By the end of this course you should be able to understand and play intermediate Blues Style techniques.

By the end of this course you should be able to understand and play a variety of more intermediate Rock Style techniques.

By the end of this course you should be able to understand and play more intermediate Country Style techniques.

This course level takes you through pentatonic and blues scales, a wide range of soloing techniques and creative approaches, a look at different regional blues styles and the three famous Kings, and much more.

Country level 2 takes a you through the CAGED system, new types of chords and inversions, picking and strumming techniques, and rhythm playing from the Masters.

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.

By using different scales and arpeggios it is possible to get out of solely using pentatonic box pattern for soloing. This tutorial uses some Jazz style theory and modal scales to hopefully harmonically enrich standard blues playing.

This tutorial is in the key of G and is a blues based turnaround. You will earn that a blues turnaround is made of dominant 7th chords and you will learn how to connect each chord with a walking bass line.

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...

Open strings provide new ways to approach licks.

This lesson includes 3 licks. Each lick is played at speed and then played at 1/2 speed with on-screen tablature. Lick 1 uses lots of hammer-ons to give the elusion of speed; when, in fact, the lick is relatively simple. It's a matter of training your fingers to go to the note you want them to go. Lick 2, on the other hand, is not as simple as it sounds. You can here similar riffs used in many bl...

This lesson contains two licks based on the Dorian scale. The licks are played at speed then at approximately half speed with on screen tablature.

Blues Rock lick over an A chord. Fun stuff and useful in a bunch of genres.

This lick is the main riff for the Ramblin song. It's been used in other songs as well but this set of lessons is all about the 1/2 time groove. Heavy syncopated backbeat guitar over a 2/4 bass line, and 4 to the floor half time drums make this main riff stand out. This example is intermediate. I will also post the way I usually play it live and on the Bendegos CD as an alternative to this les...

A really good friend was asking me the other day, how I put together solos. I can play scales, and sometimes go that route, but I tend to play out of chord positions more than anything else. This riff is easy to do after you get used to it, it starts in G chord and goes back to C chord. The G chord is actually in a D position in the 7th fret. These finger positions work in many places on the neck,...