9:12Guitar Picking Technique Exercises – How to Improve Guitar Picking Accuracy FAST 🎯🔥
If your picking feels stiff and your solos won't flow, the culprit is usually a few habits in your right hand. This lesson covers the two essential pick…
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9:12If your picking feels stiff and your solos won't flow, the culprit is usually a few habits in your right hand. This lesson covers the two essential pick…
10:50If your rhythm guitar sounds flat or mechanical, the fix isn't more notes — it's fewer. The Motown and Stax soul players built their groove on minimalis…
8:25You don't need faster fingers to play more expressive solos — you need better vibrato. In this lesson Adam breaks down how the kings of the blues make e…
9:36The best intros aren't about showing off — they grab the listener and set the singer up to shine. This lesson builds an intro from a single idea, the le…
5:03Two lessons from two legendary teachers changed how Adam sees the guitar — one about the logic of the fretboard, the other about playing the instrument …
6:09What makes a guitarist valuable in a band isn't flash — it's how well you fit. Adam, who also works as a record producer and arranger, breaks down how t…
8:25The Dorian scale is a minor sound with a smoothness that crossed from jazz into rock. This lesson shows what makes it Dorian, how guitarists and compose…
14:03The augmented triad sounds almost wrong on its own — but dropped into a line of chords it becomes hauntingly beautiful, giving a song a climbing, ear-gr…
14:27A capo isn't just for changing keys. Adam shows four creative ways to use one — from a bright mandolin shimmer to layering two capo'd parts into one ful…
12:09Wes Montgomery is the octave idol for a lot of guitarists, and his approach is only the start. This lesson covers how to actually play octaves cleanly, …
7:20The two most important notes in any solo are the first and the last — one brings the listener in, the other satisfies them. Here's how to choose them, u…
4:09Great rhythm guitar comes down to one simple idea, and it's borrowed from the drums. If you treat your strumming hand like a drummer, the groove takes c…
26:46Learn just sixteen open chords and you can play hundreds — if not thousands — of popular songs by the Beatles, the Eagles, James Taylor, Paul Simon and …
15:44Great blues rhythm guitar isn't about big barre chords — it's about getting up high and playing tight, stabby voicings like a horn section. Here's how f…
10:18Funk rhythm guitar — the kind you hear in Earth, Wind & Fire and Tower of Power — comes down to a handful of go-to voicings. These are the bread-and-but…
8:19One small change to a familiar chord opens up a game-changing sound — and understanding why is the key to soloing over it. Here's the I to IV7 move (G m…
12:29Three of Eric Clapton's most recognizable guitar moves, broken down — the double-stops behind Crossroads, the moving-bass triads of Wonderful Tonight, a…
11:30Rhythm guitar really comes down to one thing: dividing the beat. Master that — and the secret of where to accent — and you'll play with the kind of pock…
9:10Do you instantly know every note on the guitar — not after a calculation, but right away? Here's the method Adam uses to truly burn the fretboard in, wi…
11:24Triads are the building blocks of harmony — and learning them across the neck is one of the most valuable things a rhythm player can do. Here's how stri…
7:25Take a plain E minor chord and treat it differently — not as a relative-minor chord, but as a modal one — and you unlock the haunting, Spanish-tinged so…
7:45Most players obsess over which notes to play and overlook the thing that actually makes a solo speak: rhythm. The big idea here is simple — rhythm motiv…
42:08Your first lesson on the guitar — but with a twist. Instead of getting stuck in one position for months, Adam starts you with the underlying logic of th…
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