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Intermediate Guitar Path

With Tom Quayle, Richard Lundmark, Al Joseph and 4 more
IntermediateFusionTechnique 18 tutorials158 lessons5h 39m

You know your chords and basic scales. Now build real technique, learn to improvise, grow your chord vocabulary and use it all in songs and style studies.

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Part 1Technique and Concepts

  1. 1 Tutorial · 5 lessons · 15m Legato Technique - Hammer Time! Rick Graham Hey there and welcome to this month's follow up tutorial. It's hammer time you lot! Now that you have practiced the basic principles we went over in the previous tutorial, you are ready to take a step forward...
  2. 2 Tutorial · 7 lessons · 8m The 'Howe' Vibrato Steve Hubbard Hi folks! Today's lesson is on a very popular technique, used in modern fusion! I am of course referring to the famous 'slide vibrato' used by the great Greg Howe, that has become extremely popular over the...
  3. 3 Tutorial · 5 lessons · 11m Hybrid Picking - Solo Study Rick Graham Hey everyone and welcome to this new tutorial on Hybrid Picking! For the uninitiated, Hybrid Picking is a technique which requires the use of pick and right hand fingers. It's a technique which is used by all...
  4. 4 Tutorial · 7 lessons · 5m Picking Inside the Strings Sean Conklin Welcome to the "Picking Inside the Strings" tutorial! First thing you'll want to do is watch the video and notice the difference between picking "inside" the strings and picking "outside" the strings. You can...
  5. 5 Tutorial · 15 lessons · 1h 21m All About Harmonics Richard Lundmark Greetings Guitar Slingers! Welcome to yet another (long) tutorial from yours truly. This time we will dive deep into the wonderful world of Harmonics! The theory, concepts and practice of harmonics in all its...
  6. 6 Tutorial · 9 lessons · 9m Work On Your Bends! Al Joseph In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how I approach tightening up my intonation while bending. It's simple! You start from a note and end with another note. However, the concept is a lot easier than the...

Part 2Scales and Improvising

  1. 7 Tutorial · 16 lessons · 41m Playing Over Changes Tom Quayle 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 to be dealing with...
  2. 8 Tutorial · 15 lessons · 19m Visualizing Pentatonics Tom Quayle 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 pentatonics can...
  3. 9 Tutorial · 10 lessons · 18m Visualizing the Fretboard - Major Scales and Modes Tom Quayle Hi there guys! Welcome to this tutorial on how to Visualize the Fretboard. This tutorial is going to deal with learning major scales and their modes and how to visualize them on the guitar. I'm sure in your...
  4. 10 Tutorial · 6 lessons · 7m Unlocking the Fretboard Richard Lundmark So how do we get from A to B? How do we go from strict ”box” thinking, to literary thinking “outside the box”? Well as the great Miles Davis said “First learn the rules, the break them”. What does...
  5. 11 Tutorial · 9 lessons · 11m Expand Your Improvisation With Line Alterations Richard Lundmark Greetings Guitarslingers! Welcome to my tutorial on Line Alteration! As is mentioned in the video, the goal of this tutorial is for you to understand the concept of line alteration, not just to learn the licks...
  6. 12 Tutorial · 6 lessons · 8m Tackling Major/Minor Modes Al Joseph Today, I've written 3 lines for you in Eminor/Gmajor. I don't play or think in terms of "Aeolian" or minor mode that much actually. I tend to hear the relative major mode. For instance, in this case we are in...

Part 3Chords

  1. 13 Tutorial · 7 lessons · 24m Minor Blues Tom Quayle Hi everyone! Welcome to this tutorial on the minor blues. The minor blues is much like our beloved standard blues in many ways. It contains 3 primary chords, is generally 12 bars long and doesn't follow our...
  2. 14 Tutorial · 7 lessons · 20m Quartal Harmony Tom Quayle Hey there Guys! Welcome to this month's tutorial. This time we'll be looking at a form of harmony known as Quartal Harmony. Before we get into that though lets have a look at what normal harmony is in a...
  3. 15 Tutorial · 7 lessons · 22m Shell Voicings Tom Quayle Hi there everyone and welcome to this tutorial on Shell Voicings. Shell voicings are chords which contain the minimum number of voices or notes required to outline a particular harmonic sound. In other words...

Part 4Songs and Application

  1. 16 Tutorial · 19 lessons · 25m Funk 101 Richard Lundmark Greetings Guitar slingers! Welcome to my tutorial on funk rhythm guitar playing! As I mention in the video, there are many, many variations on funk guitar playing. There is single note funk (more like playing...
  2. 17 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 6m 'Use the Blues' Rick Graham Hey people! In this lesson I'd like to discuss basic 12 bar blues improvisation. Although this element of music is taught all over the world and has been for quite some time, I feel that a lot of players can...
  3. 18 Tutorial · 5 lessons · 8m Drop B Tuning Etude Lucas Fowler Hey guys, this month we're going to look at Drop B tuning. This tuning(B-A-D-G-B-e) simulates the sound of a seven string guitar and allows for some cool chord shapes and heavy riffs. Check out the short track...
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  1. Tutorial · 2 lessons · 4m Economy of Motion - Economy Picking Rick Graham Hello and welcome to my new tutorial on Economy of motion. In this tutorial we will be focusing on the key elements required to play the guitar with the minimum amount of physical exertion. In this first...
  2. Tutorial · 21 lessons · 17m Finger Tapping - From Basic to Craziness! Sean Conklin Welcome to the Finger Tapping Tutorial! This is a fairly large tutorial that spans from beginning to advanced levels. So no matter what skill level you're at, I'd encourage you to go through the whole thing...
  3. Tutorial · 5 lessons · 6m 16th Note Displacement Sean Conklin Welcome to the 16th Note Displacement Tutorial! What are 16th notes? 16th notes add up to 4 counts in one beat. So you have a total of 16 counts in a measure that has 4 beats. Full 16th note measure: "1 e + a...
  4. Tutorial · 5 lessons · 10m Creating Your Own Pulse Chris Feener Part 1: Creating Your Own Pulse - An Introduction to 8th Beat PolymetersWhat this lesson will introduce, or engrain in your brains is just another method for making your improvisational skills set you apart...
  5. Tutorial · 4 lessons · 5m The Downward Slide Technique Sean Conklin In this tutorial, we're going to explore a cool sliding technique that can add some spice to your playing. This "downward slide" basically involves your finger quickly sliding from a higher point on a string...
  6. Tutorial · 4 lessons · 15m Vibrato and Timing Richard Lundmark Welcome to this follow-up to the Vibrato 101 tutorial. As I mentioned in that tutorial, I thought that timing and vibrato merits its very own tutorial, so here we go. First of all, remember how we discussed...
  7. Tutorial · 9 lessons · 22m Right Hand Dynamics Steve Hubbard Hi there! Welcome to my tutorial on 'Right Hand Dynamics.' The point of this tutorial is to touch on various concepts, and techniques, that will help you develop a myriad of tones, sounds, and dynamic levels...
  8. Tutorial · 3 lessons · 6m How to Play Harp Harmonics Sean Conklin Welcome to the Harp Harmonics Tutorial! Here we will lean how to play harp harmonics as well as how to incorporate them into musical contexts. Harp harmonics are played when a finger on your picking hand...
  9. Tutorial · 7 lessons · 7m Metal Riffing with 16th Note Triplets Sean Conklin Hey everyone! Welcome to the "Metal Riffing with 16th Note Triplets" tutorial. Today we're going to focus on a group of rhythmic notes called 16th Note Triplets, also known as sextuplets. First off, let's go...
  10. Tutorial · 6 lessons · 16m Pedal Tone Legato Sean Conklin Welcome! In this tutorial, we're going to explore a technique I call "Pedal Tone Legato". This is a classically-influenced technique that combines different elements of legato and pedal tones. Before we learn...
  11. Tutorial · 16 lessons · 27m Mauro Giuliani - 120 Right Hand Studies Rick Graham Hello and welcome to my new tutorial focusing on the 120 studies for the right hand written by virtuoso guitarist/composer Mauro Giuliani. Mauro Giuliani was born in the coastal village of Bisceglie in the...
  12. Tutorial · 10 lessons · 23m Muting Techniques Richard Lundmark Welcome to this tutorial on Muting Technique! In this tutorial we will be taking a closer look at some various uses of muting for rock rhythm playing. First of is the good old palm muting we all know and love...
  13. Tutorial · 7 lessons · 13m String Bending Rick Graham Hey there and welcome to this tutorial on String Bending technique! I personally feel that this particular technique is often neglected by guitarists even though it is something which can help your...
  14. Tutorial · 6 lessons · 27m String Skipping Arpeggios Richard Lundmark Hey guys, and welcome to this lesson on string skipping arpeggios! We will be looking major and minor arpeggios, and how to transform them into string skipping arpeggios, and also adding other notes from the...
  15. Tutorial · 14 lessons · 43m Timing and Note Value Alteration Richard Lundmark Welcome guitar slingers! The goal of the Timing and Note Value Alteration tutorial is to expand your improvisational and musical abilities drastically. When you apply these concepts, I can guarantee you that...
  16. Tutorial · 6 lessons Pentatonic Finder Richard Lundmark Welcome guitar slingers! The goal of the ”Pentatonic Finder” tutorial is for you to be able to improvise freely across any key changes, anywhere on the neck, and learn how to conceptually visualize scales...
  17. Tutorial · 5 lessons · 5m Practicing Scales: Right Hand Technique Rick Graham Thanks for joining me in this latest tutorial where we will be looking at various ways of practicing scales. Spending a lot of time playing scales can be extremely boring, especially if we employ few ways of...
  18. Tutorial · 6 lessons · 10m Improvisation 'The II-V-I' Mike Edwin In this tutorial, I hope to enlighten you somewhat in the ways of improvisation. Particularly on the subject of outlining chords. We will be having a look at several short musical phrases and analyzing them in...
  19. Tutorial · 4 lessons · 8m Creative Scales - Pentatonic Hybrid Scale Rick Graham Hey everyone and welcome to this Creative Scales tutorial! We are going to get creative with the Pentatonic scale by creating a hybrid of two scales: A minor Pentatonic and E minor Pentatonic What we are going...
  20. Tutorial · 10 lessons · 45m Perception vs. Harmonic in Rock Fusion Richard Lundmark Welcome guys, to a perhaps somewhat "out there" tutorial =) What we will set out to do here is to open our ears and improvising up to the harmonic context of any chord of choice we might be laying over, be it...
  21. Tutorial · 7 lessons · 8m Seventh Arpeggios Rick Graham Hey all, thanks for joining me! In today's lesson we are going to be focusing on Seventh Arpeggios. What we are going to do is take 5 different 7th chord types: 1) Major7th 2) Minor7th 3) Dominant7th 4)...
  22. Tutorial · 2 lessons · 4m Linear Scales Robert Mussatti This lesson will help you in your quest in breaking out of those standard "Box" shapes and be able to use your entire fretboard. One way is to use what are called "Linear Scales" which are using scales on one...
  23. Tutorial · 9 lessons · 26m Sequencing Pentatonics Richard Lundmark Welcome to this tutorial on Sequencing Pentatonics! A sequence, as I'm sure you know, is a group of notes played together in a specific order. Sequencing scales is very common in classical music, or classical...
  24. Lesson · 2m Major Chord Voicings Mike Edwin Welcome! For this lesson I just wanted to introduce some new voicings to your vocabulary. All the chords listed here are G Major chords. Most are either basic triads or Maj7th chords. There are a few...
  25. Tutorial · 9 lessons · 5m Expanding Your Chord Knowledge Robert Mussatti Hello, I now bring you part 2 of this tutorial. To start, we will be working with Augmented, Diminished, Sus4, and Sus2 chords. For simplistic reasons, we will be building these (once again) in the key of C...
  26. Tutorial · 5 lessons · 11m Dominant Inversions Mike Edwin Chord Inversions - What are they ?? An inversion is a name for a chord who's notes have been re-arranged. Lets start by looking at the Bb7 Chord. For each inversion I will give you a notated example of each...
  27. Tutorial · 2 lessons · 7m Altered Chords Made Easy Mike Edwin Welcome. In my next few lessons I want to lay out some simple structures that I found valuable when altered chords became more a part of my vocabulary. Although, this is marked as intermediate. Hopefully some...
  28. Tutorial · 7 lessons · 5m Acoustic Chord Progressions Sean Conklin In this tutorial, we're going to learn a handful of simple chord progressions. I played everything on an acoustic guitar, but the progressions and principles can of course be applied to electric as well. Let...
  29. Tutorial · 5 lessons · 4m Drop D Chord Progressions Sean Conklin Hey everyone! Welcome to the Drop D Chord Progressions Tutorial. I recently did a chord progression tutorial based on standard tuning, but in this one we'll be experimenting with the tunings a bit. We're...
  30. Tutorial · 6 lessons · 12m Chord Substitutions Mike Edwin Welcome Guitar Players! Over the next several lessons we are going to be looking at possible chord substitutions that can be used over a 'I Vi ii V' progression. To begin with, I want you to have a go at this...
  31. Tutorial · 8 lessons · 12m Building Speed and Stamina Sean Conklin Welcome to the "Building Speed and Stamina" Tutorial! Throughout this tutorial, we are going to be strengthening our ability to control speed changes while playing. It's critical that we are able to transition...
  32. Tutorial · 3 lessons · 5m Building Speed and Accuracy Robert Mussatti Hello and welcome to this tutorial on building speed and accuracy. One thing that alot of people ask is "How do I get faster?" and of course, the almost automatic reaction is "Practice!" and while that may be...
  33. Tutorial · 3 lessons · 6m Jazz Polymeter Exercise Sean Conklin Hey folks! In this lesson, we're going to learn a jazz rhythm exercise that will help us get familiar with the concept of polymeter. Polymeter occurs when there are multiple time signatures being used...
  34. Tutorial · 5 lessons · 17m Creating Backing Tracks Tom Quayle Hi there guys and welcome to this tutorial on creating backing tracks! We're going to be focusing on how I record my backing tracks with specific reference to the software I use and the plugins used to create...
  35. Tutorial · 4 lessons · 15m Recording With Impulse Responses Tom Quayle Hi there guys! Welcome to this months tutorial which is a slight departure from what you were probably expecting. First let me say that "Playing over Changes Part II' is coming your way next month but I wanted...
  36. Tutorial · 7 lessons · 26m Making of a Song - Deconstructing the Creative Process Richard Lundmark Greeting guitar slingers! In this tutorial we will analyze a song of mine, still in the making. The reason for choosing such a song, is to be able to more easily explain a bit about the creative process in...
  37. Tutorial · 8 lessons · 11m Trusting a Hope Sean Conklin Welcome my friends! In this song tutorial, we're going to learn a rock piece called "Trusting a Hope". The majority of this piece is at an intermediate level, but we'll also be mixing in some advanced...
  38. Tutorial · 5 lessons · 16m The March Guitar Triathlon Richard Lundmark Welcome Guitar Athletes! In this month’s tutorial we’ll be looking a song transcript from my 2004 FretDance album, called The March. We won’t be going into detail with every single overlay and harmonized...
  39. Tutorial · 3 lessons · 5m 'Lullaby' Acoustic Piece Rick Graham Hello again! Welcome to my latest acoustic fingerstyle tutorial in which we will be studying a piece I wrote called 'Lullaby'. I have done some strategic editing as the original piece is much longer and I feel...
  40. Tutorial · 8 lessons · 9m Latin Groove Sean Conklin Welcome! In this tutorial, we're going to delve into some Latin styles. If you enjoy guitarists like Al Di Meola and Steve Oliver, this will be right up your alley. And if you haven't heard of those...
  41. Tutorial · 5 lessons · 9m Rhythm Changes Mike Edwin Hello! and welcome to the Rhythm Changes. This tutorial will have two ends to it. Right now we are just going to learn a 32 bar solo. The solo will be broken up into two 16 bar segments for you to work on...
  42. Tutorial · 5 lessons · 8m Redemption Sean Conklin Welcome! In this song tutorial we'll be learning a piece I wrote called "Redemption". As you go through the tutorial, you'll notice that the entire piece is centered on the following chord progression: C, Em...
  43. Tutorial · 7 lessons · 7m Metal Riff Montage Chris Feener In my last tutorial, I spent a fair bit of time explaining and breaking down the factors that make up polymeters. In essence, we scratched the surface of the concept. This month, I chose to turn up the heavy...
  44. Tutorial · 3 lessons · 3m Classical Guitar Solo - 'Lagrima' by F. Tarrega Rick Graham Welcome! In today's lesson we will be studying the classical guitar solo written by Spanish composer/guitarist Francisco Tárrega (1852 - 1909). Tárrega is considered by many to have been responsible for the...
  45. Tutorial · 3 lessons · 4m Acoustic Synergy Sean Conklin Hey everyone! Here's a little acoustic piece I wrote called "Acoustic Synergy". Why did I call it "Acoustic Synergy"? Because it sounds cool! I hope you enjoy this short tutorial. Once you check out the full...
  46. Tutorial · 7 lessons · 8m Blues Cruise Sean Conklin I hope you've packed your suitcase, because we're about to leave on the Blues Cruise! Okay maybe not, but let's learn a cool blues song while we're here. :) I was in a bluesy mood the other day so I decided to...
  47. Tutorial · 2 lessons · 3m Rock On Pavel Denisjuk Alright! Time for some metal riffing! What we'll do in this lesson is - we'll take a simple key of E but will turn it into a Locrian mode and apply such techniques as standard down stroke picking, a bit of...
  48. Tutorial · 7 lessons · 4m Funk in the Trunk Sean Conklin Funk in the Trunk! Every once in a while, I get a crazy urge to play some funk music. This is a short piece I wrote that focuses on some fundamental funk guitar elements. So grab your guitar, break out the...
  49. Tutorial · 7 lessons · 10m 'Aftermath' by Rick Graham Rick Graham Hey! Thanks for tuning in to this tutorial in which we are going to look at a piece that I have written for my new album called "Aftermath'. Aftermath started off a study I wrote for one of my students. The...
  50. Tutorial · 5 lessons · 6m Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Rick Graham Welcome one and all to this very special rendition of the classic Christmas song 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' performed just for you even more special IG'ists. Snuggle up to the roaring fire and...
  51. Tutorial · 20 lessons · 1h 52m Guitar Setup 101 Richard Lundmark Welcome guitar slingers, to this behemoth of a tutorial on guitar set-up! Proper guitar set-up is something that everybody know is needed, but few know how to do. It’s sort of like the mechanics of a car. We...
  52. Tutorial · 7 lessons · 40m Ear Training for Greater Musical Proficiency Richard Lundmark Welcome to this tutorial on ear training techniques! I’m sure many of you have already had some kind of ear training in school, and are familiar with the concept. What I want to do here is to perhaps give...
  53. Tutorial · 12 lessons · 17m Time Feel - Working your Internal Metronome Tom Quayle Hi guys! Welcome to this tutorial - a lesson all about developing your internal metronome and time feel. Time in music is without a doubt the most important aspect of your playing. This has been demonstrated...

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