Introduction to this subscription series.

Learning strategy: use a notebook.

Lecture and Demonstration: Grip, Bending, and the Importance of Using a Strap.

Learning the Notes on the Fretboard.

String Bending, Blues Style, with reference to the music of B.B. King. Exercises with a focus on pitch to improve your technique.

Triads. Learning C Major triads, including inversions, horizontally and vertically on the fret board.

Applying triads in music, using a VI IV I V progression in G Major. How to practice and make your own backing tracks with BOSS RC-1 Loop Station.

How to change strings. Tomo also recommends various strings for guitar players to try.

From Triads to Bb Blues.

Choosing the right inversions of triads to play a melody: Twinkle Twinkle.

Learn R 3 7 Chords: Muting Technique, Playing A Blues, Playing Bb Blues, Practicing with a Metronome. Guitar: 1965 Fender Stratocaster. Amp: Nolatone Club Master.

Three things to practice daily: chromatic scales, triads and playing R 3 7 groove with a metronome. Also: setting up your amp to get the most out of your practice time. This lesson features a classic Fender 1965 Stratocaster and a Nolatone Club Master amp.

Reviewing (1) Triads in C and F and (2) Triads in Bb Blues. PRS Silver Sky. Lehle P-Split. Fender Pro Reverb Amps.

Focus on Rhythm. This Lesson will be especially helpful to players who struggle with Sixteenth Notes, Alternate Picking, and Playing a Funk Groove. No guitar in this lesson!