Intermediate and Advanced Guitar Lessons
Our genre-based lessons primarily focus on learning skills and concepts that pertain to a specific style of music. However, as you will soon learn, many concepts can be applied to several different genres. Phase 2 lessons expand upon concepts taught in our beginner lessons, so it would be a wise idea to check out those lessons before jumping in here!
One of the richest and most uniquely American styles of music, blues has been a major inspiration for jazz, bluegrass, country and rock.
Blues Guitar with Hawkeye
Focus: Iowa Blues Hall of Fame Inductee and famed educator, Hawkeye Herman, will guide you through blues guitar concepts and applications. Beginning at the beginner level and gradually advancing to more difficult material, you will learn chords, the 12 bar blues, the blues shuffle, slide guitar and more.
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Blues Guitar with DJ
Focus: DJ will teach you the 12 bar blues with quite a few chord variations and turnaround options. You will also learn the minor pentatonic scale and how to use it for blues lead play. DJ will also teach you a few modern blues songs to help you master the techniques he teaches.
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Electric Blues with Eric
Focus: Eric Madis will guide you through the world of electric blues. He will start off with the basics of country and urban blues and move on to touch on nearly every facet of electric blues playing.
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Fingerstyle Blues
Focus: Mary Flower combines the best of blues music with amazing fingerstyle arrangements. In this lesson series Mary will get you started in the world of fingerstyle blues.
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Fingerstyle Blues
Focus: Orville Johnson combines his amazing fingerstyle abilities with classic blues music. Orville will introduce you to the necessary concepts of fingerstyle and move on to teach classic blues tunes.
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Electric Blues with Kenny
Focus: Kenny "Blue" Ray will guide you through the world of electric blues. He will cover styles of many of the blues greats as well as throw in his personal library of knowledge.
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Blues Bottleneck Slide
Focus: Orville Johnson, an acoustic blues master, will delve into the world of slide guitar head first. He will discuss the slide, it's history and move on to teaching slide technique and related compositions.
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Blues Slide Guitar
Focus: Slide guitar and Blues go way back, and have a rich heritage of complimenting each other. The slide is a wonderful way to add that "vocal" quality to your guitar playing as well. This technique can be used with all genres of music, but Eric will cover it within the world of Blues.
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Fingerstyle Blues and Ragtime
Focus: Eric Madis covers a uniquely American style of music, the Blues. In this series he tackles the subject from the acoustic fingerstyle perspective and even throws in a bit of ragtime for good measure.
10 Lessons Series DetailsFingerstyle technique allows guitarists to combine melody, bass lines, and harmony to create a complete, orchestral sound.
Fingerstyle Guitar
Focus: Steve walks you through some of the most basic fingerstyle guitar techniques, including lessons for developing finger independence and walking basslines. He teaches these techniques in the context of timeless fingerstyle repertoire and famed fingerstyle songs..
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Fingerstyle Guitar
Focus: Fingerstyle expert and performing artist, Jim Deeming, brings over 30 years of playing experience and his beloved thumb-pick to this lesson series. From basic right hand technique to combining melodies, this is a great series to begin applying fingerstyle to your playing.
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Fingerstyle Guitar with Eve Goldberg
Focus: Eve Goldberg brings years of experience, knowledge and passion to her fingerstyle series. Learn the very basics and proceed to more advanced topics with fun, easy-to-digest lessons.
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Lessons with Erik Mongrain
Focus: Self-taught acoustic guitarist Erik Mongrain shows off some of his innovations in this Phase 2 Artist Series. Lessons include information about guitar setup, advanced harmonics, composition, and performance tips.
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Lessons With Kaki King
Focus: Renowned guitarist Kaki King teaches musicality, altered tunings and percussive elements in her artist series. Kaki also demonstrates fingerpicking technique and hand independence.
23 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsOriginating from a reference to the loud, mechanized sounds of the modern world and the harsh, British factory sounds of the 1960's.
Metal with Dennis
Focus: While musically gifted and classically trained, Dennis Hodges can’t shake the metal bug. This popular JamPlay.com series includes lessons on commonly used metal techniques such as palm muting, slides, bends, octaves, power chords and more.
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Lessons with Kris Norris
Focus: Kris Norris offers an array of ideas and lessons; from changing strings to advanced sweeping / legato techniques and soloing applications. Kris also offers conceptual lessons for song writing ideas and composition.
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Emil Werstler Artist Series
Focus: Up and coming talent Emil Werstler brings you advanced lessons on lead techniques, style and theory applications. Emil's videos also include candid interviews about his background and the inspirations behind his playing.
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Lessons with Tosin Abasi
Focus: Lead guitarist for Animals As Leaders, Tosin Abasi brings his knowledge of extended range guitars to JamPlay, with detailed lessons on various picking styles and emulating bass with the 8 string instrument.
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Lessons with James Malone
Focus: James Malone, founder and frontman of Arsis, teaches intermediate to advanced lessons on various topics in his style of death metal guitar, including advanced legato and tapping.
20 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsOne of the world's great guitar traditions and called ki ho'alu in Hawaiian, slack key developed in the 19th Century as a fun, fingerpicking style.
Hawaiian slack key
Focus: Explore this beautiful style of guitar with heralded slack key guitarist, author and performer, Mr. Mark Kailana Nelson. By blending relaxing melodies with intricate fingerstyle playing, this traditional genre of music is sure to please.
63 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsA sub-genre of country music which blends improvising with folk-like melodies. Pioneered by Bill Monroe in the 1930s in the "bluegrass" state.
Bluegrass Guitar with Steve Eulberg
Focus: Steve Eulberg walks you through the most common techniques in the bluegrass guitar style. He teaches these concepts in a methodical, step-by-step approach that will have you playing in no time.
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Bluegrass Flatpicking
Focus: Orville will cover proper Bluegrass flatpicking technique and move on to teach a plethora of classic Bluegrass tunes.
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Bluegrass with Nick Amodeo
Focus: Starting with History, Nick will cover many aspects of Bluegrass techniques, the role of Bluegrass instruments, then move into some great Bluegrass songs.
13 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsFrom the 1950's to the present, rock and roll, along with its wide range of sub-genres, has dominated popular music.
Rock Guitar with Brad Henecke
Focus: With over 50 lessons and 15 hours of instruction, Brad Henecke brings you the biggest and most comprehensive lesson series at JamPlay. This series begins by reviewing basic concepts, then progressing to advanced rock technique, scale applications, chord progressions and more.
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Rock Guitar with Matt Brown
Focus: Matt Brown offers up 14 lessons in the realm of rock and roll. This series begins with lesson on proper practicing and scale theory basics, then moves into advanced playing applications such as soloing, improvisation and more.
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Rock Guitar with Chris Liepe
Focus: If you like instrumental rock guitar, this series is for you. This series covers three on a string scales, melodic invention, the CAGED system, modes and implementation and Arpeggios. Chris will demonstrate all the things that help you phrase and play with an instrumental rock influence.
16 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsAlthough not a native celtic instrument, celtic-style guitar adapts folk and fingerstyle to accompany reels, jigs, and polkas.
Celtic Guitar
Focus: Steve Eulberg delves into the world of Celtic guitar. He will first talk about the basics of the genre and quickly guide you into some of the genre's most memorable pieces.
23 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsBorn in the 9th century, “classical” guitar is characterized by fingerstyle technique and nylon strings, producing organic timber and dynamic quality.
Classical Guitar
Focus: Composer and song writer, Danny Voris, discusses and demonstrates techniques unique to playing the classical guitar as it's designed. He includes instruction on creating quality tone by shaping finger nails, through advanced picking techniques.
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Classical Guitar with Pamela Goldsmith
Focus: Pamela Goldsmith starts with the basics of classical guitar and moves on to teach some timeless pieces. She will cover proper technique, classical theory and other important concepts.
37 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsA style of American popular music, country has it's roots in the folk music of the rural south and the cowboy music of the western United States.
Country Guitar
Focus: In his country series, DJ explores some of the roots of country music, and goes on to bring you an expanded look at contemporary country.
31 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsThe classic swing sound emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, and blends classic melodies, intricate harmony, and improvisation.
Jazz Guitar with Matt
Focus: In this series, you will learn the music theory and guitar techniques essential to the jazz genre. Matt focuses on concepts such as scales, chord voicings, comping, improvisation, and interpretation of melodies.
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Jazz Guitar with Jane
Focus: Jane Miller dives into the exciting world of Jazz guitar in this lesson series. You will be exploring all different aspects of Jazz with Jane's vast knowledge and easy-to-follow teaching style.
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Jazz Guitar With Dennis Hodges
Focus: Dennis Hodges teaches jazz for students with a rock background. In this series you will learn to play jazz chord progressions and licks without theory being forced upon you.
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Smooth Jazz with Nick Kellie
Focus: Nick Kellie covers smooth jazz, how it relates to guitar playing and the differences from more traditional jazz playing.
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Jazz Guitar with Brendan Burns
Focus: Brendan's jazz series with JamPlay.com covers the basics of jazz chord voicings. Here you will learn about alterations and extensions to commonly used jazz voicings and how they apply in context of Jazz music.
4 Lessons Series DetailsGet your groove on with funk guitar.
Funk Guitar with DJ Phillips
Focus: Learn how to play funk guitar with DJ Phillips.
15 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsFlamenco is an art form originating in Spain that expresses joy, sorrow and passion! This series will teach you to play 'toque' or flamenco guitar.
Flamenco Guitar with Mario DaSilva
Focus: Learn to play the acoustic Flamenco guitar.
29 Lessons Series Details
Flamenco & Spanish Guitar
Focus: Internationally known Latino artist, composer and guitarist explores key Flamenco and Spanish rhythms and progressions. Marcelo breaks down these styles in a proven, easy to understand method.
21 Lessons Series DetailsTraditional and contemporary acoustic music that forms the roots of many genres of music. In this series we explore this foundational style.
Extreme Folk Guitar
Focus: Learn the basics and fundamentals of the lap tapping and extreme folk style of guitar.
25 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsLearn to play in the style of R&B and Soul.
R&B and Soul with Nick Kellie
Focus: The Motown sound that brought us R&B and Soul is characterized by melodic and rhythmic phrasing that cuts through the fix in a simplistic fashion. In this series, learn the foundation for playing in this style.
6 Lessons Series Details
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