Introduction to Advanced Guitar Lessons

Series Summary

Learning how to play the guitar might garner the respect and admiration of your friends and neighbors, but it might also give you a rewarding passion to pursue, whether for a few years or a lifetime. In spite of the raw, sore fingertips and the drudgery of practicing every day, sometimes for hours on end, playing the guitar allows you to express yourself in ways that words cannot. And your playing ability will develop and mature over time, allowing you to create more elaborate musical concepts. But this will not happen without a measure of patience, instruction, and commitment to excellence. In other words, if you want to get good, you have to play through the pain.

In these free advanced guitar lessons on video, learn how to develop your skills even further. Our expert will show you how to play guitar in the seven modes, or interval frameworks, of diatonic music (in the key of A). Learn how to shift from one mode to another in any key. He’ll also cover how to play harmonic and melodic minor scales, skills you will need to break out of the mold of pentatonic minor lead guitar. Finally, get some essential tools for your guitar hero toolbox, including how to do hammer ons and pull offs, how to play slide guitar, how to bend notes, and how to do the famous Van Halen guitar tapping technique.

So, let’s get started.

Video Transcript

"So in this next section here we're going to be talking about the modes. Modes are scales, there are seven of them. They're different versions basically of the major scales starting in different places. Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian. We already know that Ionian and Aeolian mode, those happen to be our major and minor respectively, the natural major and minor that we already now. We will be learning new types of major and minor which are the other modes. We'll also look at the harmonic minor and the melodic minor scales. Variations on our natural minor scales that are used in different purposes over different chord progressions and we'll look at note manipulations. Note manipulations include: slides, bends, hammer ons, pull offs and tapping. Certain things we can do on both guitars and some things we can only do on electric. So we'll demonstrate those on electric. We'll see how using these kinds of notes can make our solos a little more interesting."