Lessons for guitar students. Here’s a list of all the lessons I have currently and the links to their pages. A few are just video or audio but many have a video lesson, pdf chord and lyric charts and/or tabs and some also have notation. I hope something here can be of some use to you, fellow guitar or ukulele player! And if you’re looking for a custom video lesson you don’t see here, just reach out!
more free content, song playing instruction at https://patreon.com/guitarcat
| Lesson | Description |
|---|---|
| G Major scale, first, second and third positions | Being able to play the same scale in three different positions is pretty handy- it gives you a better “spacial” sense on the fretboard |
| Play more melodically | What you can add and what you can leave out |
| Blues in A minor | Play expressively over the top of an A minor blues |
| Pentatonic power chords | A quick overview |
| Major scale intervals | an introduction to playing major scales on guitar |
| Custom Video Lessons | Interested in learning a particular song? I’ll create a study video for both hands with a pdf of chord charts and tabs for that. |
| Major scale intervals | The rebar-reinforced concrete platform that western music depends on. A great concept to understand if you want to know how the guitar works as an instrument. |
| Blues by the numbers | You might know the pentatonic scale… but do you REALLY know the pentatonic scale? |
| Blues guitar | Some fundamental blues concepts to get you started. |
| Building major chords from the 5 string | You can build chords from any string really but here’s a simple yay to build them from the 5 string. |
| C scale in the first position | This is where we like to start. Everything else falls into place once you know this. |
| Counting for guitar players | Everybody can count, right? Some folks can count better- more rhythmically- though. Let’s figure out how to do that. |
| Play-better-by-thinking-about-movies | Visualizing a guitar playing tool? tell me more. |
| Travel Guitars | A look at some options. |
| Build major chords from the 5 string | major chords from the 5 string |
| Plain Vanilla C Major | Don’t discount the value of seeing the same thing in different ways. C Major for instance – we can understand this in 5 different ways! |
| Getting Started | Getting started with guitar. Welcome, fellow guitarist! |
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I most enjoy the interaction between myself and my students. There is something profoundly cool about helping a guitarist or a uke player on their own path. I find working with beginners- especially adult beginners- is both humbling and fulfilling. I like to think I offer an excellent product! And I truly enjoy working with people who are either looking to take up this wonderful instrument or improve their playing. My remote students get a combination of real-time coaching and personal customized video lessons and in-person students get the advantage of one-to-one focused attention, of course. We start out with a goal -usually a song you want to learn- decide when we’ll meet, and figure out how long it’s going to take to get it the way you want.