Free Guitar Lessons, Tips, and Arrangements
You can find links to all my YouTube videos here. They are organized by category: technique and tips, chords and strumming patterns, music reading and theory, scales, solo guitar arrangements, and performances/recordings. Click here a free video music theory course specifically for guitar players.
MOST RECENT
TECHNIQUE AND TIPS
How to Tune Your Guitar
Learn Guitar String Names the Easy Way
Start off Right on Guitar (12 Tips)
Alternate Picking for Speed
Find the Right Guitar Teacher for You
Getting Ready for Your First Gig
How to Overcome Stage Fright
How to Play Hammer-Ons
How to Play Octave Doublestops
How to Play Pull-Offs
How to Play Swing Rhythms
How to Sing and Play Guitar at the Same Time
Octave Patterns on the Fretboard
Organizing Your Guitar Practice
CHORDS, STRUMMING, AND FINGERSTYLE PATTERNS
6 Easy Travis Picking Patterns
14 Strumming Patterns in 4/4 Time
14 patterns from the reference section of Rhythm Guitar Book 2.
11 Strumming Patterns in 3/4 Time
11 patterns from the reference section of Rhythm Guitar Book 2.
17 Fingerstyle Patterns in 4/4 Time
17 patterns from the reference section of Rhythm Guitar Book 2.
12 Fingerstyle Patterns in 3/4 Time
12 patterns from the reference section of Rhythm Guitar Book 2.
Add Moving Bass to Swing Chords
Basic Jazz Chords with 5th String Roots
Basic Jazz Chords with 6th String Roots
Finding Roots and 5ths in Moveable Chords
Two Simple Exercises for Forming Chords with All Fingers at Once
Five Ways to Play an A Major Chord
Harmonize Major Scales with 4th String Roots (D Shapes)
Harmonize Major Scales with 5th String Roots (A Shapes)
Harmonize Major Scales with 5th String Roots (C Shapes)
Harmonize Major Scales with 6th String Roots (E Shapes)
How to Learn Jazz Guitar Chords
How to Read a Guitar Chord Diagram
House of the Rising Sun: Chords and Patterns
Learn These Chords First (G, C, D, and E Minor)
Beginning Guitar Strumming Patterns (4/4)
Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar Patterns (4/4)
Beginning Guitar Strumming Patterns (3/4)
Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar Patterns (3/4)
Guitar Strumming Variations
Beyond Boom Chick
Better Guitar Strumming Patterns with Alternate Bass Notes
Faster Chords Part 1 (Common Fingers and Guide Fingers)
Faster Chords Part 2 (4-3-2-1 Exercise)
How to Play Bass Runs on Guitar
How to Play Slash Chords
Strengthen Your Hand for Bar Chords
Using a Capo to Build Up to Bar Chords
MUSIC READING AND THEORY
Difference Between Root and Tonic
How to Identify the Key of a Song
How to Play Dotted Quarter Notes
How to Read a Lead Sheet
Learn the Guitar Fretboard
Guitar Fretboard Memory Exercises
Music Reading for Guitar Players Part 1: The Music Staff
Music Reading for Guitar Players Part 2: Treble Clef Notes
Music Reading for Guitar Players Part 3: Rhythms, Ties, and Time Signatures
Music Reading for Guitar Players Part 4: 8th Notes, 16th Notes, Dotted Quarter, Tempo
Music Reading for Guitar Players Part 5: 3/8 and 6/8 Time Signatures
Music Reading for Guitar Players Part 6: Repeat Signs
Music Reading for Guitar Players Part 7: Dynamics, Articulations, Tempo Changes, Holds, Multi-Measure Rests
Triads 2: How to Play Triads on Guitar
Triads 3: Unlock the Fretboard with Triads
Triads 4: Triad Improvisation Exercise
SCALES
Comparing Scales and Modes Side by Side
How to Read a Guitar Scale Chart
First Three Guitar Scales (Major, Minor Pentatonic, and Blues)
Three Ways to Play a Chromatic Scale
Five Ways to Play a Major Scale
Five Ways to Play a Minor Pentatonic Scale
Five Ways to Play a Blues Scale
Five Ways to Play a Minor Scale
Five Ways to Play a Harmonic Minor Scale
Five Ways to Play a Melodic Minor Scale
SOLO GUITAR ARRANGEMENTS
Easy Guitar Solo Lesson
Easy Guitar Solo Lesson
Away in a Manger
Early Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson
Order the arrangement.
Bring a Torch, Jeannette Isabella
Easy Solo Guitar Lesson
Easy Fingerstyle Guitar Solo
Can't Help Falling in Love – Tutorial
Deck the Halls
Easy Solo Guitar Lesson
Order the arrangement.
Good King Wenceslas
Easy Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson
Greensleeves/What Child Is This
Early Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson
Happy Birthday
Easy Guitar Solo and Lesson
Free PDF available on my free downloads page.
Easy Fingerstyle Guitar Solo and Lesson
Free PDF available on my free downloads page.
Easy guitar solo demo.
Easy Solo Guitar Lesson
Kumbaya
Easy Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson
Listen Before I Go (Billie Eilish)
Easy Fingerstyle Guitar
Easy Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson
Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson
Easy Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson
Free PDF available on my free downloads page.
Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson
Late Intermediate/Early Advanced Guitar Lesson
Easy Guitar Lesson
Order the arrangement.
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Early Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson
Early Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson
Early Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson
Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar
Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar
Easy Fingerstyle Guitar
Free PDF available on my free downloads page.
Easy Guitar Lesson
Order the arrangement.
Silent Night
Easy Guitar Lesson
Early Intermediate Solo
Easy Fingerstyle Lesson
Easy Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson
Order the arrangement.
Wonderful Tonight
Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson
PERFORMANCES/RECORDINGS
Jazz Combo
Tenderly
Jazz Combo
Quickly learn the names and numbers of the guitar strings.