Due to popular demand, I have re-edited all HCG course videos with a "mirror" effect that makes me appear right-handed. These new re-edits are available on the individual lesson pages.
HCG Courses
Take a deep dive on various topics with full-featured courses that include video instruction, PDF study guides, exercises, and sample licks.
Complete Courses for
Improvising Guitarists
Full-length courses for a range of ability levels,
designed to help with specific aspects of guitar playing
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A full-featured guitar course designed to help you learn to navigate the fretboard with a chords-first approach that will keep your sound focused and intentional.
Designed for late beginner and early intermediate players, Base Camp walks you through the CAGED system and pentatonic scales to give you the bread-and-butter improvisational vocabulary that will provide a great foundation, wherever you choose to go with your playing.
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The follow-up to Base Camp, Ascent expands on the concepts of CAGED and the pentatonic scales with 7th chord arpeggios and the modes.
Instead of learning the modes and arpeggios as "dots on the grid," Ascent continues with the chord-based approach so that you can skip the noodling and create melodic solos on the spot.
More courses in the works!
Grateful Dead for Beginners
Learn the guitar through the music of the Grateful Dead.
A Touch Of Blues
Bring a little bit of blues attitude and vibe to your playing, and apply it in just about any musical context you can name.
Coming Soon!
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