Month: June 2026
How to Upgrade Your Octave Playing with The White Stripes
In this lesson we’ll look at how to upgrade your octave playing using the fantastic song ‘In The Cold Cold Night’ by The White Stripes. If you would prefer you can watch a video of this lesson here, https://youtu.be/kzufrPrbW8w What’s happening in this song is very simple, we are playing a sliding octave shape, with…
How to Make Chords Sound Like Real Music
Here’s a look at how to make your chord changes sound like real music. If you can already play open chords, like G, C, D, and Em, but it still doesn’t sound like music. It’s likely a problem with your strumming hand. In this article we’ll look at the idea behind keeping a constant strumming…
How to Make Pentatonic Solos Sound More Musical
You’re probably not using the A minor pentatonic scale properly. And I don’t mean you’re playing the wrong notes. Here’s a look at how to make your pentatonic solos sound more musical, without learning new scales. Most guitar players know this scale pretty early on, and it sounds fine on its own, but when you…
How Do You Know Which Chords Are In A Key?
One of my students asked me recently, “How do you actually know which chords are in a Key?” And I hear that question a lot because most guitar players run into the same problem. You learn chords, you can play a few shapes but when you try putting them together, it kind of just feels…