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Peg Steely Dan Guitar Lesson + Tutorial | MOST ACCURATE LESSON ONLINE

peg steely dan Jan 08, 2023

Peg Steely Dan Guitar Lesson + Tutorial | MOST ACCURATE LESSON ONLINE

Hey friend Jon MacLennan here and in this video I want to share with you how I play Peg as recorded by Steely Dan. Now this is a brilliant song that has one of the most common Steely Dan chords in it. I'm gonna break it all down for you step-by-step.

There's four parts but keep this in mind that these are advanced chords and this is advanced harmony, it's almost like playing a jazz standard. The brilliant part for me with Steely Dan was they were able to take all this incredible music and amazing chord changes but then write a pop song that people could just sing along with and I think that there's very few artists that could actually pull this off. Perhaps people like Stevie Wonder would be another person who could do it but let's get straight into it.

We're going to start off with the intro progression now this just a pattern it starts on a Gmaj9 and I'm playing starting on the fifth string 10, 9, 11, 10. The...

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3 Simple Arpeggios To Use To Finally Play Perfect Blues Guitar Solos

One of the things that a lot of my students have emailed me about on my website and in my programs is that when they are improvising either they're playing along with backing tracks or jamming with a band. And when they play their solos and they finish a lick, a lot of the times they feel like they're ending on a wrong note, or they're not quite landing how they would like in the musical phrase.

So in this video I want to talk about playing over a blues in the key of G and give you just some simple landing points that you can use in your solos right away.

Alright so let's get straight into it now if we're playing a blues in the key of G typically we're going to have just 3 chords as our essential blues pattern, and those chords are going to be G, C and D. 

Now in the Blues a lot of times those chords are all played as sevenths so that's going to be a G7 a C7 and a D7. Each one of those chords is actually made up of four notes. So what we're going to do is we're going to look at t...

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Discover Jimmy Page's Masterful Picking With This Babe I'm Gonna Leave You Guitar Lesson

fingerstyle Dec 17, 2022

Today’s song has an unusually long and winding history.

It’s a magical performance from a legendary band.

Now, for years I just assumed it was written by Led Zeppelin…

But I didn’t find out until much later that my assumptions were wrong.

Nonetheless… Jimmy Page’s guitar parts on it are brilliant, and I’m going to break down their cover of it step-by-step.

So tune up, and let’s dive into this “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” guitar lesson!

Who wrote Babe I'm Gonna Leave You?

"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" was actually written by Anne Bredon, a folk singer-songwriter, in the late 1950s. 

But, it was popularized by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. They recorded a well-known version of the song for their debut album (Aka Led Zeppelin 1) released in 1969.

The song is about the emotional turmoil of someone contemplating leaving a romantic relationship. The lyrics convey the internal struggle of someone who is torn between staying in a troubled relationship or finding the strength to le...

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