Fusion Guitar Lessons

Right, here we go! First of all I need to point out that all of these examples are written out in my 4ths tuning - in other words I'm tuned from low to high - E A D G C F. I've done this to...

In this lesson, we're going to learn a solo from a song I recently finished. The solo floats over a 7/8 time signature. If you aren't familiar with time signatures, you can check out a basic...

Right! On to the application of this legato approach. These preliminary exercises are designed to help you warm up and develop your legato and hybrid picking. Preliminary exercise no.1 is ...

When soloing over Major chords and their derivatives we have two scales to choose from. These are Ionian (our standard major scale) and the Lydian scale. The Lydian Scale is what we'll call...

Hi there guys and welcome to this tutorial on Legato and Hybrid picking that I've entitled Modern Legato Application/Approach. In this lesson I'm introducing you to 5 examples of phrases or...

Hi there guys! Welcome to this tutorial on 'Playing Over Changes'. This is the idea of playing or improvising over a series of chords that change key every bar or other bar. We aren't going ...

Hi guys! It's nearly Easter and winter is pretty much gone, so it's time for some funky sounds to prepare for the warmer weather! This tutorial is a song of mine from my upcoming album due...

So, now you have the theoretical knowledge down of which scales to play when you see the relevant chord symbols in a modal context. Your next step is to develop your fretboard knowledge so t...

So throughout this tutorial I already mentioned that we'll be dealing with Modal Progressions which are non-functional. In other words, they don't outline one key centre as with functional p...

The first thing we have to be able to do in order to use the visualization technique described in this tutorial is understand the concept of a sus4 chord. A sus4 chord is a chord containing...

Hi there guys! Welcome to this tutorial on visualizing pentatonic scales for guitar. This tutorial aims to help you break out of the rut that the typical box pattern approach to learning pe...

Hi there and welcome to part 2 of 'Playing over Changes'. This time we'll be dealing with melodic minor chords and their associated scale choices and also with motivic development over chang...

Now onto exercise 2! Hope you got on okay with exercise 1! This one is also over a G major tonality. Things become a bit trickier now with some fairly big stretches. Make sure you're warmed...

I've transcribed the first section of each improvisation leaving you some left to work out and transcribe yourself if you want to. Each transcription should give you an idea of the kind of p...

Well here's the first backing track. Each chord lasts for one bar giving us the two chord sequence. Try playing a continuous scale exercise over this for the whole track.   ||: Gm7...

Here's the TABS for standard tuning. Note that some of the examples have altered fingerings to compensate for the B string in standard tuning. Pay attention to any fingerings written undern...

Hi guys! Today we're going to learn part of a song from my forthcoming debut album. The song is called Sleeper and we're going to start about 3 minutes into the track after the main improvi...

So, how do these sus4 chords relate to our minor pentatonic scale? Well, every minor pentatonic scale contains a couple of sus4 chords which we're going to focus on. Let's take Am pentatoni...

When soloing over minor chords and their derivatives we end up with three scale choices. These are our three minor modes - Dorian, Phrygian and Aeolian. As with major chords we have a 'Go To...

We're nearly there! This is the easiest exercise to expand upon. Try some of the following:- More chords of the same type (try the backing tracks with 4 chords) More chords of different t...

Haha! This isn't my best playing ever but presents some interesting ideas about just how out you can go when you're shredding. I think this is an idea you should use sparingly if possible - ...

Now, on to line playing! All of these examples are TABBED for 4ths tuning but the standard tuned versions are at the end of the tutorial. I recommend you print these out for reference as som...

This first method is based on an idea I took from Greg Howe's playing and is a very 'open' and simple concept. It's based on the idea that music is divided into simple phrases which are the...

Some of example 3 should be familiar to you as it borrows some ideas from example 1, namely the descending Gmaj7 arpeggio at the end of the line. Again, the line is over a G major tonality. ...