Technique
Hybrid Picking for Beginners: Start With Your Pick and Middle Finger
Hybrid picking starts with your pick, your middle finger and an open C chord. Here are the five exercises from my first routine, in order.
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Theory
Learn the Notes on the Fretboard: 3 Quick Tips (and an Etude)
Be honest: do you know the fretboard? Three quick tips for learning the notes on the low E and A strings, plus a Stevie Wonder etude that puts them straight into music.
Technique
Pentatonic Sequences: 6 Ways to Break Up the Minor Pentatonic
Sixes, fours, fives and low-note, high-note patterns: the sequences I use to make the minor pentatonic stop sounding like a scale, straight from the lesson.
Technique
The Major Scale in Thirds: A 3rds Sequence Through All Five Shapes
Take a note, skip a note: how to play the C major scale in diatonic thirds through the A, G, E, D and C shapes, with the five exercises from the routine.
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Technique
Major Triads on Guitar: The 3 Shapes I Teach First
Three shapes, two root strings, every key. The routine I start every student on, with the exercises straight from the lesson.
