Guitar Lessons

This lesson teaches you how to play and memorize Major and minor guitar scales over the entire guitar neck. The bulk of today's lesson is delivered through a cool animation that shows you what fingers to use as well as the best pick motions to play the scales.

Learn all about the modes of the Major scale in this lesson that includes a nice guitar fretboard animation you can download and save for later.

An interesting lesson featuring an animated GIF to help you understand chord inversions using the triads of a Major scale.

Get ready to expand your chord construction knowledge in this 3rd and final article in my series of guitar chord building lessons. Here you will learn all about the types of chords that are a staple in Blues and Jazz guitar.

The Pentatonic scales are the staple of modern rock, blues and metal. This lesson will teach you how to play and memorize them all over the guitar neck using animated graphics and a cool guitar hack.

The Harmonic minor scale can add some exotic flavor to your guitar licks and solos. It's frequently used by guitar greats such as Yngwie Malmsteen, Vinnie Moore and Jeff Loomis. In this lesson I will show you how you can easily learn to play it so you can add it to your guitar scale arsenal.

Learn how to play the blues scale for guitar with animated GIF and TAB that shows fingering and picking.

In this week's lesson on guitar scales, you will learn how to play the Melodic minor scale using animations and guitar TAB.

A huge list of easy guitar songs that use just 4 chords.

A short lesson on basic song structure for those of you who want to start writing your own songs.