Complete song! Let’s play all of Blackbird, with a singer! As I speak about in the video lesson, there’s a great trick here when it comes to playing this...
G Major scale – G shapes! Let’s play that major scale in 3rds again, this time in the G shape. We do it both from fret 15, as well as in the open position...
7 Loops – 84 BPM! Let’s play Blackbird in small sections of just a few bars each again, this time, 10 BPM faster! Below you find all that TAB again. Nothing has changed...
G Major scale – C and A shapes! Let’s head back to our major scale and give the C and A shapes the same treatment we did to the E and D shapes in step 1...
7 Loops – 74 BPM! Let’s play Blackbird in small sections of just a few bars each. By starting off this slowly and sticking to it you’ll build great...
G major scale in 3rds + All chords! Before we start practicing the different sections of Blackbird, let’s practice the major scale using our fingers. We start with...
Let’s keep this short and sweet! Normally, step 8 is the finale, where it gets really complicated, not so here! It’s very dangerous territory to learn these...
How to Tritone Substitute! Let’s talk about the king of substitutions – The tritone substitution. Here’s how it works: The purpose of a tritone substitution is to...
X chords to the next level! Another, very common variation we can make to our friends the Roman Numerals is to flatten them. In this step we discuss the bVIIx and bIIIx...
The X chords! The final piece of my understanding of chord progressions came from reading a book by John Meheegan. He described the Roman Numerals as upper case only and...