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In this week's lesson I'll show you how much of an impact changing one simple note in the natural minor scale can have on a piece of music. Join me for this lesson if you want to expand your horizons past the minor and major pentatonic scales.

I'm a big proponent of encouraging rhythm guitar playing to really get their arpeggiated chord playing in order, because in my mind, rhythm guitar playing is equal parts strumming, and equal parts playing the notes in the chord one at a time (what we refer to as an arpeggio). Join me for a 3 chord exercise to really get your arpeggio skills in action!

Do you find yourself getting stuck just playing straight blues chords, or even the standard shuffle blues riff all the time? Check out this take on the 'thumb-over' style as we dive into some blues rhythm (I'll also give a workaround for those of you who would prefer not to use your thumb over the top of the neck). Take a listen to this piece and dive in with me!

Do major or minor power chords exist? Well, officially they don't -- but the term 'power chord' is quite new as well. A chord is traditionally defined as playing 3 notes or more at one time, and what is famously known as a 'power chord' is the root and 5th played together at the same time -- just two notes. I'm going to take this one step further and bring you down the rabbit hole with me and show you how we can play and use major and minor 'power chords' by just using the root and 3rd.

This week's lesson is going to give you the tools to enhance your rhythm playing as we dive into a jazzy progression that uses barre chords with a more modern rhythm and approach. If you've been looking to build on your simple major and minor barre chords, this lesson is for you!

Have you ever wanted to be able to play phrases in between your chords? Well then this lesson is for you! We're going to start on the simpler side of things and just focus on major chords here; the notes I'm going to use can be moved up or down the fretboard (and changed), depending on which chord you're playing, or you can just copy what I do here and get used to the concept.

This week's lesson will help you boost your picking skills with a 3 string picking pattern that can be used for so many things. Join me as we work on this original piece together!

This week's lesson is all about triads for rhythm guitar! If you feel like you need other options rather than open and barre chords to use when playing rhythm parts, then this lesson is for you.

This week's lesson is all about spicing up your open chord playing and thinking about things in a different way! If you find that the only thing you tend to do with open chords is try out different strumming patterns, this piece will help you build your rhythm guitar skills and add interest to your open chord playing.