Teach a movable 2.5-octave major-scale ‘Jethro’ lick for mandolin to map the fretboard, practice shifting, and warm up in all keys.
Filtered: intermediate
Explain how learning Hendrix’s Little Wing connected chord shapes, pentatonic scales, and fretboard visualization into movable voicings and riffs for more musical rhythm-lead guitar.
Share mandolin diagrams of Barry Harris drop voicings and inversions for 6th, dominant, 7b5, and diminished chords, plus clarifying notes on equivalences.
Teach movable mandolin licks using minor pentatonic and blues scales over major chords, adding the major third for bluesy resolutions, with position tips.
Demonstrates how to outline chord changes in solos by finding movable chord shapes within pentatonic patterns (CAGED approach) and practicing integrating chord tones over progressions.
Teach a mandolin 'bag of licks' in G (G, C, D, Em) and how to combine them into solos, with tabs and backing tracks.
Show how to “gear-shift” your picking by accelerating to tremolo, capturing the relaxed motion, then slowing while retaining it; includes a brief exercise and tabs.
Teach a classical guitar arrangement of Satie’s Gymnopédie No.1 with free tab/score links, suitable for early intermediate players.
Teach 50 short blues/rock guitar licks with ideas for transposing across positions and scales, aimed at beginner to intermediate improvisers.
Teach how to play Bill Monroe-style Southern Flavor on mandolin using constant eighth-note right-hand technique to embellish a skeleton melody.
Teach the original crooked-form Bill Monroe Tennessee Blues mandolin melody, detailing odd measures and bluegrass timing to add this standard to your repertoire.
Analyze why the Am–E–C–D–F–Am–B7–E progression works, touching on chromatic bass motion, modal mixture, and functional harmony.
Demonstrates practical phrases and strategies for improvising over jazz ii–V–I changes on guitar, including ear-training, chord-tone targeting, and position-based fretboard mapping.
Explain the melodic minor scale and its seven modes, with an overview of their use in jazz improvisation and how to start applying them.
Teach exercises to connect pentatonic boxes across the fretboard using slides and backing tracks, adding the blue note to travel fluidly between positions.
Teach Steve Vai's four essential beginner-to-intermediate guitar scale shapes—major, minor, major pentatonic, and blues—with practice tips, PDF diagrams, and jam-track application.
Teach a 'Pentatonic Gear Shift' visualization to shift pentatonic shapes across string sets and map one-scale-per-chord improvisation over progressions, with practical demos.
Offer a candid reflection on escaping a guitar plateau by refocusing on the blues/pentatonic scale, phrasing, and learning songs instead of chasing more scales.
Teach a two-shape fretboard visualization to connect pentatonic, blues, major/melodic/harmonic scales and common arpeggio patterns across the neck, with practice guidance.
Outline a roadmap to jazz comping on guitar using shell voicings, drop 2 and drop 3 chords, with guidance on reading chord charts.
Teach a triad enclosure exercise to add authentic jazz phrasing and flow to guitar solos, with practice steps and examples from Joe Pass and others.
Demonstrates a root-focused approach to learning the five pentatonic positions, improving fretboard navigation and chord-targeted soloing across progressions.
