Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Riff Ninja?

Blues Guitar Riff on 3rds

Blues Guitar Riff on 3rds

I know how much you guys love learning riffs, so here’s another lesson for you to scratch the itch I love this blues guitar riff, and although in the lesson I teach it in the Open E position, the fact is, I use these thirds time and time again, regardless of what key I’m in….

How To Use A Guitar Tuner

How To Use A Guitar Tuner

One of the most common questions that beginners ask me is “How to use a guitar tuner?” So I thought I would make a quick lesson here on how to use a digital guitar tuner to tune your guitar. Tuning your guitar is incredibly important. If the guitar isn’t in tune, you’re not going to…

Blues Guitar Strumming

Blues Guitar Strumming

Today’s guitar lesson is on the art of strumming, specifically, blues guitar strumming. As you’ll see, I initially started this strumming lesson using G C and D chords. Which of course works fine, and is highly relevant for teaching the strum pattern, however then I realized just how much this strumming pattern is used in…

How to Use a Guitar Capo

How to Use a Guitar Capo

You don’t see too many people using guitar capo’s – in fact I know some guitar players jokingly call them ‘lady fingers’ – but the fact is you can get some really cool and unique sounds out of your guitar, completely different from what you normally hear, simply by knowing how to use a guitar…

Chords that Work Together in ‘C’

Chords that Work Together in ‘C’

One of the questions I’ve been asked now and again is ‘What chords sound good together?‘ Well, there are a couple of ways for me to answer that question I suppose. I could show you specifically, and I could teach you the reasons why chords sound good together so you can figure that out on…