Example of soloing and creating phrases and melodies over simple 2-chord harmony!

The chords are Dm F Dm C G Dm, and I am adding some notes to the chords to make it sound more interesting. I hope this lesson will give you some cool ideas if you have a chord progression want to spice it up!

We'll work aspects like rhythm, scale uses, and different techniques as legato, alternate picking, Vibrato, Slides harmonics and arpeggios.

This is the place for all you beginning guitarists to get started on your journey to great guitar playing. To start off with, we are going to learn a few open chords in the key of D major.

D is a very popular guitar key with simple-to-add D embellishments such as and D sus2 (used in the outro) and Sus4 (covered later). Contains two barre chords.

Improvising over II V I chord progression in D major scale using chord tones, arpeggios, approach patterns, chromatic approach and scale approach.

Building up melodies by using exotic chord forms.

In this lesson I've tried to take a very simple melody and turned it into a relatively easy and effective solo.

Traditional Country-Folk style using Chet Atkins / Merle Travis style hybrid picking.