Acoustic Guitar 015:  Percussive Guitar Technique... The use of percussive hits played by tapping upon the sound-board of an acoustic guitar will generate interesting rhythmic effects that can add a great deal of dynamic rhythmic expression to any acoustic guitar...

When most guitar players first start trying to play "guitar solos," their soloing is quite often confined to only a few keys. Most commonly, those keys are going to be minor keys of, "A Minor," and "E Minor."  However, over time, (and with more practice studying songs and...

NEW: QwikRiffs Series - Video (016) The latest QwikRiffs video, Dominant Blues (Mixolydian) Riffs in "Bb" is available in the members area. Includes PDF handout! QwikRiffs are available to members at Creative Guitar Studio.com. Lessons in the QwikRiffs Series run through...

Looper pedals are excellent and should be a part of everyone's guitar practice kit. However, the sad truth is that a lot of guitar players buy them and have a terrible success rate with actually using them properly, (getting them to operate the loop function perfectly)... Now,...

One of the most common questions that I'll get asked (especially in the studio by my own private students) is, "How Long Should I Practice Scales?" And, while there's the obvious answers of "until you've reached memorization," and also, "when you've developed a feeling of competency,"...

December 22, 2017: Lesson 015 - Soloing with Lydian Mode Lydian scale is our most valuable sound for covering unique major key situations. Lydian offers us coverage for major key Lydian mode harmony, along with altered major 7th chords and most importantly, for non-functioning...

Our hands with our mind will compensate for inefficiencies with our guitar playing. This causes us to in effect "Cheat" with our guitar technique. What do I mean by this? Well, instead of developing techniques in the most efficient ways, we cheat, and compensate the techniques...

Acoustic Guitar 014:  Gypsy Jazz Chords and Rhythm... The up-tempo beat of Gypsy Jazz combined with the styles' collection of unique chord voicings, makes this a really interesting style to study for all guitar players. In this lesson, we're going to run through...