In the 1960's the Dominant 7 Suspended chord played a big role in the emerging world of modal jazz. Today, the unique sounds of the Dominant 7 Suspended chord can be heard in styles ranging from rap to country and western music.

POSTED: 05/22/2013 - 10:48 am

I came up with a great technique to motivate yourself to achieve more. Enjoy the article.

POSTED: 05/22/2013 - 07:57 am

In this lesson we are gonna take a look at the rhythmic aspect of playing guitar. It's all about getting familiar with strumming your guitar.

POSTED: 05/22/2013 - 07:13 am

Does your songwriting lack creativity? Become a more creative songwriter by reading this article and learning to use the most frequently overlooked musical element.

POSTED: 05/21/2013 - 09:07 am

With the study and application of the tips offered in this lesson players will have new ways to compose and arrange during their next songwriting session.

POSTED: 05/15/2013 - 07:11 am

A simple method for finding the key of any song, most useful for soloists.

POSTED: 05/14/2013 - 08:57 am

I will teach you ways to change up your arpeggios and also a couple new arpeggios that I use in my own playing.

POSTED: 05/10/2013 - 08:56 am

In this lesson you will learn how to transcribe a song by ear, which is a very valuable skill in a musician's life.

POSTED: 05/10/2013 - 08:01 am

To achieve success with phrasing ability, there's a mix of specific practice approaches that generally needs to be studied and eventually mastered.

POSTED: 05/10/2013 - 07:29 am

In this lesson we are gonna take a look at the basic open chords for you as a beginner.

POSTED: 05/07/2013 - 07:49 am

In this lesson, we take a look at closed voiced triads on the top 3 strings, open voiced triads, a method for learning new chord voices and how to make licks out of open voice triads.

POSTED: 05/07/2013 - 07:22 am

This exercise was given to me by my guitar teacher, this has helped me alot to pick up my speed. Hope it helps you too.

POSTED: 05/06/2013 - 10:48 am

The musical style of Guitar-Based Pop has pretty near dominated the charts for decades now. This has created a huge class of music that encompass a vast array of; guitar sounds, compositional methods and recording techniques.

POSTED: 05/02/2013 - 08:18 am

Learning notes on the fretboard always seemed impossible to me, until I tried this way.

POSTED: 05/02/2013 - 08:12 am

This is the first in a series of articles that will help you play fingerstyle guitar. In this lesson, we're going to look at the very basics in order to get started with this playing style.

POSTED: 04/30/2013 - 10:00 am

A guide to soloing for complete beginners.

POSTED: 04/30/2013 - 08:59 am

In this lesson I will teach the very basic major, minor, and diminished patterns in sweep picking. I will explain the technique and give many examples. There will be more creative sweep patterns in my lesson: "Creative Shred Ideas 02. Arpeggios".

POSTED: 04/29/2013 - 09:19 am

Learn a simple guitar soloing trick that will leave your audience speechless and force them to listen to you!

POSTED: 04/22/2013 - 10:39 am

We all know our modes in major key to be able to play across the neck, but how can we break it down even further?

POSTED: 04/22/2013 - 08:35 am

One of the most awesome guitar techniques to learn is String Bending. The guitar is one of the few instruments in which you can pitch shift notes. A nice bending technique really adds emotion and style to your riffs and licks.

POSTED: 04/22/2013 - 08:03 am

Jimmy Page and Eddie Van Halen constantly jam out classic blues-rock licks and riffs using a very cool process that combines the Mixolydian Mode and the Minor Pentatonic Scale. This unique blending process involves overlaying these two scales while also taking advantage of each of their unique melodic intervals.

POSTED: 04/22/2013 - 07:55 am

If you've never understood twelve bar blues than chances are your at a disadvantage to other guitarists. But don't stress because I have prepared a crash course in Twelve bar blues to get you understanding it in a few minutes.

POSTED: 04/17/2013 - 08:39 am

I've made my first beginner lesson on Power Chords. The video explains the power chord shape and the simple concept of moving the shapes on the neck. In conclusion I've made a small list of songs to practice.

POSTED: 04/17/2013 - 08:29 am

Ideas you can use to spice up your song and move it along. Especially if you are stuck at some point of the song with a lack of ideas on what you can do next.

POSTED: 04/15/2013 - 10:35 am

Any player who wants to increase their chord vocabulary can triple their chord knowledge by taking chords that they already know, and shift the notes of the voicings over to other string groups.

POSTED: 04/11/2013 - 04:59 am

The best way to learn all the chords in a song and master the different parts and chord changes is to use a simple, systematic approach to analyzing and memorizing all of the pieces of the song.

POSTED: 04/10/2013 - 09:26 am

Ideas you can use to further the development of your song right away.

POSTED: 04/10/2013 - 08:51 am

In this lesson I'm going to talk about 3 octave scales and different patterns you can use to play scales in a more creative way.

POSTED: 04/10/2013 - 08:20 am

I will teach you ways to organize scales in order to be more creative within your soloing or songs. I will also teach you a couple of my ideas on the scales.

POSTED: 04/10/2013 - 08:02 am

Bored of the 1-2-3-4 or 0-1-4 exercises? Wanna learn riffs which strengthen your pinky and sound cool at the same time? This is the article for you.

POSTED: 04/05/2013 - 10:04 am

In this lesson we will look at the sixth scale pattern within E minor. We will also cover string skipping with the use tapping.

POSTED: 04/05/2013 - 09:12 am

Another one in the series. This one is about Resolutions and Melodic Voicings.

POSTED: 04/05/2013 - 08:25 am

Jazz-funk style is extremely guitar orientated music that places a lot of weight upon jazz theory. This style of Funk can offer sensitive dynamics along with unique applications of dominant and minor-mode harmony.

POSTED: 04/05/2013 - 05:29 am

Developing 4-string sweeps to spice up your lead playing.

POSTED: 04/04/2013 - 10:15 am

In this lesson, I will show you a simple way to use some basic warm up exercises to combine them together to create a new whole exercise that will super charge your warming up.

POSTED: 04/04/2013 - 10:04 am

Not to say you can become great without picking up a guitar. But you can develop important mental skills that will enhance your playing.

POSTED: 04/03/2013 - 09:40 am

Stretching your fingers like you never stretched them before.

POSTED: 04/02/2013 - 09:07 am

In this new series I'll be looking at developing the Blues beyond the standard Blues scale, with examples that are influenced by blues greats and can be used to expand your playing.

POSTED: 04/02/2013 - 08:46 am

A guide to most techniques required for playing the guitar including both Practical and Theory.

POSTED: 04/02/2013 - 08:26 am

Teaching the very basics to people who have never played a guitar ever before.

POSTED: 04/02/2013 - 08:07 am

This lesson discusses several interesting extended and suspended chords that can substitute for the basic open position, C, F, and G chords. These unique chord voicings can be excellent for anyone who wants to play as a soloist, (with the guitar backing up their vocal parts).

POSTED: 04/02/2013 - 07:55 am

Using arpeggios in playing rhythm parts might help you stand out a bit, and explore additional ways to spice up your music.

POSTED: 03/29/2013 - 07:14 am

This blog is for beginner Rock Prodigy students. The Milestones are all about playing music with what you've learned so far.

POSTED: 03/25/2013 - 10:47 am

We will look at the 5th scale pattern in E minor. We will also look to extend our Alternate Picking and Legato techniques with string skipping.

POSTED: 03/25/2013 - 10:47 am

Second part of songwriting techniques guide.

POSTED: 03/25/2013 - 10:37 am

I find these scales both fun and helpful in improving your speed and accuracy.

POSTED: 03/25/2013 - 10:32 am

Generating a locked-in tonal center through the use of a drone string is both a fun and a unique compositional tool. The drone allows for melodic movement with a constant tonal center acting to lock-in the tonality.

POSTED: 03/25/2013 - 10:26 am

Unlock your brain - throw away those useless 1234 exercises and defeat the evils of noodling.

POSTED: 03/22/2013 - 10:23 am

In this third part of the series we'll be looking at a technique known as Substitution, or Superimposition, and how you can use this in your playing, as well as the most basic use of the Lydian Dominant scale in a II, V, I progression.

POSTED: 03/15/2013 - 09:34 am

I'm sure most of you know your basic chords. However, even if you know these chords, what do they mean? How are they used? How do you make these chords fit into one another?

POSTED: 03/15/2013 - 09:03 am