High Country Guitar

All Lessons

• 15 Mixolydian Licks

• Arpeggios from the Chord Scale

• Bathtub Gin Improv Ideas (guitar lesson)

• BB King: Sweet Little Angel (Transcription)

• Blues: Mixing Major and Minor

• Box of Rain solo

• Breaking out of the minor pentatonic by targeting the 3rds

• Chicken Pickin’ Stutter

• Cissy Strut: Rhythm Study

• Comping/Rhythm Guitar on 12-bar blues

• Day Tripper – Rhythm Study

• Dorian mode improv ideas

• Expanding on Pentatonics to Create Modes

• Fire On The Mountain – Triad exercise for guitar

• Four Must-Know Arpeggios

• Franklin’s Tower: HCG Rhythm Studies

• Give It Up Or Turn It Loose: Rhythm Study

• Grateful Dead: Alabama Getaway guitar intro

• Grateful Dead: Fire On The Mountain (Dead Set) transcription

• Grateful Dead: Scarlet Begonias (Bob Weir’s rhythm part)

• Grateful Dead: Touch Of Grey guitar solo

• Improvising on Althea by the Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia: Tore Up (guitar intro)

• Jimmy Page: Nobody’s Fault But Mine (major & minor pentatonic)

• Killer Licks Using 6ths

• King Solomon’s Marbles: 9th chord guitar lick

• Lysosome Lick (Golgi Apparatus)

• Modes for Guitarists #1: How The Modes are Created

• Modes for Guitarists #2: Derivative Thinking

• Modes for Guitarists #3: Parallel Thinking

• Modes for Guitarists #4: The Unique Sound of Each Mode

• Modes for Guitarists #5: Mapping the Fretboard

• Modes for Guitarists #6: Choosing a Mode to Fit a Given Chord

• Modes for Guitarists #7: Choosing a Mode to Fit a Given Progression

• Octopus’ Garden guitar intro

• Peggy-O – New Haven 5/5/77 Solo Transcription

• Phish: AC/DC Bag (full-length guitar lesson)

• Phish: Back On The Train (guitar lesson)

• Phish: Bathtub Gin – 10 Ways To Play The Melody

• Phish: Col. Forbin’s Ascent (full-length guitar lesson)

• Phish: Down With Disease – solo intro

• Phish: Down With Disease (full length guitar lesson)

• Phish: Fly Famous Mockingbird (full guitar lesson)

• Phish: Free (guitar hook)

• Phish: Funky Bitch (Trey’s guitar solo)

• Phish: Glide

• Phish: Golgi Apparatus (full guitar lesson)

• Phish: Lizards (full guitar lesson)

• Phish: Maze (studio version) guitar solo

• Phish: Poor Heart intro lick

• Phish: The Curtain (full guitar lesson)

• Phish: The Mango Song (full guitar lesson)

• Phish: The Wedge (full-length guitar lesson)

• Phish: Tweezer (guitar lesson)

• Piper (Phish 7-5-14 Saratoga) – Trey Anastasio’s guitar solo

• Practical Music Theory for Guitarists

• Practical Music Theory unit 1: The ABC’s

• Practical Music Theory unit 10: I – IV – V chords

• Practical Music Theory unit 11: Other common progressions

• Practical Music Theory unit 2: The Major Scale

• Practical Music Theory unit 3: Chord Construction – Triads

• Practical Music Theory unit 4: Chord Construction – Seventh chords

• Practical Music Theory unit 5: Chord Construction – Extended chords

• Practical Music Theory unit 6: Chord Symbols and definitions

• Practical Music Theory unit 7: Chord Scales (triads)

• Practical Music Theory unit 8: Chord Scales (7th chords)

• Practical Music Theory unit 9: Chord motion in 4ths

• Quick Lick: Jean Pierre melody

• Ramble On Rose – Rhythm Study

• Re-imagining The Modes

• Stash (intro lick) – Rhythm Study

• Targeting the 3rds in a 12-Bar Blues

• The CAGED System – An Overview

• The Heart of the Mixolydian Sound

• The Modes for Dead- and Phish-heads: An overview

• The Modes: De-Mystified

• The Music Never Stopped: Rhythm Study

• They Love Each Other (5-8-77) – Solo transcription

• They Love Each Other 5/8/77

• Triads for Guitar (pt. 1): Roadmap

• YaMar: HCG Rhythm Studies

• You Enjoy Myself

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