This week I’m demystifying the CAGED system. It’s not complicated but it often trips students because you can do a lot with it. I’ll show you what the CAGED system is, how it works, and how to apply it to any chord, scale, or arpeggio that you can think of. If you feel like you can’t use the whole fretboard, are stuck in scale boxes, or your chord vocabulary is limited, this is the lesson for you.

Unlock the fretboard with Fretboard Mapping. You’ll learn effective strategies for visualising the fretboard. Everything from CAGED, to three note per string, triads and more. If you want to navigate the fretboard fluidly and understand how the things you’re playing fit into the big picture this course will provide you with everything you need to understand the fretboard inside and out.

Do you find it hard to play guitar fast? In this lesson pack I’ll be covering how to play guitar fast – the magic of chunking. Chunking is a method that will not only boost the speed you can play at, but also the rate at which can learn fast ideas. By the end of today’s lesson you will know what chunking is, how to apply the concept of chunking to a technical musical ideas, and you will have a fast lick that you can learn yourself to implement these ideas with.

Learn to improvise like a blues legend with Jamming The Blues. I’ll show you how to go from knowing nothing about blues improvisation to being a fluent and capable soloist using simple tools and concepts. You’ll learn how the 12 bar blues form works and how to improvise over it with the minor pentatonic scale.  From there are show the secrets of proper blues phrasing, how to use the major pentatonic scale, and how to target the chord changes so that you can sound like your blues heroes.

In this weeks lesson we’re going to talk about how to mix major and minor pentatonic scales. This iconic blending of scales will help you spice up your solos by playing with the ideas of tension and release. Made famous by players like Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, learning to mix major and minor pentatonic scales will become an essential part of your improvisational tool kit. We’ll cover why mixing major and minor pentatonic scales sounds so great, when and how to use it generally, and finally how to use this tool in a blues.

Do you want your solos to rock? In this weeks lesson I’ll share with you the top 5 rock licks that the pros use to write killer solos. I’ll show you how to play each the five licks, how to modify them to make them your own, and stick around to the end for an exercise that will teach you how to chain these ideas together to make your own solo.