Max Rich

Are you frustrated with your bar chords? Are you unable to play an entire song because your hand hurts while playing them? If you're getting dead notes and you're unable to cleanly play bar chords for as long as you want, it's not because you're a bad guitarist, it's just because you're using the wrong technique!
Learning how to apply leverage instead of strength is the key...make this one small change in your hand position and bar chords will become effortless and fun to play!

In order to use a scale to solo, improvise and songwrite you really have to have that scale mastered. That means being able to play it forward, backward, inside and out in every position on the neck. That can seem really daunting, but follow these simple steps and you'll be able to become a master of any scale you want in a very short time!

Do you ever have trouble landing all your fingers at the same time when making a chord?

Regardless of your current level, if you aren’t landing every single chord perfectly, there is a reason…and that reason (probably) is that you are staggering your fingers when landing.

In order to practice effectively and create exercises that turn your flaws into strengths, it's vital that you understand how your hands, muscles, and tendons all work together to allow you to play guitar.

By learning the inner workings of your hands you can more effectively target specific fast/slow twitch muscles and pin point problem areas immediately. Want your playing to develop at light speed? Then you must understand you hands.

The Harmonic Minor scale is one of the most recognizable and exotic sounding scales in music. Ranging from gypsy jazz, to neo-classical shred, flamenco, Latin rock and many more styles of music, the Harmonic Minor scale is a tool you definitely want in your bag!

Chord symbols can tell you so much more than just what chord to play. From a simple chord symbol you can learn what scales correspond directly to the chord and what scales you can use to solo, improvise or write melodies. No matter how complex the chord, there is a scale that you can learn to immediately associate with it...it's actually a very simple process!

Most guitarists have heard of modes, and some may even know what they are...but do you? 
And can you really use them fluently? If not, this lesson will open your eyes to endless possibilities and the myriad new scales you could be using for solos and songwriting!

If you’re a songwriter, improviser or just a player who wants to find more creative chord progressions, then learning The Circle of Fourths, the “Jazz Progression” and mastering your ii-V-I’s are going to be some of the greatest tools in your arsenal. Combine all of those into one idea and you've got one of the best exercise a guitarist can learn!