Courses
If you’re new to the site, check out Where to Start.
These are the main courses:
- Beginning Guitarist
- Beginner Course – Level 1
- Play With Me! – Smoke on the Water Intro
- Introduction by Will
- Introduction by Mark
- Holding the Guitar
- Holding the Pick
- Choosing a Pick
- Open Strings
- Tuning the Guitar
- Acoustic vs Electric
- Parts of the Guitar
- What Specific Guitar Should I Buy?
- Sore Fingers and Hands?
- Your First Chord – E Major
- Proper Technique with Playing Chords
- Your Second Chord – Am
- Open Em Chord
- Practice Routine
- Changing Chords – Am to C
- Intro to Strumming
- Play With Me! E to Am
- Open Chords – G, C and D with Strumming Pattern #1
- Play With Me! – About a Girl Intro
- Focus on Your Trouble Spots
- Open Chords A, E and D with Strumming Pattern 2
- Play With Me! – Horse With No Name Intro
- Strumming Chords – Strumming Pattern #3
- Progress Check!
- How Chords Work
- C add9 Chord
- Play With Me! – Good Riddance Intro
- Play With Me! – Every Rose Has Its Thorn
- The Dreaded F Chord
- Easy Beginner Songs
- Cut Those Fingernails!
- Learning the Notes on the Fretboard
- A7 Chord
- Embellishing Chords with Hammer Ons, Sus Chords
- Open D sus2/sus4 chords
- A sus2/sus4 Chord
- E sus 4
- The Major Scale
- Beginner Course – Level 2
- Beginner Course – Level 1
- Fretboard Mastery 101
- How to Solo 101
- Improvisation in 5 Positions
- Improvisation using 2nds
- Improvisation using 3rds
- Improvisation using 1234 Sequence
- Chord Tone Soloing – Introduction
- Chord Tone Soloing – Approach Notes
- Chord Tone Soloing – Pachelbel’s Canon Example
- Chord Tone Soloing – Example 1
- Beyond Pentatonics
- No Scales Approach – Example 1 (Advanced)
- Connecting Arpeggios
- Bluesy Improv Example Over E7 Chord
- Fusion Guitar – Making Soloing Simpler
- Songs And Analysis
- For the Love of God by Steve Vai
- Walkie Talkie Intro Transcription by Greg Howe
- Pachelbel’s Canon Rock Lesson
- Transcription of Atanas Shishkov- Shred This Competition
- Greg Howe’s Bird’s Eye View
- All of Me – Bebop Solo Exercise and Analysis
- All The Things You Are – Transcription
- Louder (guitar solo)
- Drunk Dial of the Year Solo
- Metal Mayhem
- Guitar Technique 101
- Blues Lead Guitar 101
- Music Theory 101
Sign up Now (if you haven’t already) to Get Access to the Courses
Feel free to browse around and check out the video lessons. But ideally you need to work through the lessons one by one in order and to really master the fretboard you should take the Fretboard Mastery course step by step along with the How to Solo course to use the concepts. Learn the 5 simple shapes in the key of C first – spend as many weeks and months as you need to get them down before moving to other keys and concepts. The main reason I do these courses is so that you will not waste valuable time on scales and modes, but a simple visualization system that you can use for the rest of your guitar playing life!