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Guitar Lessons

Over the years I’ve created dozens of diagrams in Adobe Illustrator to help students of all ages learn how to play guitar. It has been a dream of mine to offer these for free to anyone who is interested. In the first quarter of 2025 I will have all of the lessons posted here. Please enjoy!

Guitar Lessons
February 2, 2025

A Major Scale Patterns

This is basically the major scale mapped out in 3 common positions on the fret board. As far as familiarizing yourself with these patterns goes just start with the first…
Guitar Lessons
January 23, 2025

A Dominant 7 Arpeggios

These are the four shapes I use when improvising over dominant 7 chords. Getting a handle on each one will help you know what notes to play over dominant chords.…
Guitar Lessons
January 23, 2025

CAGED Shapes

The CAGED concept is basically a way to visualize chord shapes across the fret board. The next level of this concept is to teach yourself where the scale notes are…
Guitar Lessons
January 23, 2025

A Minor Scale Patterns

Here are the 3 most important minor scales I begin students with. The natural minor where we start and then we move onto the other two. I'm stressing the important…
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