Free Guitar & Bass Lessons

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Free Guitar Lessons

For this lesson, we slow things down a bit by taking a deeper dive into the musical alphabet and how we can apply it to our guitars.
We use arpeggios in this lick but this time on alternating major chords, Mark also incorporates hybrid picking!
Let's trade off with Lance in this blues track with a focus on really trying to master the bending technique.
Now it's time to utilize all of the skills we’ve learned and put them into our solo. It's country... with a twist!
RD breaks down range for this lesson, and how to take it into account when writing a piece of music.

Free Bass Lessons

Let’s give our right-hand technique a workout by learning to alternate our picking between the index and middle fingers.
Let's move on to our next Core Skill. Few scales are more synonymous with a genre than the Pentatonic Scale and Rock. In this lesson, Alex will cover the Major and Minor Pentatonic scales in the keys of C and G in two positions.
In this lesson, Larry introduces the concept of turnarounds and walks through a couple of options you can use in your blues playing.
In this lesson, Alex Scott highlights the first of 6 funk performances. Let's get funky with "Papa's Comin' Home!"
Join Braun as he walks through some of jazz's most popular song forms. Understanding song forms can help you memorize songs faster and make you a more versatile player.