What is a Learning Path, and how will it help me?
Don’t know where to start? Our Learning Paths take the most common guitar goals, themes and playing styles and provide a handpicked path of lessons, from our library, to put you on track.
What is a Learning Path?
Don’t know where to start? Our Learning Paths take the most common guitar goals themes and playing styles and provide a handpicked path of lessons, from our library, to put you on the right track.
With a mix of technique and song lessons, you will find each Learning Path serves as a medium term practice routine too! Providing you with the skills you need, when you need them and some songs with which you can instantly apply your new techniques and concepts.
1
Mixing Major & Minor Blues Sounds
The most overlooked trick to truly capturing that blues sound when soloing, can be found in the blending of major and minor sounds. All the greats did it – from BB King to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Clapton to Hendrix. Get to grips with this and level up your blues guitar playing!
4 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 34:42 MINS
Lessons in Part 1 include:
Easy Ways To Play The Major Pentatonic Scale
Practice Solo
Blending Scales
Blending Major & Minor Sounds
2
Solo Studies
OK, now its time to get some licks and a solo under your fingers! Master some essential phrases by the original blues hero, Eric Clapton, before learning how to play Everyday I Have The Blues by the legendary BB King.
2 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 24:45 MINS
Lessons in Part 2 include:
Eric Clapton Style Licks
BB King Everyday I Have The Blues
3
Level 2 Blues Phrasing & Basic Soloing Over Chord Changes
Let’s boost your scale knowledge and prepare you to jam like a pro! Creating truly unique blues guitar solos which ‘say something’ all comes down to, not only your phrasing, but how you recognise the chords over which you are improvising. It all starts with these lessons!
3 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 35:12 MINS
Lessons in Part 3 include:
New Scales And Phrasing Ideas – The BB King Position
Licks Runs Blues Study Jam
Soloing Over A Blues Chord Progression
4
Next Level Blues Techniques
Take your phrasing and musicality up a level with a new set of expressive techniques and concepts used by every accomplished blues guitarist. This is the next step towards creating confident blues guitar solos!
3 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 45:09 MINS
Lessons in Part 4 include:
Introducing Double Stops
Blues Double Stops
Microtonal Bends with Guthrie Govan
4
Final Solo
Here is a show stopping guitar solo to help you put your new blues guitar skills into practice. Possible the most famous rendition of this blues classic – Red House by Jimi Hendrix. Learn this solo and you will have another head turning set of blues licks and tricks, plus a party piece to make you sound like a blues master!
1 LESSON, RUN TIME – 17:02 MINS
Lessons in Part 4 include:
Jimi Hendrix – Red House – Lesson
Jimi Hendrix – Red House – Performance & Play-Along
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Riffs Which Use The Pentatonic Scale
Don’t just learn your pentatonic scales, put them to in to practice and begin to recognise them on the fretboard through actual songs! This collection of guitar riff lessons shows you how the greats used this most important and versatile guitar scale to write some of the best riffs of all time. If you are tired of playing your scales as exercises then this Learning Path is for you! All these famous riffs use the pentatonic scale (mainly E minor) and will help you memorise these shapes in new ways. Have fun!
Start This Learning PathSongs Using The CAGED System
If you’ve learnt your neck or chord shapes using the CAGED system, then why not put things into practice with some fun songs? All these famous songs make use of chords and triad shapes taken from the CAGED framework; helping you memorise shapes based on their roots plus getting some famous songs under your fingers while you learn!
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