This tutorial is for guitarists who have learned the fundamentals of rhythm guitar playing, chords, and inversions, and are ready to start applying the Ska style to their playing. Some of these concepts are for intermediate players, but even through mere imitation of the more complex musical examples, a less-experienced guitarist should learn some very valuable ideas about how to play Ska.

A two lesson tutorial on Ska rhythm

Here you can learn a typical latin rhythm guitar and so typical latin chord progressions in the style of A.C. Jobim. You can start from the easy lesson "Latin Guitar 1" where you learn some basic chords till "Latin Guitar 7" where you play your first latin jazz standard. When you are through this tutorial you should be able to create your own latin rhythm guitar parts.

This tutorial presents several specific traditional Celtic tunes, to be played fingerstyle. Both right and left hand techniques are taught.

This tutorial will give you all knowledge you need to learn how to play a great flamenco or flamenco style guitar without changing your technique completely. Here you will learn the chords, the runs and how to play them with you pick and how you can get this great sound out of your nylon guitar we all love. This tutorial takes you from I - VII as a introduction and will give you some more inspi...

In this tutorial we will learn scales with a Spanish or Gypsy flavor. Each scale will be shown as a fretboard pattern, in music notation & as a formula. Each scale has an audio example of how it sounds when played.

This tutorial will introduce you to a style of music popular in the 60's and 70's. You'll learn how to play chordal rhythms, melodies and simple solos in E and harmonize notes from the E major scale.

This tutorial is aimed at players who want to play lead in a spanish style without going into full-on flamenco techniques.I play this style a lot on steel string guitar which is obviously not "authentic" but it seems to work and is fun to play - The information here also applies to some "Gypsy Jazz" styles.

In this tutorial we will learn scales of Asian origin. For example, from Japan, Korea, and so on. Each scale will be shown as a fretboard pattern, in music notation & as a formula. Each scale has an audio example of how it sounds when played.

In this tutorial we will learn scales of Middle Eastern origin. Each scale will be shown as a fretboard pattern, in music notation & as a formula. Each scale has an audio example of how it sounds when played.

A simple Samba type tune for practicing scales to. Probably sounds best when played on a classical guitar. This tune is available as a loop in the Guitar Tricks Jam Station. It's in the World Music Section called "Samba".