FINGERSTYLE GUITAR LESSONS

Hey guys, welcome back to another guitar lesson. Today I am going to show you how to play a romantic chord progression on the acoustic guitar.

Romantic and passionate chords can be achieved by transforming the chords into major and minor seventh chords. Add a simple fingerpicking pattern, and a lovely guitar tone and the recipe is ready.

The chord progression we checking out today is in E major key. Just two chords and a simple rhythm. The second section features a quite exciting chord progression in C# minor played with a chromatic bass line that adds a lot of color to the music.

I love playing with major and minor seventh chords. It feels like you can always come up with something different every time you use these chords.

I hope you get inspired.

Enjoy this lesson.

Hey guys, welcome to another guitar lesson. Today, I am going to show you how to play a Blues in C using two scales: The major and minor pentatonic scale.

One of the remarkable things about the Blues is that it allows you to use two scales over the chords. I always loved watching blues players blending the two scales effortlessly. However, when I tried, it didn’t sound quite the same!

You see, guitar players tend to let the fingers decide what to play. In my case, I would learn one blues lick using the C major pentatonic, and I would try to replicate the same riff with the Minor pentatonic using the same shape. We can call it a “Copy and paste” Blues lick approach.

Things changed when I started listening to singers and how they blend the two scales. The transition between the major and minor scale was soo smooth that it almost felt like one scale.

Once you get rid of the scale box, you can appreciate playing the Blues as a singer does.

In this lesson, I am going to show you what I learn by playing a Blues like a singer. I am also going to show you how to blend the two scales so that you always know what scale goes on which chord.

Enjoy this lesson.

Hey guys, let me show you how to play this beautiful pop chord progression on the acoustic guitar using the fingerpicking technique.

We are going to learn a lovely chord progression in C# minor. The cool thing about this lesson is that it starts with just one melody on the B string. After you learn this, you can then add the bass note and full chords to the melody.

The chord shapes are very simple as we are mostly playing just two strings. However, some of these chords can be quite jumpy so make sure you learn one chord at a time if you need to.

The chord progression goes as follows: C#m | E | A | % | C#m | E | A ||. Simple yet beautiful.

Enjoy this lesson.