Technical Guitar Tutorials

 In addition to the tutorial videos showing blues music, I have also made a number of other videos giving assistance with technical aspects of guitar playing and setup. Here they are listed below. Just click on the name to open the related videos:


 
12 Bar Blues


How to Play the 12 Bar Blues


How to Play the 12 Bar Blues Shuffle

How to Play the 12 Bar Blues Shuffle - Short Version


12 Bar Blues Shuffles in Open C

12 Bar Blues Shuffles in Open D
Alternate Tunings

Open C Tuning

Open D Tuning


Open G Tuning

Dropped D Tuning
Blues Scales


Hexatonic Blues Scale

Chords


How to Play the F Chord

The 3 Chord Trick



Using 7th Chords

Key to the Highway Chords

Developing Thumb Independence


All 20 Lessons Condensed

Part 4

Part 3



Part 2

Part 1
Fingerpicking - Advanced Techniques

Fingers to Use in Fingerstyle Guitar

Fingers v Plectrums v Thumb Picks

Fingerstyle Blues in Different Keys


Fingerstyle Blues in E

How to Play Natural Harmonics

How to Read Guitar Tab

Palm Muting

Picking a Guitar for Fingerpicking

Setting the Action on your Guitar

Setting the Intonation on your Guitar

Scale Length of the Guitar

Slide Guitar


How to Setup your Guitar to Play Slide

Slide Guitar - The Basics

Slide Guitar - Advanced Techniques

Time Signatures


The 12/8 Time Signature

Travis Picking in 3/4 Time

Triplet Feel

Turnarounds


Turnarounds - The Basics

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