Hello friends,
and welcome to routine #10 of my solo blues guitar series. In today's session I'll be showing you over a dozen classic blues guitar licks and tricks over a 12 bar blues in the key of Emaj. Learn advanced turnarounds, pentatonic phrases, and useful fingerstyle techniques. Let's get started!
2018-03-14 19:29:05 +0000 UTC
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And welcome to another By Request Song Tutorial. In today's session I'm revisiting The Beatles 1965 classic "In My Life." This tutorial breaks down how to play the tunes iconic intro, and the chord progressions and strumming patterns for the verse's A and B sections. This simple but recognizable song is p...
2018-03-08 23:05:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends,
Today I'm working on a number of projects including a revamped lesson on The Beatles "In My Life." As I complete my filming and editing, you can familiarize yourself with this classic tune and study my PDF study guide. I'll be back later this evening with a complete video tutorial breaking down the main riff, ch...
2018-03-08 16:50:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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And welcome to another by request song tutorial. In today's session I'll be breaking down a fairly easy guitar song in Nirvana's 1993 unplugged version of "About a Girl." I'll take you through the simple chord changes and strumming patterns for the verse and chorus sections, before teaching you how to play Kurt'...
2018-03-07 23:55:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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And welcome to another by request song tutorial! In today's session I'll be brekaing down my approach to playing "Remember Me" by Kristen Anderson Lopez & Robert Lopez, from the sound track of Disney's animated film "Coco." I'll take you through the fingerstyle techniques, breaking the tune down into ...
2018-03-06 01:55:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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and welcome to another By Request Song Tutorial! In today's session I'll be breaking down how to play Sam Cooke's 1962 classic "Bring It on Home to Me." I'll take you through a guitar version of the intro section, before revealing the chord progressions and strumming technique for the verses. Let's get started!<...
2018-02-28 23:37:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends,
and thank you so much for your continued support! In recent weeks I've talked a lot about songwriting, and how using music as a creative outlet has driven my progress more than anything else. In today's session I'm going to break-down my top 5 tips for beginner lyricist. We'll discuss common themes, findi...
2018-02-27 19:27:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome to another songwriting tutorial! In today's session we will discuss the process of analyzing your favorite tunes. Our goal will be to establish what key the song is in, the type of progression, and to identify any unique variations. Once we have reduced this song into it's basic components, we will use t...
2018-02-24 15:36:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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And welcome to another song tutorial! In today's session I'm bringing you a revamped video lesson, chord sheet and tab for The Beatles 1965 classic "I've Just Seen a Face." This tune employs a simple 1.6.4.5 chord progression in Gmaj, and embellishes this "stock" chord progression using walking transition riffs. ...
2018-02-20 19:03:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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and welcome to another Weekly Challenge! In today's session we'll follow up on our study of major keys and begin learning the process of writing our own original songs! Composition is something that guitarist of all levels can enjoy, and is fantastic way to retain information as you apply the techniques and theo...
2018-02-20 01:49:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends,
And thank you for checking out another original tune of mine. This week I've been working to build up my personal repertoire of performance ready tunes, which I believe is one of the most important goals for every aspiring guitarist. This song entitled "Sail the Moon" is one that I wrote over 10 years ago as a g...
2018-02-17 17:09:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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And welcome to another lick of the week! In today’s session I’ll be demonstrating a simple way to make basic chords sound amazing! In the context of a 1.5.4.2 progression in G, we’ll employ chord variations, hammer-ons, pull-offs and hybrid picking to our D major chord. Let’s get started!
L...
2018-02-13 22:29:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello friends,
Over the last year our numbers have grown immensely, as we are now over 2800 strong! Since I have so many new students, I'd like to know how long each of you have been practicing the guitar? This will help me to shape my content for the coming weeks. Thanks so much!
Choose the option that best fits you: 2018-02-13 20:04:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends,
and welcome to another Weekly Challenge! In today’s session we will expand our ability to solo over major keys by learning three useful positions of our major scale, shown here in the key of C. Maximize your practice time by reciting the note names and scale intervals as you drill each position. Let’s get st...
2018-02-12 21:35:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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As many of you know, I've been busy creating a new premium music theory course called "Mastering Major Keys." Since I didn't have time to create a song tutorial this week, I decided to put together a new tab and chord ...
2018-02-10 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week I'm taking a break from our weekly challenges to bring you a special fingerstyle guitar lesson celebrating the Philadelphia Eagles first ever Super Bowl victory! In this session I'll be showing you how to play my fingerstyle rendition of "Fly, Eagles Fly" by Charles Borrelli and Roger Courtland. Let's ...
2018-02-06 15:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends,
and welcome to session #1 of a seven part series breaking down the notes and chords in your natural major keys. In this lesson I'll be showing you how the A major scale can be converted to "chordal form" as we learn common positions of the Amaj, Bm, C#m, Dmaj, Emaj, F#m, and G# diminished chords. Let's get start...
2018-02-02 21:44:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends,
and welcome to Routine #9 of my Blues Self-Accompaniment Series! In our previous sessions we worked toward being able to blend chord shapes, licks, and bass lines to create a solo blues performance for acoustic guitar. In this session, we'll build on what we've learned thus far, while adding more advanced licks,...
2018-02-01 05:00:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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Today a quick lesson on how to find one of blues music's most popular soloing positions, BB's box! We'll begin this session with a brief demonstration over a 12 bar blues in Emaj, then I'll show you two simple methods of accessing this power cluster of notes! Once you have the system down, we'll apply it t...
2018-01-26 22:20:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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Tomorrow I plan to release this new lesson on The Beatles 1966 classic "Here, There and Everywhere." In this session I'll break down the chord progressions for the intro, verse and chorus sections, and also some very useful fingerstyle techniques. This tune is simple in it's construction, but does feature severa...
2018-01-25 01:40:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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welcome to another rhythm guitar tutorial. In today's session we will be expanding your knowledge of blues rhythm options as we learn to employ "approach chords" to a standard 12 bar progression in the key of A.This technique involves modulating a half step above or below the desired chord, creating subtle disso...
2018-01-22 20:48:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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Earlier this week my patrons at the Contributor and Premium levels received my Weekly Challenge to begin learning the names of the notes on the fretboard. Folks, this is the #1 thing you can do to quickly improve your guitar playing! Learning the names of the notes on the fretboard will...
2018-01-19 21:17:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends,
and welcome to another lead guitar tutorial. In today's session I'm going to be showing you some of my favorite tricks for soloing over a 1.4.5 progression in Cmaj, as heard in the famous Hank Williams tune "Your Cheatin' Heart." I'll break down each lick, and reveal some of the theory that was involved in creat...
2018-01-13 00:14:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends,
and welcome to another by request song tutorial! In today's session I'll be breaking down how to play the rhythm guitar parts to Hank Williams' 1952 classic "Your Cheatin' Heart." We'll begin learning my personal way of performing the intro section, before applying an essential country strumming pattern to the v...
2018-01-11 23:51:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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and welcome to another Swiftlessons ukulele tutorial. In today's session I'll be showing you how to play my rendition of the Edith Piaf classic "La Vie En Rose." We'll get started learning how to play my instrumental intro, before combining rhythm and lead elements over the verse and chorus sections. Let's get s...
2018-01-09 00:34:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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I hope you have enjoyed this weeks lessons, and that you're getting plenty of practice in the new year. Today I worked out a ukulele cover of the Edith Piaf classic "La Vie En Rose" which I plan to teach a lesson on in the new year. One of my new years resolutions is to get back to teaching the uke, so if you ha...
2018-01-05 22:00:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends,
and welcome to part two of my Sublime "Santeria" lessons series. In this session we'll be employing a simple reggae style strumming pattern as I break down the rhythm guitar parts for the intro, verse and chorus sections. For those of you who have made progress playing barre chord shapes, this is an excellent tu...
2018-01-04 03:47:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends,
Welcome to another music theory tutorial. In today’s session we will be discussing the difference between two chords with very similar names, the Cadd9 and the C9 chord. We’ll begin by reviewing how our basic major chord is created using the major scale, before discovering what additional harmonies must be a...
2018-01-02 18:32:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends,
and welcome to another Swiftlessons Guitar Talk Session! In this video, I'll discuss some of my suggestions for New Years resolutions. Let's kick 2018 off right by setting our goals, planning our practice schedules and facilitating some serious progress. Let's get started!
1. Set a pract...
2018-01-01 21:45:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends,
and welcome to section #1 of my two part lesson breaking down Sublime's 1996 classic "Santeria." In this section we'll be learning how to play Brad's iconic guitar solo. We'll begin by learning a few useful scales before breaking down Brad's melodic licks. Let's get started!
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2017-12-26 23:04:29 +0000 UTC View Post
