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Don't Just Learn Guitar. Learn To Be Yourself On Guitar.
Join me (and 20,000 others), and I'll show you how to use the mechanics of music to explore your guitar intuitively and skillfully. Plus, grab your free chord book
Be Yourself On Guitar
Grab your free chord book
Featured Guitar Lessons
Use these ten scale exercises, from easy to more advanced, to develop speed, timing, dexterity and creativity in your lead playing.
Learn the basics of reharmonization and chord substitution to give your chord playing more variation and interpret existing melodies in fresh ways (accompanying guide available on Patreon)...
Learn how to use added tone arpeggios to create accessible and versatile phrasing pathways through multiple chords, and even entire keys...
Discover the best guitar scale tools on the web, from scale generators and identifiers to matching chords with scales.
Break through the BPM barrier and get up to speed with this simple but effective process.
Learn ten functional ways you can replace the standard dominant to give your chord progressions more variation and colour.
Two part series exploring the concept of borrowed chords (second part here). What they are, where they come from, and how to treat them.
Learn how different pentatonic scales can give you new phrasing pathways over specific chord types.
Learn how to use slides to inject feeling into your lead and smoothly connect different areas of the neck...
Vibrantly expand your chord vocabulary using alternate open chords (get the accompanying e-book here)...
Learn how to turn scales into arpeggios for a more vertical approach to your lead playing...
Learn how to target melody more effectively in your chord playing...
Learn how the 1 4 5 triad method makes it easy to harmonise scales and create fluid chord melody in any key...
Learn the basics of how to combine chord and melody playing up the neck...
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