Here's a hypnotic backing track for you to practice your improvising. 90 BPM, Key of C.

Play the minor pentatonic on a single string

Play the minor pentatonic in a single octave in different positions across the fretboard

Play the minor pentatonic in Positions 1-3, starting with the most common scale shape

Play the minor pentatonic in Positions 4 & 5

Learn to play a steady rhythm on one open string.

Learn to pick a steady rhythm on one open string.

A series of right-hand figures to build up basic alternate picking.

A series of right-hand figures to get your thumb and middle finger working together.

A series of right-hand figures to teach basic strum patterns.

Learn how a few basic riff patterns and palm muting with your right hand.

The basic 12 bar blues played with powerchords and a swung 8th note feel.

Move up and down the fretboard with the pentatonic scale

The basic 12 bar blues played with shell voicings. Includes a turnaround in bars 11-12.

Learn the groove from this iconic Santana tune.

A simplified version of "Don't Think Twice"—great for working on your fingerpicking.

This is a guitar groove with two voices (bassline and chord hits) played over a typical Afro-Cuban tumbao rhythm on congas.

This exercise shows how you can create passing chords by adding a diminished 7th chord to each chromatic passing tone. We go through the keys of G & C creating a chromatic walkup in the bass, going up chromatically in each of the two keys.