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Well, I am 51 years young today and playing a blues jam on guitar tonight. What a coincidence that I get my first paying gig in Colorado on my birthday. If you are in the Cherry Creek area around Denver the gig is tonight from 8-12. It’s at a place called the Q. Come on out and say hello.

I want to say a big THANK YOU to all of you for reading my lessons, watching the videos, being valued clients and generally keeping me on my toes. This might sound like a big cliche but it’s true, without you all this would not exist. I hope you all take the time to be thankful for something in your life today as well.

For the rest of this post I want to share a few thoughts with about playing guitar, practicing, etc…

First I want you to be aware of all the free lessons and stuff you have access too. You have this blog of course. I also have a kind of “secret blog” here…

http://leadguitartactics.com/lessons/

If you have not checked it out there is about 45 minutes worth of video and a bunch of tab and some jam tracks. You should follow the blues and rock soloing lessons in order which means starting with the older posts first.

I also have the Pentatonic Scale report you can find on this blog and the following report that you might want to check out.

8 Steps

Finally, I have been thinking about the best piece of advice I could give to help us all learn to play the guitar better and here it is. Be as systematic as you can possibly be. It’s the fastest way to make and track progress. What do I mean when I say be systematic? Here are a few but not close to all the possibilities.

1. Be systematic about your practice time. If you set aside the same time to practice each and every day it will soon become a habit. Think of the progress you could make with daily practice time set aside.

2. Have an outcome in mind and design your practice to reach your outcome. Read the report 8 Steps above.

3. Have a routine. If you working on a new scale play it 25 times a day, etc…your routine should consist of a couple of things that you want to focus on and practice daily. Resist the urge to keep jumping around to bunch of new stuff. Stay focused.

4. Even though practice and routine stuff can be tedious and frustrating remember to have some fun. Put on a jam track and go for it.

To end this post the best gift I could get from you all today is a comment below letting me know what kind of lessons you want to see posted here in the future.

Best Wishes,

Bob

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If you saw my recent e-mails then you know that my son Sean is into beginner jazz guitar. He is playing in the jazz band at his new high school. Since he knows nothing about jazz guitar I am going to be teaching him based on what I think he needs to know and his needs for the class.

I decided to try an experiment and share his lessons as part of a course in beginner jazz guitar. Here is video one.

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If you want to learn more about getting in this course on beginner jazz guitar click here. You can also download a free report on seventh chords on that page.

Since I will be moving ahead with these jazz guitar lessons the registration is only open until Monday night.

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In the last couple of lessons we have talked about using arpeggios and modes. Specifically the ionian mode and the mixolydian mode. We also talked about the use of tension and release and how arpeggios fit into the picture. In this video we are going to combine what we have covered up to this point and play over a Gmaj7 to D7 progression which is the I to V in the key of G.

Both of the arpeggios in this lesson are comfortable to play on the guitar. They also provide a good workout for all the fingers on the left hand. When you start to play over changes and understand on some level whats going on when you are using arpeggios and modes, you are making the leap to more advanced guitar playing.

As you will see in the video, it’s more about tthe chords than the modes. Enjoy the lesson. By the way, each chord lasts for 8 measures on the jam track.

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To download the jam track click here.

To download the written part of this lesson click here.
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I hope you enjoyed this lesson on using arpeggios and modes. Now get out your guitar and apply this lesson.
If you have any questions or comments let me know.

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This lesson is on the use of the mixolydian mode and how it relates to the major scale.
It is actually a continuation of last weeks lesson on using arpeggios.

If you would like to learn more about the how to get the full course click here.

In the meantime, here is this weeks lesson. Grab your favorite guitar and settle in.
This is a meaty lesson.

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If you have any questions about the mixolydian mode or this lesson, let me know.

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This video explores the idea of using arpeggios. It’s very similar to another lesson I posted recently but I want to take another shot at it.

The other video is older and I did not have the original file so it could not be downloaded. And, I thought I could maybe do a better job of explaining things.

I have posted the jam track and a pdf with a few thoughts as well. There are diagrams and tab for the G major scale and the arpeggio.

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Using Arpeggios 1 PDF

Enjoy and be sure to let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Best Wishes,

Bob

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