Jon Maclennan

How To Play Guitar Lick with Hexatonic Scale

Hey, how’s it going this is Jon McLennan with Guitar Control, excited to bring you this lesson. In our previous lesson we discussed something called the hexatonic scale and I showed you how to take a major scale, you remove the 4th step and you get the G major hexatonic. And now what I’m going

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Blues Guitar Lessons

How To Play Blues Intros in the Style of Eric Clapton

Hey, how’s it going, this is Jon McLennan with Guitar Control, today’s topicis Blues Intros. This is something that I picked up from Eric Clapton, but it’s been played by thousands and thousands of blues artist and it’s a piece of the language. So you’re going to practice this and right away if I pick

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Blues Guitar Lessons

Great Guitar Lick for Starting a Blues Solo

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this lesson. I want to show you a great way of starting off a blues tune. This can be a blues intro, and it’s just a common lick that you’ll hear anybody from Stevie Ray Vaughn, BB King to Charlie

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Chords

Learn How to Harmonize a Major Scale On Guitar

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennanand here with guitarcontrol.com,bringing you this video blog. What I wantto show you today is how to harmonize amajor scale in 6ths. This is such a cool sound, something youhear guitar players play all the time andcan be really, really great to know this.So be sure to click

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Chords

How to Play Triads in A Minor On Guitar – Part 2

Hi. I’m John McClennan and I’m bringing this lesson for guitarcontrol.com. I want to show you some great triad voicings on the lower strings. So we’re in the key of A minor and let’s just start out with three different positions on the guitar for an A minor. Remember, what a triad is, is just

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Chords

How to Play Triads in A Minor On Guitar

How’s it going, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. I want to show you three positions of playing an A minor triad. You take your basic chord that you may know as A minor, like this, and then we’re going to invert it, meaning going up

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Chords

How to Play Chord Triads on Guitar – Part 4

What’s happening, guys? This is John McClennan here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video lesson. What we’re looking at right now is triad voicings on the upper three strings. These are going to be minor chords. Basically we’re going to start here with an A minor. If you thought of your A minor chord that

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Chords

How to Play Chord Triads on Guitar – Part 2

Hi. I’m John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this lesson. Again, we’re just expanding and expanding. The more chords that we know, the better. And here we’re moving those same triad voicings to the lower strings now. So our A is going to be right here on the 5th fret, 4th fret,

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Chords

How to Play Chord Triads on Guitar – Part 1

Hey, what’s happening, guys? This is John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, excited to bring you some great lessons here on basic triad voicings. What a triad is, is a three-note chord. We’re going to start with just an A on the high string. It’s going to go 2nd fret, 2nd fret and then

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Chords

How to Practice The CAGED Chords With The Song Hey Joe

How’s it going? I’m John McClennan and I’m here with guitarcontrol.com, bringing you this video blog. We just went over in our previous lesson what I call the caged chords. And those are C, A, G, E and D. And from that you get the word CAGED. You want to make sure you know all

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