Category: Advanced Guitar

Simple triads offer some of the most grand riff possibilities (as the great Eric Johnson has shown us). This week’s video tip dives into how we can use these great little riffs in our own playing.

Put your jazz hat on and let’s learn one of the signature guitar progressions in Jazz – the ii-V-I progression! In this video tip, Steve teaches the basic progression and several helpful variations from basic through advanced. Just follow along, get the new chord forms down and you’ll be able to immediately incorporate these ideas [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if you could use the same chords you already know to get fresh new sounds? Taking familiar chords that use open strings and moving them around on the guitar neck creates great sounding new chords. And the best part is you don’t need to learn a new chord shape! Download a [...]

Man, you ought to be in a band! Some guitar playing concepts like soloing and improvisation can’t be learned from a book or DVD. You only learn them from playing with a band – whether live or recorded. Since you probably don’t have your own back up band jam tracks can fill an important role [...]

I’ve heard it a thousand times.  “I want to improvise but I just don’t know what to play. ”  You may see guys play great solos. Occasionally you might even catch what they are doing.  But when it comes time for you to improvise a solo, nothing’s there. When it’s time to solo your mind [...]