Blues Lead Guitar Method

Minor pentatonic scale mastery, focusing on bends, slides, and vibrato.

Advanced blues guitar techniques cover progressive sounds, rhythms, and phrasing for intermediate to advanced players.

Reads and interprets fretboard diagrams for lead guitar patterns and iconic licks.

Tablature notation is introduced, using six lines to represent strings and numbers to show fret locations.

Covers tablature symbols for hammer-on, pull-off, slide, bend, release bend, slight bend, trail off, and vibrato techniques.

Develops essential right-hand skills for smooth and effortless playing.

Develops consistent finger placement and thumb positioning on the guitar neck to improve left-hand technique.

The minor pentatonic scale is covered, along with practical applications for developing picking techniques through various playing styles.

Covers strategies for seamless string changes using right-hand picking methods.

Hammer-ons and pull-offs are fundamental to authentic Blues guitar playing, with this content focusing on their application.

The hammer-on technique is introduced as a fundamental guitar skill.

Sliding fingers and producing new notes with a pull-off technique for guitar playing.

Introduces various types and techniques of slide guitar playing, covering its nuances and expressive possibilities.

Ascending slide technique covers moving up to a target note from below on the guitar.

Introduces descending slide technique from above target notes with finger placement and timing guidelines.

Introduces techniques for delaying slides between notes, enhancing musical expression.

Techniques for bending notes are covered to enhance emotional expression in Blues music.

Quarter tone bends and subtle nuances in blues playing are introduced and explained.

The release bend, a reverse technique, covers starting with a bent note and releasing to the natural pitch.

Vibrato technique is covered, exploring ways to add expression and nuance to musical performance.

Vibrato techniques for bent notes emphasize emotional expression and pitch sustain.

Fading sound techniques are used to create smooth, gradual endings in audio productions.

Develops a 12-bar blues solo combining techniques from prior instruction.

The E minor pentatonic scale is covered, including its E form and applications in chord shapes and a 12-bar blues solo.

Introduces the D Form, a pentatonic scale fingering featuring identical root notes to a basic D chord shape.

Introduces the C pentatonic scale's essential structure, demonstrating fingerings and bends on individual strings.

Covers the development of a C Form solo through practical application of previously introduced techniques.

The A pentatonic scale is introduced, focusing on its fundamental concepts and applications in creating classic Blues music.

The G Form pentatonic scale fingering is introduced, along with its applications across various positions.

Visualizing the fretboard through linking scale and chord forms, with root notes used as navigation points.

This material covers applying movable licks across the fretboard, adapting fingerings and techniques for playing solos in all five musical forms.

Creates personalized solo ideas through varied applications of familiar patterns.

Identifies notes within scales and analyzes signature phrases.

This content introduces principles of melodic composition, including the use of sliding scales and combined forms to create musical patterns.

Covers techniques for transitioning between guitar forms using a secondary sliding pattern.

Introduces fundamental guitar techniques including note naming, memorization of key concepts, and string traversals for playing in various keys.

Introduces note relationships on every string to play in any key and explains scale degrees for effective communication with other musicians.

Introduces fundamental concepts of harmonization and modulation through understanding and applying diatonic and chromatic relationships.

Develops skills to combine licks from previous lessons into a unified solo, emphasizing harmony and improvisation.

Rolling finger and note-bending techniques are covered.

Play scales on one string to develop scale degree understanding and fretboard familiarity through hands-on application.

Visualize and play solos by mastering memorization techniques and strategies for effective improvisation.

Mental mapping of the guitar fretboard enhances ear training and sparks musical creativity.

Staff lines and spaces, clefs, ledger lines, note heads, and bar lines are covered.

Note values cover common notes and their time lengths, explaining equivalent rests and dot effects.

Covers time signature concepts, including common and 3/4 time, and their role in indicating beats per bar.

Guitar open position notes, including octaves, are covered and visually explained.

Introduces the use of sharp (#) and flat (b) symbols in musical notation to raise or lower pitch by a semitone.

Chromatic scales, enharmonic notes, and guitar tuning principles are covered.

Covers the guitar fretboard layout, illustrating note patterns and relationships between open and 12th-fret positions.

Accurate guitar tuning techniques covered, including methods for achieving concert pitch and self-tuning.

Musical terminology covers fundamental and advanced concepts, including sharps, flats, tempo, and rhythm.