Larry Corryell

Here’s Part One of two great lessons by Larry Corryell on using the altered dominant scale in your playing:

And here’s Part Two of Larry Corryell’s lesson

Basics – tuning your guitar

Steve Krenz explains how to do it. From the series Learn and Master Guitar produced by Gibson Guitars.

Basics – changing your strings

Great video from Taylor Guitars – makes a lot of references to their own guitars, but applies to pretty much all makes. You don’t need all the specialist tools, but I wish I had that electric string winder!

Tom Dempsey – My Favorite Thing – TrueFire

Here’s an excellent lesson on using chromatics from the ever-helpful, ever-great guys at TrueFire. Check out the original TrueFire page here.

The lesson is part of TrueFire’s ‘My Favorite Thing’ series. It features Tom Dempsey showing how it’s done in his straightforward, no-nonsense way. Tom is an fantastic guitarist with a cv to die for.

Check it out!

Fareed Haque – My Favorite Thing – TrueFire

Here’s the second of three great free lessons from the excellent TrueFire. Check out the original TrueFire page here.

The lesson is part of TrueFire’s ‘My Favorite Thing’ series. It features FAREED HAQUE demonstrating a useful jazz-blues lick you can start deploying in your solos straight away.

Check it out!

Sheryl Bailey – My Favorite Thing – TrueFire

TrueFire continue to offer some great free guitar lessons on YouTube, in addition to their excellent catalogue of paid-for lessons. This one is with Sheryl Bailey, creator of the Bebop Dojo. It’s part of TrueFire’s ‘My Favorite Thing’ series – check out the original TrueFire page here.

Sheryl shows how you can create great jazz lines using chromatics  to approach and embellish normal chord tones.

Well worth checking out!