For those of you who are looking for the free online lessons – the links to a number of them can be found at the bottom of the page.
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Private Lessons
If you’re serious about developing your individual sound as a player – I can help you. As a teacher, I have a lot more I can help individual students with than I can in the confines of the one-room schoolhouse approach taken here.
I currently offer online lessons via Skype. Please e-mail me at guitar.blueprint (at) gmail.com for rates and availability.
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The GuitArchitecture books
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One goal I have had in helping students self-study has been realized in the development of my GuitArchitecture books. The books are designed to offer some basic instruction (or a LOT of instruction in the case of the Chord Scale book) and then provide the reader with a VAST set of material (much of which they’ve never heard before). For the adventerous student, the pdfs of the books are a fraction of the cost of private lesson with me and provide years of study. You can find out all about the book series here.
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Online Guitar Lessons
Practicing Advice and Tips
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An important note:
You’re free to download and distribute any of the lessons here but I maintain the copyright on the material (so it doesn’t show up in someone else’s website uncredited (or worse – their book) which happens more often than you might think.)
These online lessons are sorted by subject in chronological order (newest to oldest). There may be multiple listings if things cross categories.
Modes:
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Hot Rodding Your Minor Arpeggios – Or A Little Theory Goes A Long Ways
GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 12 – Getting Into Modal Arpeggios – Superimposition
GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 11 – Getting Into Modal Arpeggios – 7th Chords
GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 10 – Getting Into Modal Arpeggios Part 1
The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 9 – Visualizing Melodic And Harmonic Minor
The Modal Microscope And A Sequenced Arpeggio Approach
Slash and Burn – Creating More Complex Sounds With Slash Chords
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The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes Part 8 – Major Positional Modal Interchange and Complimenting Modes with Chords
The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 7 – Minor Positional Modal Interchange And Complimenting Modes With Chords
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The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 6 – The Circle Of 5ths And Modal Interchange
The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 5 – Making The Most Of One Pattern
The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 4 – Modes and Chords
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The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 3B – Seeing The Six-String Major Scale
The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 3A – Seeing The Six-String Major Scale
The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 2 – Seeing The Two String Major Scale
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The GuitArchitecture Guide To Modes Part 1 – Seeing The Single String Major Scale
Making Music Out Of Scales
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Pentatonics:
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Sweep Away Those Blues Or Some Useful Ways To Sweep Pick A Blues Scale
Making Sense Of The Pentatonic Scale – Diagonal Forms – Part Two
Making Sense Of The Pentatonic Scale – Diagonal Forms – Part One
Free Sweeping Pentatonic Minor Scale Lesson on Live4Guitar.com now online
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The Baker’s Dozen Approach To Pentatonic Scales
GuitArchitecture, Sonic Visualization And A Pentatonic Approach For The Holidays
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Chords/ Triads/ Superimposition/ Arpeggios:
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Augment Your Knowledge: Sonic Shapes And Getting More From Augmented Chords
Creating Chords And Lines From Any Scale – A Harmonic Combinatorics / Spread Voicings Lesson
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Hot Rodding Your Minor Arpeggios – Or A Little Theory Goes A Long Ways
GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 12 – Getting Into Modal Arpeggios – Superimposition
GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 11 – Getting Into Modal Arpeggios – 7th Chords
GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 10 – Getting Into Modal Arpeggios
Slash and Burn – Creating More Complex Sounds With Slash Chords
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Getting Hipness From A Major Triad Or Chord Recycling Part 3
Getting Hipness From A Major Triad Or More Chord Recycling Part 2
Getting Hipness From A Major Triad Or Chord Recycling Part 1
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Getting Through The Gig – Negotiating A Chord Chart Part 3
Getting Through The Gig – Negotiating A Chord Chart Part 2
Getting Through The Gig – Negotiating A Chord Chart Part 1
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Recycling Chords Part II: Triad Transformation
Recycling Chords Part I Or Where’s The Root?
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Favored Curry Or Spicing Up Chord Scales And Triads Part 2
Favord Curry or Spicing Up Chord Scales And Triads Part 1
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Modal Arpeggios For Fun And Profit
Glass Noodles : Adapting A Philip Glass Arpeggio Approach
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Practicing:
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Melville, Madness And Practicing Or Finding The Deeper Lesson Part 2
Some Useful Online Practice Tools
Possession Is 9/10s Of The Law But Perception Is Everything Or Practicing Part VII
Testing Your Vocabulary Or Practicing Part VI
Practice What You Play Or Practicing Part V
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Definitions and Documents Or Practicing Part IV
Tension And The Soda Can Or Practicing Part III
Proper Posture…Proper Performance Practicing Part II
Practice Makes Better AKA Practicing Part I
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Misc:
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Jason Becker And A Lesson In Adaptation
Two Black and Bluegrass Licks To Get You Out Of A Session
Visualizing Video Game Licks Or An Intro To Symmetrical 12-Tone Patterns
Inspiration Vs Intimidation
What’s wrong with playing “Flight of the Bumblebee” for a world speed record?
Keeping Your Ego Out Of The Song’s Way
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Surviving The Gig
A Lesson In Improvisation And Jargon From A Cooking Show
Warming Up: Finger Exercises, The 3 T’S And The Necessity Of Mistakes
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A Quick Lick And A Rig Du Jour Update From Ho Chi Minh City
“The Limits Of My Language Are The Limits Of My World”
A Brief Though About Music Theory
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Guitar-Muse Player Profiles and Lessons
While the series I write for Guitar-Muse.com that typically features interviews with players and builders, I’ve also had a number of online lessons posted there.
Jason Becker Documentary Announcement (and lesson)
Jimmy Rosenberg Player Profile (and lesson)
Alex Masi Player Profile (and lesson)
Vinnie Vincent Player Profile (and lesson)
A Rhythmic Ear Training Lesson with Steve Vai’s Velorum
A Farewell To Exercises And A Warm-Up Lick
Playing With Spiders (or getting more from the 1-2-3-4)
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