These lessons will teach you to make the most of your regular chords. We'll learn 9 Major chord inversions and 9 Minor chord inversions and put them into real time. This will put real spice in your rhythm and lead guitar.

The span of John Mayer's career from his aggressive-acoustic beginnings to his modern finger style approach showcases a player whose diversity has earned him the respect of guitar greats and the general public alike.  Focusing on his acoustic guitar style, this tutorial provides 10 examples, all of which showcase a different element of John's unique approach to the instrument.  By the end of the...

"New Age" playing is used to describe acoustic guitar playing in its solo form that demonstrates a mixture of technical prowess and song-writing. Soloists such as Andy McKee, Antoine Dufour, and others demonstrate exceptional playing on the instrument, all the while writing meaningful songs and great melodies. Artists such as Kaki King and the late Michael Hedges have taken such ideas a step furt...

By the end of this tutorial you should be able to play 12 Bar Blues in Country Style using Open chords.

By the end of this tutorial you should be able to play more examples of 12 Bar Blues in Country Style using Barre Chords rooted on the A string.

Here we are starting to put things together and shall give some inspiration and ideas to create some jazzy lines which sound great. Last but not least this is what it is all about in jazz and gypsy jazz guitar. Below you find a track where you can practice this lesson here.

The whammy bar is typically used for creating a vibrato effect. It can also be used to create dives on notes or chords that are not possible without it. This lesson illustrates use of the whammy bar to create whole step dives for a rockabilly intro.

Hot Rod Rockabilly is a more rock and roll version of the basic rockabilly style. Add some distortion with a rock beat to hot rod your Rockabilly.

Playing the same rockabilly bass rythm patterns over and over can become very boring. In this lesson I illustrate how to mix up the patterns to add some spice. This also helps to lead into vocals or instrumentals.

This is a nice lick for an ending, or you can start with it. I did it fast here, but it doesn't have to be played that fast to sound good. It starts with a sliding double stop, and then on the next double stop I make a bar with my first finger and cover the first, second, and third strings. After the hammer on I make the bar with my ring finger. The hammer ons are done with a bar using my index fi...