Flatpick and Fingerstyle guitar lessons and material.
I’ve played solo acoustic guitar at North Georgia weddings for over twenty years. There’s something special and romantic about acoustic guitar that a DJ or even a full band can’t deliver. I’ve played at everything from the most exquisite hotels in downtown Atlanta to simple…
If you are learning fingerstyle guitar, you may wonder if you should go with your nails or bare fingers. Today, I’ll give you some advantages and disadvantages of each approach. A lot of this decision lies on the types of music you want to perform….
Have you practiced your scales and now your improvising sounds like scales? Here is a technique that can help. String skipping or melodic leaps are a great way to keep your solos from sounding like you are running scales. Here is an example of running…
Sometime people ask me what kind of strings, picks, or banjos I’m using. I thought I’d give a run down of some of my favorite equipment. I am an Amazon affiliate and anything purchased via these pictures/links, I earn a commission My Banjos My 78…
One of the most common techniques in bluegrass guitar is called crosspicking. What’s crosspicking? Today, I’ll show you how to get started with a few basic patterns. I’ll demonstrate via open strings only and then jump to a more advanced pattern where the notes move…
I recently got a new guitar, the Eastman E2OM-CD. This guitar is an orchestra model, making it smaller than a dreadnought size. It’s super comfy to play on the couch given it’s light weight and size. You can check out all of the specs on…
Want to spice up your rhythm guitar playing so you aren’t just strumming chords?Adding bass runs in between each chord shift is a great way to do that. The best news is it’s not hard at all. Today I’ll show you some bass runs that…
One of the keys to unlocking the guitar fingerboard are arpeggios. Today I’ll show you some basic arpeggio shapes laid out across the guitar strings. Arpeggio simply means playing the notes of a chord one at a time instead of all at once. The notes…
Learning the guitar and not sure how to go about learning the fingerboard? A lot of teachers start students with scales (if you are unlucky, they’ll give you a sheet with SEVEN modes with Greek names). That’s what my guitar instructor did when I was…
Today we are going to learn what I think is the easiest guitar scale. It only uses two fingers. What is a Pentatonic Scale? Penta means FIVE, so a pentatonic scale is a five note scale. Here are the notes within an E minor pentatonic…
With so many great guitarists out there, who are some of the top bluegrass guitarists you should listen to? I’m giving you a list of some of my favorites. There are lots of others, but these are some of my favorites and what I consider…
Are you interested in learning Chord Melody for solo guitar? So you can make your own arrangements for jazz and popular songs? One thing you must understand in order to make nice solo guitar arrangements are drop 2 voicings. Today I’ll show you what drop…
Spicing up the ii-V-I for jazz guitar In the jazz genre, the ii-V-I chord progression is THE most common chord progression. You’ll find it in nearly every song before the advent of modal jazz. Everything from Count Basie, Duke Ellington, to Charlie Parker. You’ll even…
Banjo vs Guitar Difficulty This question keeps coming up in my live streams; so, I thought I’d do a blog post giving my thoughts on the subject of banjo vs. guitar. Here is my answer to the question, Is the banjo harder than the guitar?…