Learn To Play Rock Guitar

Get Your Stretch On

Hey Friend, Okay, so we covered the names of the seven modes yesterday. Now that you’re all brushed up on your Greek, let’s get down to using these puppies. Each of these modes represents a location on the fingerboard. But keep in mind, each ...

Names of Modes

Hey Friend, Modes, modes, modes… A fancy word for a simple concept. It’s not something most guitar players are even aware of, let alone talk about. It’s usually when you’ve advanced into soloing techniques that you start hearing about the d ...

What Be Modes?

Hey Friend, How did your index/middle finger stretches go yesterday? Good? Good. You’re going to need that flexibility in the days to come! Keep stretching... When you are playing notes within a key (the scale notes), the notes line up according ...

Prep With a Stretch

Hey Friend, Didn’t we just start this month?! Here we are, one week into November, and it feels like I was standing still while it all passed by… Crazy how you can be busy all day long and get nothing done. Are you ready for some new patterns? ...

Expand Your Awareness

Hey Friend, Now that you have a set of patterns that can help you locate the key notes on the fingerboard, you can easily find any other note in a melody (or scale) simply by being aware of your position on the neck. You know there’s an E note at ...

A Good Petty Tribute

Here’s An Octave Pattern

Hey Friend, Here’s another fun little pattern to help you remember where note are on the strings. If you need to find the perfect octave of a note quickly, try this little trick: Two over, two up. What does this mean? Two strings over, two fr ...

Slowly, The Secrets Reveal Themselves...

Hey Friend, Yesterday, I gave you a very simple way to find the perfect fourth interval AND tune your guitar if you don’t happen to have a tuning device handy. You do this by starting with a reference note from another instrument, a tuning fork ...

Eureka, I Fixed It...

Hey Friend, I solved a technical mystery last night that clears one of hurdles I had to making videos and recording guitars. It was kind of a big one, as I couldn’t get a good signal from the guitar into the recording interface. Since I switched ...

The Muscles Remember

Hey Friend, I hope your Halloween fun was all you hoped it to be. While the kids scored big time in the candy department, we didn’t have a single trick or treater stop at the house! Hmmm, what to do with all those extra goodies…? I think I see ...