Build the foundational skills that will give you complete creative freedom on the guitar. Check out these free samples from the course to see what you'll be learning!
I'm debating whether I should buy the IFR e-book or your video course "Introduction to Improvising on the Guitar". Can you tell me what is included in each one, and what are the pros and cons of each?
In this free sample lesson from "Introduction to Improvising on the Guitar", you will learn the very first step to developing complete freedom of movement on the fretboard.
Thank you for writing your book. I really like your philosophy. Can you explain the difference between the IFR system and the CAGED system?
In this free sample lesson from "Introduction to Improvising on the Guitar", you will learn to move freely all over the neck of your guitar by half steps.
I'm confused about how to understand chord shapes in relation to the major scale. For example, the 3 chord would be notes 3, 5, 7, 2. In learning to see this as a minor chord shape, should I be able to think of this as 3, 5, 7, 2 and 1, b3, 5, b7 at the same time?
In this lesson I demonstrate what chord melody technique is and how it will enrich both your soloing and your accompanying. I also teach you the first step to building a complete chord melody technique on the guitar.
In this video I'll teach you a fantastic creative exercise for learning to see the chord notes in the music all around you. This is the ideal preparation for my chord melody video course.
In this free sample lesson from Chord Melody Guitar 1, we build the tonal map on the fretboard and we begin working with the chord notes of the 1 chord and the 4 chord separately, learning to make our own creative choices about when to use the bass note.
An IFR student asks how to incorporate classical right hand fingerstyle technique in the IFR creative exercises. In this video I demonstrate the two most useful right hand techniques to learn first.