Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a pioneer in blues and rock guitar. You’ll hear her influence in plenty of rock n’ rollers like Chuck Berry, Elvis, Little Richard, and...

High Hopes by Panic! At the Disco

In this video, I filmed my process of listening to and learning a song. Thus, it’s a little bit longer than a standard tutorial. But I wanted you to see how I listen,...

Thumbpicks and Fingerstyle Playing From Tommy Emmanuel

As you might have assessed from other posts, I’m a big fan of Tommy Emmanuel’s style and technique. Here he brilliantly explains his fingerstyle technique, and...

Los Pollitos Dicen Pio Pio Pio

A Los pollitos dicen D A Pío pío pío D A Cuando tienen hambre E A cuando tienen frio A La gallina busca D A El maíz y el trigo D A Les da la comida E A Y les presta...

Blues Scales

Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales

Improvisation Intro

Some recommendations for improv – it doesn’t just mean scales! See also: Palm Muting

Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales

Ok, so I had a brain hiccup while recording this. When I was talking about the scale degrees, I totally blew it. Don’t know what I was thinking. In the minor pentatonic...

The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Chord Melody)

Steps for Chord Melody: Identify scale. I play this one in D, so see if you can find the D major scale in open position. Find the melody on its own. Play the melody and the...

Basic Finger Picking Technique

This was added to the “Essentials” module a couple months ago, but I thought it might be helpful to place here as well. This will help you get going on...

by Matt Logan

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