How to play guitar fast? 

I cannot tell you how many times I heard this question in my life as a guitar teacher. The truth is that playing guitar fast is pretty awesome.

In this video you will learn a few fast licks you can learn and play the next time you’re with your friends. These are fast licks using different techniques to impress your friend and a few girls. So, have fun!

However, playing fast is not the main thing in guitar. When I was younger I used to think that a great guitarist is a fast guitarist. All I wanted was to play as fast as John Petrucci. It didn’t take long for me to learn that it would be impossible because he is way too fast… LOL so I had to change the way I thought about that… LOL.

Playing fast has its value, no doubt. It is a great way to bring intensity and the dynamic of rush in a solo and improvisation, but again, it’s just one aspect of guitar playing. Use it as a means to an end, and not an end alone.

Thomas Dekker

How to solo on guitar in any given key? Can you solo in any given key? What about if it is a minor key? Or major? What about the genre?

It seems almost impossible to know all the scales, right? Major, minor, sharps and flats? It is a lot to memorize, isn’t it? 

How to do that? How can you know all the scales that we have in our guitar? This is what I love about guitar. Guitar is an instrument that is based in shapes rather than notes. That fact makes our lives as guitarist much more simple!

Well, in this lesson you will learn a very simple and practical way for you to be able to do exactly that: solo in any key, major, or minor, any genre! You will learn how to use one single shape that will work for everything: Any given key, major or minor!

Thomas Dekker

Have you been playing guitar for a while and you still struggle when it comes to finding the notes on the fretboard? Know this: YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

How to learn all the notes on the fretboard? 

It seams almost impossible, right? And I'll tell you that, if you don't understand the ergonomics of the guitar, how it is build and how to use it in our favour, knowing all the notes on the guitar can be quite overwhelming.

In this lesson I'll show you the most simple and logical way to finally know all the notes on the fretboard of your guitar.

Well, you don't need more music theory, right? For that reason, I will also show you how you can start implementing the concept of the CAGED System into your playing right away.

Thomas D.

If you are stuck in your playing when it comes to blues, then these two notes will help you FOR SURE!

A lot of us get stuck in our own ways to do things. Many times, a little help is all we need to get ahead. And what is more surprising is that, once you get ahead, you notice that you were just a few steps from breaking through.

Here you'll see two little notes that, if used with wisdom and craftiness, can make your soloing over blues much more interesting and, of course, more BLUESY!

Are you stuck with the pentatonic scale? Would you like to solo in more than just one position of your fretboard?

Well, we all are at some point, so you're not alone there! I'm sure this will help you! In this video you will learn how to solo over 12 Bar Blues using the Pentatonic Scale Shape #1/E (and its octave) and Shape #4/A. 

You will learn how to use the Pentatonic scale in three different areas of your fretboard!

Being able to solo and improv over blues is one of the most desirable and fun things a guitarist can do! In the same time that it will be one of the first things you will learn as an early guitar students, it will also be one of the last things you will master! It can either be so nice and simple, or it can get sophisticated and jazzy!