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Free guitar lessons:
These are some free guitar lessons I have been adding to my site and to my Youtube channel since 2008. I tend to add more at random intervals, as this is a one man operation. If you feel you have any questions or you enjoy my style of teaching get in touch for a skype lesson.
The Masterplan
From the major scale to (hopefully) understanding how things work.
- From the chromatic scale to the major scale
- The Major Scale on guitar
- Intervals Explained
- From the major scale to the harmonized scale (Pt.1 triads)
- Understanding how triads and other chords are built
- From the major scale to the harmonized scale (Pt.2 7th chords)
- Simple song analyzed
- Chord scale exercise
- Basic Music Theory for Beginners
- Basic Music Theory for Beginners Pt 2:on Guitar, Practical Application.
- Triads
- Triads Pt 2 Spread Voicings
- Intervals Explained pt 2: practical application on guitar.
- Harmonized major scale with 7th chords on guitar
- Most used 7th guitar chord shapes
The Blues
- 3 simple 12 bar blues forms
- Basic pentatonic major-minor
- More Advanced Blues stuff (the Miles/Robben thing)
- Advanced Blues stuff Pt 2 – Solo Explained
- How to comp on a Blues Jazz Progression
- Minor Blues
Getting it all together
- Play a pop solo
- Phrasing – Build your own vocabulary of melodic material
- Basic Music Theory for Beginners
- Basic Music Theory for Beginners Pt 2:on Guitar, Practical Application.
- The CAGED system: Connect Chords, Shapes, Scales, Arpeggios and Phrases.
The Jazzy stuff (but good for every style!)
- 2-5-1 Pt1:Explanation
- 2-5-1 Pt2:Examples
- Adding Chromatic Approach Notes
- Interval Color for Soloing
- 2-5-1 minor
- 7th Arpeggios
- Connecting 7th arpeggios with scales
- Expand your vocabulary Pt1
- Expand your vocabulary Pt2
- Easy standard jazz song analyzed
- How to transpose
- Modes of major scale pt1
- Modes of major scale pt2
- Modes of major scale pt3
- Modes of major scale Pt4
- Note Choice
- Chord Scale Relationship, a Practical Tip.
- Tritone Substitution/Passing Chords
- Harmonic Major Scale
- Triad Pairs – Examples
- How to use the Diminished Scale Pt 1
- How to use the Diminished Scale Pt 2
- Jazz guitar: Altered Chords Pt1
- Jazz guitar: Altered Chords Pt2
- Tips: play Giant Steps on guitar
- Playing in Fourths
- Melodic Development – How to make your solos more interesting
- How to add Chord Extensions PT1
- CHORD EXTENSIONS PT2
- A useful Bebop Lick
- How to solo over jazz standards #1 – Stella
Special Topics
- Considerations on practicing – the power of your mind.
- On how to find new and original material
- Open Strings Voicings
- Playing with a Slide – Tips
- Harmonics on guitar
- Jog Scale
- How to use a capo – different approaches
- Power Chords – From Basic to more advanced structures
- Advice on sound: Creative noises
- More open strings voicings – Hall Goes West
- Layers
- Recycling melodic material
- 3 Notes Per String Pentatonic
- 3NPS Pentatonic Fingerings
- Using Different Guitar Picks
- Triad Combinations (also known as Triad Pairs)
- The Importance of Repertoire
- Funk Guitar Comping Tips
- Factorial Thinking (Combinations applied to music)
- Funk Guitar Comping Tips Pt2 Ghost Notes and Muted Notes
- Swing Technique – Jazz Articulation on guitar
- Strumming ‘In Four’ With Bassline
- Playing ‘Out’
- How to Play the ‘Walk of life’ Groove on guitar
- Shoulder Stretches
- 10 tips on Practising Guitar
- Not Happy With Your Tuning? How To Fine Tune Your Guitar
- Trading Solos PT1
- Trading Solos PT2
- Trading Solos PT3
- Build Your Own Musical Vocabulary
- Mic’d Acoustic Guitar Sound From Piezo wth IRs
- FULL FIRST GUITAR LESSON FOR COMPLETE BEGINNER – LEARN TO PLAY A SIMPLE TUNE ON GUITAR
- 6 TIPS ON HOW TO LEARN NOTES ON GUITAR NECK
- First Guitar Lesson – For Beginners (with pictures)
Technical Exercises
- Guitar Technique: Left Hand Posture Tips
- Guitar Technique: Rhythms
- Finger combinations Pt.1
- Finger combinations Pt.2 – the next level
- Never-ending chromatic scale
- Spider with a twist
- Right hand Technique – inside/outside picking
- Right Hand Exercise – Just RH
- Right hand strum – different divisions/accents
- Bending exercises
- Vibrato – A few different approaches
- Legato: Technique and Exercise
- Pat Metheny Clinic and Chromatic scale Exercise
- 5 ways to improve your guitar technique
- How to Hold Guitar Pick + Right Hand Technique Tips
- Right Hand Technique – Posture – Fingerstyle
- Guitar exercise #1 – scale lowest to highest
- Guitar exercise #3 and #4 – mini positions and ‘Descending up’ scale.
- Can’t reach that fret? 3 tips on stretching and position playing.
Backing Tracks
- MrG Blues Backing Tracks Vol 2 – Funk and Soul
- MrG Blues Backing Tracks Vol 3 Rock Blues
- Free Backing Track – Slow 12 Bar Blues in E From Volume 1
- Free Guitar Backing Track – Funk Track in A From Volume 2
- Free Guitar Backing Track – Rock Blues JamTrack in G From Volume 3
- Free Guitar Backing Track – Shuffle Blues Track in A From Volume 4
- Free Guitar Backing Track – Slow Blues Track in C From Volume 5
- Some videos of guitarists using MrG Blues Tracks Backing Tracks
- Backing track companies
- Jam Tracks
A day in the life of a musician
- On how to find the best gig for you as a guitarist/musician
- Musician’s Health
- A self-promoting musician’s Press Kit
- 5 Ways To Improve Your Sight Reading
- The Importance of Repertoire
- A list of the most popular jazz standards
- Check List for the forgetful Guitarist
- Posture, Warm ups, Stretching and Health for the Working Guitarist.
- So you want to play guitar on a cruise ship? Some hints and tips.
Books Reviews
- The Advancing Guitarist – by Mick Goodrich – Review
- 5 Ways To Improve Your Sight Reading
- More Ted Green Videos!
Guest Post
- Getting into the studio by Guy Gardner
- The artist, the businessman and the spiritually fulfilled – Making a living out of music by Mike Relf
- Being a Freelance Guitar Player in NYC, 2010 by John Shannon
- Jazz Camp Wraps Up, Good Teachers vs. Good Motivators – By James Danderfer
- Tempo Memory – By Mike Outram
- Guest Post: 5 Great Tips (and one extra little one) for Haggling with Musicians
- Larry Carlton Guitar lesson
Tips and Online finds
- Practice tips: the 12 Marsalis Rules
- 5 Great Sites to Improve Your Music Reading Skills on Guitar
- New Guitar Tuner that lets you tune ALL the strings at once!!
- The Legacy Of Ted Greene
- Jazz-Rock, Fusion, Jazz and blues Guitar Backing tracks
- 55 riffs that you must know as a working guitarist
- 10 Classic guitar solos you should know
- Great free online resources for ear training and rhythm training.
- Polytune – innovative guitar tuner – the finished product.
- Transpose songs in different keys the easy way
- How to make your own guitar pedals
- The Guitar Kit V2.0 – Updated and Improved!
- A self-promoting musician’s Press Kit
- February Promo for ‘Contemporary Blues Soloing’ Ebook – Buy £5 only!
- 5 Mistakes of the rookie live musician/guitarist
- Playing guitar with strange objects
- New guitar game: ‘Guitar Hero’ killer?
- New Youtube Channel and Microsite for Blues Backing tracks
- Evertune…the last time you will ever tune your guitar?
- Stretching to avoid RSI
- Metheny-Mehldau ‘All the thing you are’
- George Benson playing Affirmation
- Eric Clapton Steve Winwood Live – Voodoo Chile
- MrG Blues Backing Tracks Vol 2 OUT NOW!
- Guitar T-shirt that plays like a guitar!
- Herbie Hancock, Susan Tedeschi, Vinnie Colaiuta, Derek Trucks – Space Captain
- Pat Metheny Clinic and Chromatic scale Exercise
- Larry Carlton lesson on Diminished scale
- Allan Holdsworth and Gordon Beck – The Things You See.
- Guitar Great Vic Juris: A couple of great video lessons.
- Line 6 Double Preset Mod
- 5 Free Online Metronomes that work flawlessly.
- 5 Ways To Improve Your Sight Reading
- A tool to improve your improvising skills.
- A list of the most popular jazz standards
- TC Electronic Toneprint Pedals
- Guest Post: 5 Great Tips (and one extra little one) for Haggling with Musicians
- Tips to adjust your guitar pickups height and balance
- Steve Vai’s Online Record Guitar Lesson
- Hyper Touch Guitar by Givingshape
- Monk’s rules for his band
- Great lesson on Pentatonics from Scott Henderson
- Autotune for guitar?
- Ted Greene Talks about Lenny Breau and his Techniques
- How to setup your electric guitar
- Google tribute to Les Paul
- Bebop Guitar: Practice the most famous Charlie Parker’s Tunes
- Most useful guitar chords to learn
- Check List for the forgetful Guitarist
- Posture, Warm ups, Stretching and Health for the Working Guitarist.
- 30 Days to build a habit
- More Ted Green Videos!
- Nile Rodgers Masterclass
- Build your Strat of your dreams!
- True Bypass vs Buffers
- Thoughts on Guitar Amp live EQ Settings
- Considerations for a better guitar tone.
- Constructive Criticism – No Negative Thinking.
- Shoulder Stretches
- Wayne Krantz: How to Practice with a Metronome
- How we hear Sound, Notes and Pitch.
- Not Happy With Your Tuning? How To Fine Tune Your Guitar
- Greg Koch Full Guitar Clinic
Pedals – Gear
- Line 6 Double Preset Mod
- TC Electronic Toneprint Pedals
- True Bypass vs Buffers
- Documentary on Wah Pedal
- How to record silently at home with a tube amp and a load box
- Using Acoustic Guitar Impulse Responses with MOOER RADAR pedal
- How to load custom Impulse Responses on Mooer Radar Pedal
- Rodenberg GAS 828 OVERDRIVE Pedal demo
- Custom Guitar Cabinet Impulse Responses
- Vlog – Alone together – DV MARK Little Jazz Demo
- In ears with IRs+Amp split signal with Line 6 HX FX
- Lovepedal OD11 Appreciation post