Play Guitar Podcast
Have you been struggling with the guitar? You are not alone! For the past 30 years I have been helping beginner, intermediate, and advanced guitarists get out of the guitar rut and find their voice on the guitar. These FREE, FUN, and EASY guitar lessons give you the right mindset for guitar success, and keep you moving forward on the guitar. No matter if you are just starting out or have been playing for years, this is the show that will help you become the guitarist that you always wanted to be! For more lessons, or to just stop by and say hi, come on over to www.playguitarpodcast.com.
Episodes
If you've been collecting strumming patterns but still struggle to play in time, the problem may be that you don't understand when to strum. Learn how to break down a measure using whole, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes so you can stop guessing and start playing rhythms with confidence.
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If you know your guitar chords but struggle to switch between them smoothly, this circle of fourths exercise will help you eliminate hesitation and unnecessary finger movement. Learn how to prepare for each chord change, develop efficient movements, and build confidence using a simple two-measure progression through all 12 keys.
▶▶ Get my FREE Guide to Clear Sounding Chords and learn how to eliminate buzzing strings and muted ...
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If you've been playing guitar for years but still struggle with clean, consistent chords, this simple two-chord exercise can help you break old habits and start making progress. Learn how to use descending arpeggios to hear problem notes, make small adjustments, and improve your cho...
If your fretted notes buzz, choke out, or just don't sound as clean as they should, the problem may be hiding in the details of your technique. In this lesson, we'll use a simple backwards spider exercise to improve finger placement, reduce excess pressure and tension, and train your ears to catch problems before they become habits.
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Octaves are one of the easiest ways to unlock the fretboard and start seeing how notes connect across the neck. In this lesson, I'll walk you through 3 easy octave exercises to help you find notes faster, get more mileage out of your licks, and add new texture to your playing.
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The same note can be played on different guitar strings, but each location gives you a different sound and a new way to move around the fretboard. In this episode, we'll explore how the strings overlap and use three exercises to find shared notes, connect scale patterns, and play the same melody in different locations.
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Most guitar players know the notes repeat after the 12th fret, but knowing it and actually using it are two different things. In this lesson, you'll use this overlooked fretboard trick with technique, scales, and arpeggios to make playing above the 12th fret easier.
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Learn three easy chromatic exercises that move across the guitar fretboard in completely different ways. Practice them slowly while saying the notes out loud to work on your technique, ear training, and fretboard mastery at the same time.
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Finding the notes on your guitar fretboard doesn't have to mean memorizing every fret one at a time. In this lesson, I'll show you how to use the musical alphabet to find the natural notes on the fretboard, then use those notes to help you find the sharps and flats around them.
Want to go deeper? Read my complete guide to learning the notes on the guitar fretboard.
https://www.playguitaracademy.com/blog/how-do-i-learn-guitar-no...
Pentatonic scales may be simple, but those five notes can give you a lifetime of musical possibilities. In this episode, we'll explore how pentatonic patterns open up across the fretboard and become more useful as your playing grows.
▶▶ Ready to explore beyond one pentatonic pattern? Get my free Big Four Scale Pattern Worksheet and start connecting the pentatonic scale across the fretboard. https://www.playguitaracademy....
Guitar scales can look like an endless collection of patterns, keys, and sounds to learn. In this episode, you'll discover how much of that knowledge is connected—and why the scale work you're doing now can take you much farther than you think.
▶▶ See how much of the work is already connected. Get my free Big Four Scale Pattern Worksheet and compare the five patterns for Major, Natural Minor, Major Pentatonic, and Minor ...
The guitar fretboard gets much easier to understand when the things you've learned start connecting. In this episode, I'll show you how patterns, landmarks, and relationships can turn a confusing collection of frets into one connected map.
▶▶ Ready to start building your own fretboard map? Get my free Big Four Scale Pattern Worksheet with all five patterns for Major, Natural Minor, Major Pentatonic, and Minor Pent...
The Five Pattern Scale System helps you stop seeing isolated scale shapes and start seeing one connected fretboard. In this episode, I'll explain why I recommend learning all five patterns and how they create the foundation for improvisation, intervals, arpeggios, CAGED, and so much more.
Ready to connect the entire fretboard? Check out the Blues Elevation Toolkit, where I'll guide you step by step through the com...
For over 35 years I've watched guitar education evolve through private lessons, books, VHS tapes, DVDs, websites, YouTube, memberships, apps, and now AI.
Information has never been easier to access.
So why are so many guitar players still asking the same question...
"What should I practice today?"
In this episode I share why I believe guitar learning is entering a new era, why information alone isn't enough anymor...
Many guitarists believe better solos come from learning more scales, but great improvisation often starts somewhere else entirely. In this episode, we'll explore why the melody may be the most overlooked tool for creating solos that sound musical, memorable, and connected to the song.
Discover how to use melody to create expressive blues solos with Blues Solo Breakthrough: https://www.playguitaracademy.com/bluessolobreakthroug...
Many guitarists spend years learning new chords while overlooking the habits that actually make chords sound clean, confident, and musical. In this episode, we'll explore the three biggest reasons your chords aren't sounding their best and what you can do to fix them.
Download the Guide to Clear Sounding Chords and learn the simple adjustments that make every chord cleaner, clearer, and easier to play.
https://www.playguit...
Most guitarists spend years practicing scales without seeing meaningful improvement because they're focusing on patterns instead of sounds. In this episode, we'll explore why scale practice often fails and how a few simple changes can transform it into a tool for ear training, phrasing, and real musical growth.
Download Blues Solo Breakthrough and get the backing tracks, scale diagrams, and complete practice system that goes w...
Most blues players don't struggle because they lack licks, they struggle because they don't know how to develop ideas over time. In this episode we'll explore how great blues players create longer solos by connecting, expanding, and evolving simple musical phrases.
Download the Blues Elevation Toolkit and learn how to connect your ideas into expressive solos that sound musical instead of repetitive: https://www.playguitaracade...
Most guitar players think better solos come from learning more licks. In reality, one of the biggest differences between average players and great blues players is their ability to leave space.
In this episode, Lee demonstrates three simple blues phrases that become dramatically more expressive when strategic rests are added. You'll learn how silence creates anticipation, highlights important target notes, and helps your solos soun...
Ready to make your blues solos sound more intentional and musical?
Download the Blues Elevation Toolkit and learn how to target the notes that matter most in your solos:
https://www.playguitaracademy.com/blues-elevation-toolkit
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Most guitar players believe that sounding better means playing more notes. More scales. More licks. More complexity.
But many of the greatest blues players do the exact opposite.
In this episode, Lee...
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