Do you feel that your practice is not returning the results you want. That other musicians seem to make way more progress in way less time. In this lesson we’re going to talk about the practice habits of great musicians. What they are doing that makes their practice so effective. At the end I’ll show you an easy exercise that I give to students who struggle with practice that you can do to improve your sessions.

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.

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.

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.

This weeks lesson is on guitar phrasing, everything you need to know to stop sounding like a scale and be more musical when you improvise. It covers motifs, call and response, leaving space, acquiring vocabulary, and modifying your vocabulary to create original phrases on the fly like pro improvisers. If you feel that your solos just sound like scales, or would like to play more in a more musical and engaging manner, I think you will find many of the ideas in this post/video useful.

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.