Seattle Guitar Lessons

Today I’m bringing you a lesson using the strat. I go over the short, yet sweet solo to this John Mayer track. Lots of bending and sliding creating a very good workout for the left hand, and can add a few licks to the arsenal.

A student recently wanted to learn this song so I looked it up. It’s a surprisingly simple song, yet the fingerpicking method used (it’s sort of like a “claw” with the right hand) can take a while to get down if you’re not used to playing that kind of thing.

Norwegian Wood is a great song to learn if you want to go beyond just simple strumming and add some other notes. I also show you how to embellish the song a bit with a few extra hammer-ons and pull-offs, which help strengthen the left hand.

In this video I show you the chords to “No Such Thing”. There are some difficult chord shapes, and John tends to use his thumb to fret the bass notes in many of the chords.

I teach you the chords to “Girl”.

Here is an awesome song off the album Rubber Soul.  This song sounds great at a fast pace, or slow pace.  It uses the basic open chord shapes and playing this song is an enjoyable way to get better at those chord shapes, strengthen you hand, etc.

Here’s another guitar lesson/tutorial where I teach you how to play Better Together.

If you can already play basic chords, this is a fun song to get in your repertoire.