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Jason Loughlin's Trading Solos: Americana Interactive Video Jam Session with a Top TrueFire Artist In Jason Loughlin’s Americana edition of Trading Solos you’ll jam with Jason over five popular Americana progressions, in a variety of keys and feels. Jason kicks off the course sharing some of his tone tips to help you get a great sound.

Bluenotes will teach you how to balance blue notes with chromatic, passing and neighbor tones correctly to add color, depth and richness to your phrasing. Rick Payne says, “like many guitarists, I was always confused as to what Pentatonic this and Pentatonic that meant. Guitar books varied in their interpretation of blues scales and Pentatonic, and still do. Most of us get through in the end by using our ears and not the grey stuff in between.

Essential techniques and concepts every guitar player should know Presented by 21 top TrueFire educators, TrueFire’s Indispensable Toolbox for Guitarists includes over 14 hours of video lessons, 115 Charts, 64 Jam Tracks, 78 tabs/notation and Guitar Pro files. The Toolbox is chock full of video lessons covering a wide range of essential techniques and concepts including 80 essential chord voicings, extensions, arpeggios, tips on reading chord charts and tab, rhythm insight, scales, fingerpicking patterns, bending, vibrato, hammer-ons, pull offs, hybrid picking, and tons of other ‘indispensable’ insight and reference material.

Most beginners believe that they need to know how to read music, understand theory, struggle through boring exercises and learn hundreds of chords to play fingerstyle guitar. NOT SO! Guitar is the most popular instrument on the planet because it's the easiest instrument to learn how to play.

For many musicians, going out to the local jam and playing with friends is their primary, if not only musical outlet. The goal of Andy Aledort’s Jam Night series is to broaden your skills as both a rhythm guitarist and soloist, with specific instruction directed within the scope of standard, tried-and-true open jam night songs.

Keep one hand on the mouse and place the palm of the other directly on your monitor screen. TrueFire's new palmistry technology will reveal your inner-most feelings and reveal your future…

An Interactive Video Master Class from Pat Martino Pat Martino's music, mastery of the fretboard, and enlightening improvisational concepts have inspired musicians since the early 60's when he first took to the bandstand as a teenager. Fifty-plus years later Pat is considered one of the most influential guitarists walking the planet today.

Flavor Your Solos with Creative Modal Approaches One of the most requested topics I've had in my 20 some years of teaching guitar has been modes. A lot of information can be found on modes, but let's face it — they can still be confusing! I put together this course together to demystify modes for you and clear up all of the confusion.

Monstrous licks, techniques and concepts for the modern rock guitarist The human eye can only process 10 to 12 separate images per second. That's why some sights can only be fully appreciated in slow motion like that viral close-up video of an eagle flying towards the viewer – incredible harmony of motion. How 'fast' we process sound, specifically music, is a different matter all together. Over time, your ear can be trained to hear, process and appreciate the underlying harmony and nuances of music performed at blazingly-fast speeds while the untrained ear will only hear blazingly-fast note sequences.

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again… killer rhythm chops gets you the gig every single time. Players with blazing lead chops are a dime a dozen today and most of them skipped all their rhythm classes to develop those chops. Their loss is your gain. Bandleaders, jammers, singer-songwriters, musical directors and the like will always pick the solid rhythm player over a skilled lead player.