Intermediate and Advanced Guitar Lessons

This page provides links to articles and lessons written for intermediate to advanced guitarists. 

Guitar Modes Explained

This is currently a feature lesson on this site. Guitar Modes Explained is a comprehensive guide to understanding and playing modes on the guitar.

Chord Construction on Guitar

What are chords? How are the constructed? What do the different names mean? This article sheds some light on the concept.

Complete Guide to Major Scales

This article provides links to major scales in every key and every position on the guitar.

Scales and Patterns

Using patterns is a great way to master scales. This post demonstrates the use of a pattern within a scale and provides examples.

Functional Harmony

This lesson looks at functional harmony and the relationship between chords and modes.

How To Use Guitar Modes

Understanding and playing modes confidently is a big challenge. Using them in a musical situation is another challenge altogether. This lesson looks at how to use the appropriate mode over chord progressions.