Lessons Menu

 The Master Plan: Reach your full potential as a Guitarist/Musician
 Basic Music Theory for Beginners

1. From the major scale to (hopefully) understanding how things work

 From the chromatic scale to the major scale
 The major scale on guitar
The major scale – position playing file
 Intervals explained
 Intervals explained
 Intervals explained P2 – On Guitar
 From the major scale to the harmonized scale (Pt.1 triads)
 Triads Inversions: 1st 2nd inversion – Pt1 close
 Triads Inversions: 1st 2nd inversion – Pt2 spread vocing
 Triads on guitar – all inversions
 Understanding how triads and other chords are built
 From the major scale to the harmonized scale (Pt.2 7th chords)
 The major scale harmonized
 Common 7th chord shapes
 Simple song analyzed
 Chord scale exercise
 Chord scale exercise file

2. The Blues

 3 simple 12 bar blues forms
 3 simple 12 bar blues forms
 Basic pentatonic major-minor
 Basic Pentatonic stuff/blues scale
 More Advanced Blues stuff (the Miles/Robben thing)
 Advanced Blues stuff Pt 2 – Solo Explained
 How to comp on a Blues/Jazz progression
 How to comp on a Blues/Jazz progression transcription
 Minor Blues

3.Getting it all together

 Play a pop solo

Download G major Backing Track >Here<

 Phrasing – Build your own vocabulary of melodic material

4.The Jazzy stuff (but good for every style!)

 2-5-1 Pt1:Explanation
 2-5-1 Pt2:Examples
 2-5-1 All keys
 Adding Chromatic Approach
 Chromatic Approach
 Interval Color for Soloing
 Intervals inside Major Scale
 2-5-1 minor
 2-5-1 minor 8 note minor scale
 7th Arpeggios
 7th Arpeggios Examples
 Connecting 7th arpeggios with scales
 Expand your vocabulary Pt1
 Expand your vocabulary Pt2
 251 Example Phrase Exercise
 Chords for Autumn Leaves
 Altered Chords Pt1
 Altered Chords Pt2

Chord extensions (coming soon)

 Easy standard jazz song analyzed
 Lead Sheet

contemporary pop song analyzed (coming soon)

 How to transpose
 Transpose sheet

how to learn a tune – transposing the chord structure (coming soon)
scale choice (coming soon)
more chord scale (coming soon)

 Modes of major scale pt1
 Modes Pt1
 Modes of major scale pt2
 Modes Pt2
 Modes of major scale pt3
 Modes Pt3
 Modes of the major scale Pt4
 Chord Scale Relationship, a practical tip
 Tritone Substitution/Passing chords

modes of melodic minor (coming soon)
modal playing (coming soon)
bebop style (coming soon)

 Quartal Harmony/Playing in Fourths

melodic development (coming soon)

 Diminished scale Pt1
 Diminished scale Pt2
 Harmonic Major Scale

dualities (coming soon)
altered pentatonics (coming soon)

 Note Choice

5. Special topics

 Considerations on practicing – the power of your mind
 On how to find new and original material
 Open Strings Voicings
 Open Strings Voicings
 Playing with a Slide – Tips
 Harmonics on guitar
 Harmonics on guitar
 Jog Scale
 Jog Scale – 5 inversions
 How to use a capo – different approaches
 More open strings voicings – Hall Goes West
 Hall Goes West- Transcription
 Power Chords – From Basic to more advanced structures
 Power Chords – All Shapes
 Layers
 Recycling Melodic Material

build your own vocabulary (coming soon)
build your own scale (coming soon)
playing with Rhythm (coming soon)

 Factorial Thinking (Combinations applied to music)
 3 Notes Per String Pentatonic
 3 Notes Per String Pentatonic Fingerings
 Using different Guitar Picks
 Triad Pairs

polyrhythm (coming soon)
slash chords (coming soon)
comping (coming soon)

 Playing ‘out’
 Tips:Play Giant Steps on guitar
 Advice on sound: Creative noises
 Funk Guitar Comping Tips

6. Technical exercises

 Guitar Technique: Left Hand Posture Tips
 Guitar Technique: Rhythms
 Finger combinations Pt.1
 Finger combinations Pt.2 – the next level
 Finger combinations file
 Never-ending chromatic scale
 Spider with a twist
 Right hand Technique – inside/outside picking
 Right Hand Exercise – Just RH
 Right hand strum – different divisions/accents
 Bending exercises
 Vibrato – A few different approaches
 Legato: Technique and exercise

7. A day in the life of a musician

 On how to find the best gig for you as a guitarist/musician
 Musician’s Health

Hi, and welcome to my free video guitar lessons website. This is a collection of videos I will be putting together over time. My goal is to humbly pick up from where a lot of websites seem to stop. It is great to learn a lot of so called ‘licks’ or riffs, as these will be part of your repertoire/vocabulary…instead of doing that, here I will try to give you ideas on how to write your own material and improvise/build a solo over it. A lot of this stuff might seem jazz/rock oriented but I will assure you, it will give you a lot of freedom to play on contemporary material, regardless of the style.

In this page you’ll find a program that I developed to go from the very basic way of building a major scale and finding how to play it on guitar, to more advanced concepts to develop your style and improve your instrumental technique.

This might turn out to be a very long project as I am doing everything myself, from designing and updating this website to editing the videos and everything in between…so if you enjoyed these lessons or you feel this was beneficial to you in any way click here to find  how to support this website.

If you want to find out more about me just visit my website www.GianniChiarello.com or my Youtube Channel. If you have any request for topics, I will try as far as my knowledge can stretch to make a lesson about it.

Disclaimer

The opinions expressed in the videos are my personal opinions on music, and reflect my point of view on how to approach certain topics on the instrument. I have been teaching/performing for over 25 years now, and I have been lucky enough to learn and play with some of the most respected musicians on the planet. Having said that there is no unique way (at least that I know of) to get to ‘know it all’. What works for me might not necessarily work for you. Also there are no shortcuts or magic button. It takes time and dedication to know the instrument and get to the level of the masters…But it is doable… Even though there are loads of videos on line on how to learn to play, I must say that there is no substitute for a one-to-one lessons with an experienced teacher, because he/she can point out problems in your playing, problems that you might not be able to see by yourself. It might seem expensive to get private lessons, but if you think along the lines of ‘time is money’, you’ll end up saving a lot!