Jerry explains some rhythms and chords on acoustic guitar, and this lesson will be useful also for beginners. The focus in this lesson is to learn how the same chord shape work over the neck. John Petrucci use this type of chords in "The Silent Man" and "Solitary Shell" of Dream Theater.
Marcus Lavendell welcomes you to a three-level-lesson/solo (beginner, intermediate & advanced). The scales we use in this solo is e-minor, harmonic minor and pentatonic blues scale.
Gabriel Leopardi gives a classic rock lesson for beginner players. This one is great to practice different soloing techniques and rock & blues rhythm guitar.
This one is a clean rock solo that begins with a nice melody played in octaves and then some interesting rock licks. This solo reminds me of Jimi Hendrix, John Frusciante, and Steve Vai clean stuff.
Gabriel has prepared an easier rock lesson for beginners inspired by Joe Satriani. The lesson contains an easy riff (+ power chords) and then a simple melody using some licks that are often used by Satriani.
Kosei shows the second and final part of Spanish Romance. As the piece modulates into the major key, it requires a bit of left hand stretch. Also - it will show you some interesting chord shapes. Good luck!
Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian... Modes can be very confusing! Wallimann created this lesson to help you memorize the 7 modes taken out of a Major scale. This lesson should definitally boost your mode knowledge!
Not only is the chord played in a different position, but the note order is changed around. This results in different sounds from the chords as different notes are emphasized. It's also used in soloing, but that's at a later stage and is somewhat 'Jazzy' in approach.
This acoustic guitar lesson is in key of G major, contains finger-picking, strumming, arpeggios, natural harmonics etc. This is NOT hard stuff to play, but has nice sound and cool licks that you can play on acoustic.