This lesson focuses on learning how to tune your guitar. The method shown here is very basic and should be reasonably easy for any guitarist to accomplish. It basically relies on your ability to match one pitch against another. We start by making sure that the 6th string on the guitar is in tune by [...]

In this lesson we will focus on learning the theory behind economy picking as well as practice a few exercises to develop it. Economy picking is basically the combination of alternate and sweep picking. It produces a smoother sound than straight alternate picking and requires far less effort in the picking hand. If you have [...]

This lesson focuses on exercises to develop legato technique using two notes per string and 3 notes per string. Pay close attention the hand positioning because it can make or break your ability to play these exercises accurately and smoothly. These exercises can be used as great technique builders as well as warm-up exercises after [...]

The lesson this Christmas morning is Part 2 of our series on learning to name the notes across the fingerboard. Now that we can name the notes on the 6th string we will use that knowledge to figure out the notes on all the other strings. If you are consistent in your note naming practice [...]

This lesson is gonna take a little focus away from playing and instead try to help you know your way around the guitar a little bit better. The guitar is notoriously a difficult instrument to visualize and because of that many guitarist’s of even advanced ability can’t confidently name the notes across the fretboard. As [...]