Improvising Guitar Lessons

Hello fellow shredders! This lesson will focus on a fairly simple concept, in principal, but it serves as another tool to add to your toolbox of creativity. "Displacement" serves as a handy ...

So let's take a simple Am scale passage, and apply the displacement concept to it to gain a clearer understanding. First, we'll play through the note sequence. Then, we'll shift the passage...

Let's take a look at a lead phrase that has a bit more musical depth. You'll start to recognize how the "hills and valleys" of a phrase that has a typical starting and ending point takes on ...

Try out this backing track for the first couple exercises, but futhermore, try experimenting with some of your own licks while utilizing this rhythmic thought-process. The chords bounce betw...

So now, let's see how this concept works in a "tuplet" environment. We'll be moving things ahead by an eighth triplet, then two eighth triplets, then by a full quarter note (three eighth tri...

To clue up, let's take a look at a longer phrase. This exercise extends over four bars and follows a D harmonic minor descending pattern. The challenge here is trying to block out the i...

In this tutorial I'll show you how I've taking the concept of chords scales literally to visualizing both chord and scale at the same time to help play through changes. Let's begin! Chord Q...

The inversions are fair play. Learn them thoroughly. The quicker you get at identifying them the better. See the Maj7 Lydian Chart below! Cmaj7 - C E G B C7 - C E G Bb Cmin7 - C Eb G Bb ...

Here are the chords we'll be using with the backing track... Gmin7 - G - Bb - D - F (1 b3 5 b7) - Dorian G A Bb C D Eb F (G) Emin7 - E - G - B - D (1b3 5 b7) - Dorian E F# G A B C# D (E) ...

Here are the chords we'll be using with the backing track... Gmin7 - G - Bb - D - F (1 b3 5 b7) - Dorian G A Bb C D Eb F (G) Emin7 - E - G - B - D (1b3 5 b7) - Dorian E F# G A B C# D (E) ...

Here are the chords we'll be using with the backing track... Gmin7 - G - Bb - D - F (1 b3 5 b7) - Dorian G A Bb C D Eb F (G) Emin7 - E - G - B - D (1b3 5 b7) - Dorian E F# G A B C# D (E) ...

Enjoy the backing track!

METAL IMPROV Discipline. Don't judge yourself. Only play what you feel yet keep it simple. This isn't a show of how good you are but how much you can hold back. Go back and listen to my ex...

I am not an improviser. However, I want to improve on it! In this tutorial, I want to give you an inside look on some of my own methods into perfecting this territory of music. Let's begin....

In my other tutorials on motifs,  they present rhythmic ideas in which you can build any structure on, such as harmony or phrases. When you listen to my improvisation demonstration, you...

Half of the battle is knowing where to find the given notes on the fretboard. Most of us know box shapes and so on, and sometimes it's hard to escape them. However, they are needed and are o...

For once, I don't want you to transcribe this. Pay attention to the simplicity in the rhythm and or harmony. A lot of players just shred over the backing track, startling their peers. But t...

For once, I don't want you to transcribe this. Pay attention to the simplicity in the rhythm and or harmony. A lot of players just shred over the backing track, startling their peers. But t...

For once, I don't want you to transcribe this. Pay attention to the simplicity in the rhythm and or harmony. A lot of players just shred over the backing track, startling their peers. But t...

So this has been me at my bare minimum, taking the time to create rather than ramble off. I can do that and most of you have seen me do this, but I'm looking to tap into a more lyrical depth...

In this tutorial we're going to take some basic concepts of time feel and use them to improve both our technique and vocabulary when improvising. To properly integrate a line you must know ...

CYCLING: The method here is to take any lick you like and breaking it down in a way in which you can play it non stop to a metronome or drum loop. Keep in mind I don't use metronomes to bui...