Building Chords
Understanding how chords are built is important if you want to know what to do when one is presented to you. Start learning the basics here.
Review lesson: Building Chords
Extensions
Extensions are a great way to add a lot of color to your chords and arpeggios. Think of your root, third, fifth as your sketch outline and anything else is a pallet of colors.
Review lesson: Extensions
Hammer On and Pull Offs
Legato playing can add more texture to your playing. The contrast between articulating picked notes vs. playing them smoothly using hammer ons and pull offs will improve your sound…sevenfold!
Review lesson: Hammer Ons and Pull Offs
Economy Picking
Economy picking is combining the idea of sweep picking and alternate picking. A little tricky to initially implement into your playing if you’re used to just alternate picking but once you start putting some gas to it, it can really elevate your chops!
Review lesson: Economy Picking
Pinch Harmonics
Pinch Harmonics are another type of harmonic you can do on the guitar. This one is done with the thumb that’s holding your pick.
Review lesson: Pinch Harmonics
Palm Muting
One of the many great things about the guitar is its ability to emulate many instruments (including the voice). This also includes being able to emulate percussion and we can do that by palm muting. Learn more here!
Review lesson: Palm Muting
Modes
Modes are scales that are built upon a “parent” scale. A few lessons on this one but let’s start at lesson number one!
Review lesson: Modes
Arpeggios
Arpeggios are basically playing the notes that make up the chord.. Just one at a time. So a C Major arpeggio can be played over a C Major chord, a D minor arpeggio can be played over a D minor chord… make sense? Learn more here!
Review lesson: Arpeggios
Sweep Picking
Sweep Picking is one of those things that seems scary at first but once you get it under your fingers (pun intended), it flows easily. Start learning more here!
Review lesson: Sweep Picking
Pentatonic
The Pentatonic is such a prominent scale especially for us guitarists! Many lessons on this one but let’s start off with the basics.
Review lesson: Pentatonic 
