Part of my job as a guitar teacher is curating songs that my students might like to play. While some students know exactly what they want to learn and enthusiastically pursue every item on their ever-growing “to-learn” list, others just …
Intro to Chord-Tone Soloing
Ever wonder why certain notes in a guitar solo sound so good? Learn how to nail those satisfying notes every time in this video lesson, made for one of my Seattle students, Chris.
Jimmy Page’s Monster Pentatonic Lick
In this video lesson, I break down one of my all-time favorite rock licks. Jimmy Page played it in a live solo on “Black Dog,” which can be heard on the Led Zeppelin album, How the West Was Won. It …
The World’s Most-Used Guitar Scale: A Minor Pentatonic
The A minor pentatonic scale is probably the most-used, most-heard, most-seen, and most-demonstrated scale in the rock guitar world. Video instructors use it constantly as the launching point for demonstrating all kinds of pentatonic scale ideas. A minor is a …