Acoustic lesson techniques and licks in the style of the Rascal Flats – 10:25 min

In this lesson Dave Nassie teaches some fun and easy acoustic guitar techniques and licks in the style of the Rascal Flats. Dave takes a popular song and uses it an inspiration to teach about chords and melody. So much you can learn by looking at style wise what goes into a given song. Dave first goes over the chords he will play throughout the lesson. He plays an F#m7 in an interesting way with his thumb and then an interesting voicing for a C#m7 chord. He also plays a Bm7 chord. He then teaches how to add melodies within the chords. Its so important to learn different voicings for chords as they will give you different palettes of sounds as well as some make it easier to transition to the next chord. Dave then shows how to add embellishments within the chords with hammer ons and slides and other techniques like adding licks with notes from the pentatonic scale. Go through the progression and try some of these techniques and then use them to inspire you to come up with your own ideas and progressions you can create yourself – get creative and enjoy this lesson. 

Chord embellishing on an electric guitar inspired by an Ed Sheeran acoustic song – 5:39 min

In this lesson Dave Nassie was inspired by an acoustic song by popular artist Ed Sheeran. He then drew inspiration from the acoustic and put it on the electric and spins out a lesson on chordal embellishments on electric guitar – interesting for sure! Dave teaches embellishing chords in different ways to get unique sounds. Dave starts off teaching an E type power chord and how to add notes to it to create melody. Then going to a C type chord he teaches ways to embellish that chord. So start thinking melody and notes around the area of a given chord. Try different notes and techniques as per the lesson and find what sounds pleasing to your ear – let your ear guide you. Dave adds natural harmonics on that C chord with his pinky for a cool effect. Then Dave goes into a D chord and adds some cool doublestops. Then a different voicing when back to the Em chord. So you see how Dave changes up the chord voicing or embellishments each time around. Use this lesson as a template to examine other chords and progressions you are working on and think outside the box and embellish – add these to your playing arsenal and keep up all that hard work on that guitar. Rock on!

Learn EZ chord melody building with rhythms – build progressions! – 8:04 min

Chord melody made easy by Dave Nassie. Learn how to make chord progressions and come up with some wild chord shapes. Dave teaches this lesson in the key of G. He first shows you one shape of the G major scale and also teaches the notes in the scale – G major = G,A,B,C,D,E,F# – Dave then pick notes out of that scale and how to embellish these notes and chords. Basically you will learn how to come up with melodic ideas based off the notes and chords in a given key – here we use G major. Dave teaches this with very little theory so anyone can learn from this lesson and this lesson gets the creative juices flowing and gets you playing music fast. Try these ideas and chord extensions and use this lesson as a template to springboard other chord, progression and song ideas – enjoy and keep on rocking!

SPICE UP RHYTHMS by superimposing MAJOR 7th chord inversions – 10:50 min

In this lesson Dave Nassie teaches how to spice up your rhythms with lots of cool major 7th chord inversions. Here you will be moving notes around within a chord to get some cool and new sounds when playing chord inversions. Here you will take major 7th chords and superimpose with them. Dave starts the lesson with a Gmaj7 chord and he also teaches how to apply these principles and techniques to your everyday playing applications and practice. Remember a major 7 chord is made of the intervals 1,3,5,7. Enjoy and get creative with these inversions – rock on! 

Add some funky touches to your blues rhythms – spice it up 14:21 min

IN this lesson Dave Nassie teaches how to spice up your blues rhythms with some funky touches. Remember that you want to push yourself and not play the same things all the time. Venture into uncharted territories. In this lesson Dave will teach you how to spice up your rhythms by adding new chord voicings, doublestop licks, adding low bass notes with the thumb, adding cool licks into the rhythms, adding bends, hammer on licks, chord inversions, and more. YOu will also learn some cool progressions and song writing ideas. ENjoy and keep on rocking!

Adding rhythmic spice to your BLUES playing – 10:28 min

In this lesson Dave Nassie teaches how to go about adding some rhythmic spice and variation to your blues playing. This will open some new doors and teach you some new ways to address those old tired worn out blues progressions. Here Dave adds some licks into the rhythms while keeping the rhythm tight and in the pocket. Dave teaches some cool rhythmic devices in the key of E minor using various shapes of the E minor pentatonic scale. Learn the scales, licks, and rhythms while trying these new rhythmic devices – have fun and get creative with these techniques.  

Dominant chord constructing and substituting chords to spice up your rhythms – 12:46 min   

In this lesson dave Nassie teaches some chord substituting or comping. This is a device to spice up your progressions and put a new spin on them. Here we teach in a very jazzy type feel but these principles can be crossed over to other genres of music. Dave starts with a basic progression in the key of C and teaches how to make any chord a dominant chord. Dave makes chords from all the chords in the key of C major and teaches how to alter them with some music theory thrown in to boot. Get creative with these new voicings and utilize them in your progressions.