used for creating a vibrato effect. It can also be used to create dives on notes or chords that are not possible without it. This lesson illustrates use of the whammy bar to create whole step dives for a rockabilly intro.

Hot Rod Rockabilly is a more rock and roll version of the basic rockabilly style. Add some distortion with a rock beat to hot rod your Rockabilly.