12 Bar Blues

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In this guitar lesson I will show you a great sounding and easy to play 12 bar blues chord progression.

A Hands Down Cool Lick  

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In this guitar lesson I will show you a creative technique for coming up with great sounding riffs!

A minor point  

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This exercise looks at a common chord progression and applies it to harmonic minor.

Alternate Picking Ex. 1  

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This is the first of the alternate picking exercises and should get you well on your way to high picking speeds!

Alternate Picking Ex. 2  

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This alternate picking exercise is a must for developing scale chops.

Alternate Picking Ex. 3  

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This alternate picking exercise is designed to get all 4 fretboard fingers in the picture.

Alternate Picking Ex. 4  

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This alternate picking exercise reinforces exercise 3. The exercise will ensure that you have no trouble playing 4-note-per-string patterns.

Alternate Picking Ex. 5  

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This exercise focuses on playing triplet patterns.

Alternate Universe  

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If you are familiar with sweep picking, then forget everything you've learned about playing arpeggios with sweeps. This exercise has you alternate picking an arpeggio sequence, and will do wonders for your alternate picking chops.

Alternate Universe, Part 2  

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In this month's online guitar lesson, we return to a concept that I demonstrated several months ago - alternate picking arpeggios. This guitar exercise will surely take your alternate picking skills to new heights!

Another classical guitar study  

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In this month's guitar lesson we return to flatpicked classical guitar as a means to build alternate picking chops.

Arpeggio Madness, Part 1  

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In this guitar lesson we will focus on arpeggio technique by using a classical piece from the brilliant composer Heitor Villa Lobos.

Arpeggio Madness, Part 2

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In this guitar lesson we will look at the next 4 measures of Villa Lobos's Etude 2. Etude 2 is a superb study of arpeggios and this guitar lesson will have you burning up the fretboard in no time!

Bach Prelude in Dm - Part 1  

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This guitar lesson revisits classical music as a means to continue the never ending quest to achieve technical mastery on the guitar. The guitar lesson uses Bach's Prelude in Dm as a basis for further developing alternate picking technique.

Bach Prelude in Dm - Part 2  

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This guitar lesson is a follow on from my previous guitar lesson. In the previous guitar lesson we loked at the opening bars of Bach's Prelude in Dm. In this lesson we look at the entire piece.