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Welcome to my website where you can find out more information about me and my teaching.  I teach students all over the world via my online school and Skype, and have a growing collection of over 250 free guitar lessons on my YouTube channel and I'm regularly uploading guitar related content to my Instagram feed.

If you like my style of teaching you’re definitely going to want to check out my first premium online course ‘Guitar Rut Busters: Essential Theory’.

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Hands up all the Tom Misch fans 🙌 I’ve just discovered him thanks to @gafar312 recommending him a couple of posts back. I had a few listens to his album ‘Geography’ today and it’s all great. ‘Man Like You’ instantly stood out as something I wanted to learn. It’s a cover of a song by Patrick Watson (not Patrick Wilson d’oh) and it’s beautiful. I’ve been transcribing it to bring a song lesson to my YouTube channel. I was too impatient to get onto Guitar Pro so ended up old-school-ing it on the ol’ pen and paper to write down those ending chords. I went through these a little more on my IGTV. Go and watch that and listen to his album. It’s my first entry in my ‘Listening Club’ that I’ll be posting in my story and highlights - music I’ve been enjoying that I think you will too. 🙏🏻
Who else loves the clashing half step? Beautiful. Was working this into a chord progression tonight that I’ll probably be sharing with you tomorrow but, for now, here’s a gorgeous Badd11 for your listening pleasure. Hit me with a comment or a 🙏🏻 below if you’re with me 👍🏻👊🏻
What do you want to see more of from the feed in 2019? Let us know 👇🏻 in the comments. Here are my ten most popular posts of 2018. It’s been a huge year for me: moving to the south of France, releasing my first course, getting to (nearly) 30K followers on Instagram and 25K subs on YouTube. It blows my mind! I want to thank you all for being here and sharing this adventure with me. I want to do so much more and, with your help, we’re going to make 2019 another awesome year. Thanks for all your messages of support and comments. It really means a lot to know that what I do here is helping people 🙏🏻👍🏻👊🏻
Spotify users, who topped your 2018 Wrapped ‘Top Artists’ list? I had The Beatles, Ghost, Fleetwood Mac, Queen and The Rolling Stones. Sums me up pretty well!
Which version is better? Dylan or The Byrds? Let us know in the comments. A great progression here courtesy of Mr Dylan that finds us in some sort of major scale/mixolydian hybrid key. Sounds very cool. Hit me with a comment or a 🙏🏻 below if you’re digging it 👍🏻👊🏻
Sign up now for my FREE eBook teaching you everything you need to know to master the fretboard and have the notes down cold! For everyone that’s already got their copy, what was the most useful takeaway? Comment below and let us know 👍🏻🙏🏻
What is your favourite song by ‘The Smashing Pumpkins’? 1979 has to be one of them for me, it has a great guitar line and some cool chord grips incorporating the open high strings. I learnt this song for the first time though today after YouTube’s algorithm randomly suggested a live performance by Billy Corgan on Howard Stern (I think after watching a load of 1975 videos!) Hit me with a comment or a 🙏🏻 below if you like the new chord/progression post design. Thanks 👍🏻👊🏻
A new Chord of the Day™️ inspired by my song lesson on ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ by Mariah Carey. There are several ways to ‘jazz up’ the dominant 7th chord, and this is one of them. Definitely get this one into your chord bank. Hit me with a comment or a 🙏🏻 below if you dig it!
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Swipe through to learn your A-Shape minor patterns and hit me with a comment or a 🙏🏻 below if you dig it! We’re continuing the CAGED Clarity series, building up from the 5-3 octave shape. Get more on mastering the fretboard with my eBook…(ahem)…Fretboard Mastery…link in bio. You can leave any questions below, and practise well 🙏🏻👍🏻
Another Progression of the Day™️ courtesy of Pink Floyd. This is the main progression to their song 'Time' from 'The Dark Side of The Moon'. A great one to loop for your improvisation practice. Minor pentatonic or the natural minor scale for this one. Can you name me any other songs that use this same sequence of chords? 👍🏻🙏🏻 ⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #guitar #guitarra #guitarworld #guitar🎸 #learningguitar #guitarist #guitarists #guitarstrings #guitarposts #guitarlove #guitartime #guitarstagram #guitargram #guitarteacher #chords #guitarchords #progressionoftheday #songwriter #songwriting #songwritingsession #songwritingsessions #guitarmusictheory #musictheory #musictheoryclass #musictheorylessons #music #musicians #musiclovers #makemusic #RYNGTR
Couldn’t decide on how best to name this chord. C/F is probably easiest, but then didn’t know whether the G is a 2 or a 9. Major 9th (but the 3rd is missing)? Does a maj7sus2 exist? I’ve blindly trusted Guitar Pro here. I’ll take your thoughts on this one 👇🏻 Either way, F is the Root note and it sounds awesome, so get it added to your chord bank! 👍🏻👊🏻
I am constantly adding guitar books to my Amazon wish list, being bought them for (insert gift-giving occasion here) and never reading them. Or at least never reading them like I should. I’m all in favour of buying books, but you should really try and spend time with each of them and be implementing what they contain in your practice. I’ve already written about how valuable Petrucci’s Rock Discipline was for me. That book was the first one I remember buying as an intermediate guitarist and I USED it. I was drilling the exercises in that book. It WAS my practice. Seek information, but make sure you use it. What would you recommend we check out?
Join the thousands of players upping their fretboard game with the help of my eBook, ‘Fretboard Mastery’. Still free, still awesome. Get your copy now when you sign up to my mailing list. Link in bio 🙏🏻👍🏻
Swipe through to learn your C-Shape minor patterns and drop a comment below with your thoughts on the new look. We’re continuing the CAGED Clarity series, but this time we’ve gone to the dark side! We’re going to explore the CAGED system in the minor realm. As with previous posts (which you should definitely check out!) we’re going to add notes progressively to the octave shape (which I consider the foundation of the CAGED approach) to create minor triads, minor arpeggios, minor pentatonics and 7-note diatonic scales. This is an awesome way to get loads of information into your brain and fingers. You can leave any questions below, and practise well 🙏🏻👍🏻
How many did you know? Share👇🏻 We commonly start with learning the chord grips rooted on string 6(E) and 5(A), but did you know the rest? The CAGED approach is one of the best ways to be visualising and learning your chord shapes. Largely because it allows you to see arpeggios, pentatonics and diatonic scales ‘underneath’ a chord shape. Here are 6 ways to play a minor 7th chord (R-b3-5-b7). Share with a loved one with a tag in the comments👇🏻👍🏻🙏🏻
Any @laribasilio fans? I definitely am! Not a chord shape I had really come across until I was transcribing some pf her music last night. She’s brilliant. Go and check her out. This is a simple yet effective substitution for an open E major OR E minor chord. Share with a loved one with a tag 👇🏻👍🏻
Get your FREE ‘Fretboard Mastery’ eBook when you join my mailing list (link in bio). Here is part 2 of my ‘Fretboard Mastery’ series. All this and more is in the eBook (which I’m going to keep free for you guys) so head over to my website and grab your copy now 👊🏻👍🏻

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