Popular Guitar Lessons
Triad Arpeggios - 2 Strings
In this guitar lesson, I will talk about the basics of triad arpeggios and show you some useful 2 string shapes for burning up the fretboard!
| Exercise | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Major Triad - Two Strings (plus an explanation of inversions) Guest Visitor Access | Medium |
| We start our journey into the wild world of arpeggios with this Major Triad Arpeggio exercise, which will help build the needed foundation to move on to the more advanced guitar lessons. | |
| Minor Triad - Two Strings | Medium |
| In this exercise we continue our triad arpeggio guitar lesson by looking at the Minor Triad and its inversions, and the various ways that you can play it on two strings. | |
| Diminished Triad - Two Strings | Hard |
| In this triad arpeggio exercise, we look at the sinister sounding diminished triad on two strings, which will have us doing some serious reaching for notes! | |
| Two String Triad Arpeggios Etude | Insane |
| In this exercise I will show you how we can combine the triad arpeggio shapes from this guitar lesson in a musical way. | |
Introduction to the Major Scale
In this guitar lesson I will introduce you to the major scale as well as show you some ways to play a Major Scale on the fretboard, focusing on playing throughout the fretboard.
| Exercise | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Useful shape for a Major Scale plus fast position shifting technique! Guest Visitor Access | Medium |
| In this exercise, I will go over some basics behind the Major Scale, show you one shape of a Major Scale and how to play it in multiple locations on the fretboard, as well as show you how to develop fast position shifting technique. | |
Seventh Arpeggios - Cool Sounding Patterns on Two Strings
In this arpeggios guitar lesson, we will go beyond basic triad arpeggios and enter the sonically cool world of seventh arpeggios.
| Exercise | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Major 7th Arpeggio on Two Strings Guest Visitor Access | Medium |
| In this exercise we expand what we know about triad arpeggios and look at a major 7th arpeggio and how to play it on two strings for some cool sounds! | |
| Minor 7th Arpeggio on Two Strings Guest Visitor Access | Medium |
| In this exercise, we take a look at Minor 7th arpeggios and inversions on two strings | |
| Dominant 7th Arpeggio on 2 Strings | Medium |
| In this exercise, I will show you how to play a Dominant 7th arpeggio and its inversions on 2 strings | |
| Minor 7th (b5) Arpeggio on Two Strings | Medium |
| In this exercise, we look at the last of the 7th arpeggios that come from the Major Scale - the Min7(b5) | |
| 7th Arpeggios on 2 Strings - Putting it All Together | Hard |
| In this exercise, we will use what we learned about 7th arpeggios from the previous exercises to come up with a musically interesting arpeggio progression. | |
Unlocking Triads Throughout the Fretboard, Across 5 Strings
In this guitar lesson, I am going to show you how to look at triad arpeggios in a way that will give you a deep understanding of their layout on the fretboard.
| Exercise | Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Major Triad Arpeggio Across 5 Strings Guest Visitor Access | Hard |
| In this exercise, we start looking at triads across 5 strings by first taking a look at a Major Triad. | |
| Minor Triad Arpeggios Across 5 Strings | Hard |
| We continue studying triad arpeggios in this exercise, by looking at a Minor Triad across 5 strings. | |
| Diminished Triad Arpeggios Across 5 Strings | Hard |
| In this exercise you will learn all about Diminished Triads and hopefully will find ways to use them in your own playing. | |
| Augmented Triad Arpeggios Across 5 Strings | Hard |
| In this exercise we take a look at the last of the basic triad types - the Augmented Triad - which has a very unique sound that should find its way into your playing soon! | |
| Triad Arpeggios Across 5 Strings - Harmonic Minor Etude | Insane |
| In this exercise I show you how to use various triad arpeggio shapes from this guitar lesson to write a cool sounding arpeggio progression. | |
Recent Guitar Exercises
Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments - Layer upon Layer...
In this final part of the Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments in Reaper lesson, we will finally get to the fun part - layering our guitar melody to create a more dramatic sound!
In Guitar Lesson: Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments - Fast, Efficient Techniques in Reaper
Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments - Applying Guitar Timing, Dynamics to MIDI Track
In this third part of the lesson, I will show you how to quickly apply the detected timing and volume of a recorded guitar part to a virtual instrument MIDI track.
In Guitar Lesson: Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments - Fast, Efficient Techniques in Reaper
Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments - Converting Note Attacks to MIDI
In this part of the lesson, I will show you how to use a Reaper script to detect guitar note attacks to be used for a layered, virtual instrument.
In Guitar Lesson: Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments - Fast, Efficient Techniques in Reaper
Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments - Setting up Reaper
In this first part of the lesson, we will get Reaper set up to make use of some very useful user-contributed Reaper scripts
In Guitar Lesson: Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments - Fast, Efficient Techniques in Reaper
Major Triad - Two Strings (plus an explanation of inversions)
We start our journey into the wild world of arpeggios with this Major Triad Arpeggio exercise, which will help build the needed foundation to move on to the more advanced guitar lessons.
In Guitar Lesson: Triad Arpeggios - 2 StringsInsane Guitar Exercises
Two String Triad Arpeggios Etude
In this exercise I will show you how we can combine the triad arpeggio shapes from this guitar lesson in a musical way.
In Guitar Lesson: Triad Arpeggios - 2 Strings
Triad Arpeggios Across 5 Strings - Harmonic Minor Etude
In this exercise I show you how to use various triad arpeggio shapes from this guitar lesson to write a cool sounding arpeggio progression.
In Guitar Lesson: Unlocking Triads Throughout the Fretboard, Across 5 Strings
Alternate Picking - Four Note Pattern 4
Here we have the final consecutive four note pattern in this alternate picking guitar lesson - this one is the toughest, so get ready to teach your fingers to behave like they haven't before!
In Guitar Lesson: Alternate Picking - Four Note Patterns
