In collaboration with Tony Skinner of the RGT, I recently had published five books
featuring a compilation of works completed over the last few years.



This page contains a series of lessons and ideas that I hope you may find useful and enjoyable.

For private lessons please visit my contact page. I would be more that happy to hear from you.

• Music Theory for Guitarists: A crash course in essential music theory.
  
  

  Music Theory for Gutarists

  Exercise Answers

  
  
• Minor Pentatonic Studies: A series of exercises and phrases in the Minor Penatonic.
  
  

  Pentatonics.pdf (509KB)

  Audio files(1.958KB)



• Major Pentatonic Studies: A series of exercises and phrases in the Major Penatonic.
  
  

  Major pentatonic.pdf (323KB)

  Audio files(3.050KB)



• Blues Scale Studies: A series of exercises and phrases in the Blues Scale.
  
  

  Blues.pdf (483KB)

  Audio files(1.958KB)



• Sweep Picking Studies: A series of exercises demonstrating sweep picking techniques.
  
  

  Sweep Picking.pdf_(96KB)

  Audio files(333KB)



• Jazz Part 1: II-V-I studies: Develop skills playing over II-V-I chord progressions .
  
  

  Jazz-II-V-I.pdf_(2.065MB)

  II-V-I Midi Files(333KB)

  
  
• Jazz Part 2: Minor II-V-I studies: Develop skills playing over Minor II-V-I chord progressions .
  
  

  Jazz-Minor_II-V-I.pdf_(1.5MB)

  
  
• Jazz Part 3: Essential Altered Scales: Learn how to play over those tricky altered dominant chords .
  
  

  Essential Altered Scales.pdf_(805KB)

  
  
• Reading Exercises: Develop reading skills. Play long Sibelius files in C major .
  
  

  C Major Position 1.sib C Major Position 2.sib C Major Position 3.sib

  
  
• Bluesy A7th lick:The blues is a wonderful thing. Here is a nice little lick
  to keep all our blues friends happy. It starts on an G# and ends on an A and has nothing
  weird in it. It's a little bit jazzy and should work in any kind of A shuffle, bluesy,
  turnaround situation that you may find yourself in. It's kind of blues scale, and kind
  of Mixolydian (or A7th to the uninitiated).
  
• Country lick:This lick is a little country thing that uses open strings to
  create a ringy almost pedal steel type of sound. It means you have to jump strings to
  catch the open notes which takes a little practice. It's in the key of D but starts with
  a run on A7th which resolves to D. This is a very common technique used by country players
  to create that Nashville kind of sound.
  

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