Steve Vai’s Online Record Guitar Lesson

Watch live streaming video from berkleemusic at livestream.com I wanted to repost this great online lesson that Steve Vai did for Beklee Music, on Livestream a few weeks ago. It’s always humbling to see a player of his calibre to touch basic topics as chords and strumming, but also to give ‘life’ and business lessons… Continue reading Steve Vai’s Online Record Guitar Lesson

Swing Technique – Jazz Articulation on guitar

In this video I explain how to approach right hand technique to have a better ‘swing’ when playing jazz solos…obviously this works well for any style of music that has back beat (blues, rock and so on…). The idea is to PICK the note on the UPBEAT and SLUR the note on the DOWNBEAT, using… Continue reading Swing Technique – Jazz Articulation on guitar

Most used 7th guitar chord shapes

In this video I show the most common 7th chord shapes, it’s all pretty self explanatory! for the theory you can also checkout these other lessons: https://www.trueguitarist.com/understanding-how-triads-and-other-chords-are-built https://www.trueguitarist.com/from-the-major-scale-to-the-harmonized-scale-pt-2-7th-chords And the shapes I use are here: https://www.trueguitarist.com/LESSON%20MATERIAL/7th%20chords.jpg