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Join me (and 17,000 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
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Darkness In Major Key Progressions - Chords & Scales
Learn how to inject darkness and sadness into major key progressions, giving them a heavier emotional quality. Guitar lesson with video, examples and charts.
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How To Change To Any Key Using The Dominant
Spice up your songwriting. Learn how the dominant function in music can help us change to any key, major or minor. In depth guitar lesson with video.
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Taking CAGED Guitar To The Next Level - Major Chord Colouring
Learn how to use the CAGED system to extend and colour major chords and create vibrant, easy to play voicings all over the guitar neck. Includes video demonstration and chord charts.
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The Lydian Mode on Guitar - Everything You Need To Know
Learn what creates the Lydian mode's distinctive sound, train your ears and learn how to apply it in your own music, both harmonically and melodically. The most comprehensive lesson on Lydian for guit…
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Effective Minor Pentatonic String Bending Technique
Learn how to use string bending in your minor pentatonic scale licks and build your confidence with lead improvisation. Lesson includes key bend points and tips on how to target your bends accurately…
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Borrowed Chords - How To Spot & Play Over Them
Learn about borrowed chords, how to use them in your songwriting and how to solo over them. Includes in depth video, ear training and tables showing how borrowed chords work in several keys.
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How Diminished 7th Chords Work In Music
Learn the ways diminished 7th or dim7 chords can work in your music with this in depth guitar lesson. Includes several progression examples and a video overview.
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Hidden Triads - Extending Your Harmony & Melody
Learn how to play triads in relative positions to the chords you're playing over to give your chord and lead playing more mileage. In depth guitar lesson with video and tabbed examples.
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The Versatility of Major 7th Arpeggios
Learn how major 7th arpeggios can be used over all chord types, not just maj7. This guitar lesson will take you through the basics of major 7th arpeggios and how to use them in your solos.
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Exploring The Guitar Neck In 6ths - What They Are & How To Play
Learn how to harmonise using 6ths right across the guitar neck and create beautiful sequences. This lesson will show you how to harmonise any chord in sixths.
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