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Keep It Clean
Being in tune, playing in time, and having good technique is really important.
Know Your Neck
Boldly go where you as a guitar player have never gone before.
Four Tips To Make Learning Barre Chords Easier
Barre chords - they can be tricky to learn!
Let It Ring
Letting notes ring can do wonders for your compositions.
25 Best Guitar Exercises That Will Make You a Better Guitar Player
Exercises that will challenge you to build a deeper connection with your guitar.
How To Transform Fingerpicking Patterns Into Incredible Sounding Music
A little technique can go a long way if you know how to apply it creatively.
Phrygian Dominant Shred Patterns
Moving the Phrygian Dominant scale in a more horizontal fashion across the neck.
15 Easy Guitar Solos To Learn
Get the most you can out of the rehearsal time you have scheduled.
The IIm7b5-V7b9-Im Progression
Here is a minor cadence used in hundreds of Real Book tunes.
Picking Exercises To Melodic Phrases
Examples that will help strengthen your picking, constructed in a more musical fashion.
Connecting Scale Patterns
A great way to connect the five basic major scale patterns.
Know Your Roots
Great when learning modes - hear the sound of each mode over a tonal center.
Picking Exercises: Chromatic Sequential
Strengthen your upstrokes so they are as strong as your downstrokes.
Connecting Scales
If you know all of your scale patterns, but are not sure how to connect them, this lesson will help you.
The Double Chromatic Approach
Resolving to the 3rd of the chords in a chromatic fashion.
Quarantine Lines
Stuck inside? Take advantage of the time and challenge yourself to get to the next level.
Guide Tones
When used correctly, guide tones outline the flavor of the chords you’re improvising over.
Ascending Shred Lines
Creative ways to move around the fretboard at a blazing fast speed.
Harmonic Minor And Melodic Major Scales
A complete primer on these amazing scales.
Harmonic Major
This scale is most common in jazz, but can be applied to any style of music.
Tonality, Part 1
How does anybody know what key they’re in? Let's find out.
Outside Lines
Taking the diminished scale and incorporating it with a basic blues scale box.
Diatonic Harmony, Part 2
More about the chords, triads, and arpeggios that are built from the major scale.
Triad Arpeggio Sequences, Part 2
Even more ideas to spice up your arpeggio sequences by altering the order of the notes.
Triad Arpeggio Sequences
Time to build technique and spice up your arpeggio sequences by altering the order of the notes.
Diatonic Harmony
Gaining knowledge of all the chords, triads, and arpeggios that are built from the major scale.
Scales: Combining Rhythmic Variations
Now, Mike mixes up the rhythms when practicing scales to make things that much more interesting.
The Inherent Value Of Music Education
Showing the benefits of music education, and how it positively impacts the lives of students.
Practicing Scales With Rhythmic Variation
Building your chops while making practice time more interesting and even, fun.
Plugging In The Blue Note
Altering the sound of the pentatonic scale by plugging in an additional note.
The Altered Scale
Mike digs a little deeper into the Altered scale, aka Super Locrian.
3 Ways To Sound Amazing On Your Guitar Using Chords In An Open G Tuning
Simon takes a close look at the use of chords in this popular tuning.
Permutations of Chord Tones
An endless variety of melodic phrases can be derived from the permutation of chord tones.
"All Alone" Solo Excerpts
Mike teaches soloing over chord changes with a track from his album, "The Fire Within".
"The Fire Within"
Mike has a new album, "The Fire Within". and breaks down a few of the notable tracks.
How To Easily Play Acoustic Percussive Guitar
Learn the sophisticated, awe inspired, and flat out mind-blowing style of percussive acoustic guitar.