Author: Ged Brockie

Live Lesson: Arranging Ideas For Streets of London
An in-depth tutorial which covers the chords used to play Streets of London, how the chords are created, using inversions and finally, playing a chord melody arrangement.

Live Lesson: Creating A Jazz Chord Melody Arrangement
Deep dive into arranging a jazz standard for guitar using only a lead sheet of the melody and chords.

Learning To Tap On Guitar
Learning to tap on guitar is a must know for a wide range of guitar styles, not just shred. Acclaimed guitarist and author of the GMI publication “Tapping Discovered” Honza Kourimsky has put together a wonderful in-depth technical lesson for guitarists looking to learn how to tap on guitar.

The Chromatic Scale
The Chromatic scale is the foundation of all chords, scales & arpeggios. It’s a wonderful tool for helping your picking technique, adjacent string playing and for use in improvisation.

Seven Melodic Minor Scale Patterns
Learn seven positions of melodic minor scales giving complete coverage of the neck that are extensively used in rock, jazz and classical music.

Boss DD-5
The Boss DD5 is a stalwart of digital delay. In this lesson, you’ll discover how digital delay came about and how it superseded the analog ways of doing things and how it improved on previous methods. You’ll also see Gary Clinton demonstrate the full range of controls and how to get the most from this guitar pedal.

Blues Scales in 5 Positions
The Blues scale is as popular today as it’s ever been. This lesson shows how you can extend all your Pentatonic Scales into Blues scales across the neck. This lesson pulls together theoretical and pattern concepts explained in the “pentatonic scales” lesson.

Akai Headrush
The Akai Headrush is one amazing looper guitar pedal but it’s so much more than that. This video by GMI instructor Gary Clinton gives you an in-depth insight into the workings of the Akai pedal which is used by pro musicians around the world.

Fingerstyle Guitar Pull-offs, Hammer-ons, slurs
James Akers discusses how to correctly play chords using the right hand fingers and then performs a piece from his book Guitar Exam Exercise Book which helps perfect this technique.