Using 3rds In The G Major Scale

Using 3rds In The G Major Scale

Here’s a more advanced guitar lessons for those of you who are ready for it! In this lesson Colin will give you some ideas on using 3rds from the G major scale. You’ll have to know your scales pretty well to follow this, as Colin moves around using the whole fretboard, though he’s also using…

Planet Waves Capo Tuner Review

Planet Waves Capo Tuner Review

The Planet Waves Capo Tuner is an ingenious gadget that has rolled (most of) the functionality of a tuner and a capo into one unit. I say (most of) because this tuner doesn’t have any way of indicating which note you are on, but only whether or not the note you are playing is on…

Acoustic Blues Guitar Boogie

Acoustic Blues Guitar Boogie

Here’s another lesson from Colin Daniel (aka the Riff Ninja) on an acoustic blues guitar boogie pattern. This is a great shuffle pattern that sounds awesome on acoustic or electric guitar. You can play this guitar boogie clean or distorted, but if you’re playing with distortion then you probably want to be careful and use…

Using Octaves in Guitar Solos

Using Octaves in Guitar Solos

Adding the octave, or perfect 8th interval onto some of your licks can really add a totally new flavor to your guitar solos. If you’d like to learn more about intervals and the scales, checkout my Guitar Scale Patterns course. In this lesson, Colin demonstrates how you can use the octaves all over the fretboard….

Guitar Fills in D Major

Guitar Fills in D Major

I love improvising – just noodling around in a given key and having a generally good time jamming away on the guitar. A big part of that is in creating fills or riffs in between chords… So today’s lesson is purely to give you a few ideas that you can use to get started creating…