First Finger Pinky Rule on Guitar
This is the easiest way to remember how to switch from Major Pentatonic to Minor Pentatonic and back again. The amazing thing about this...
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Blue Morris
- May 20
Breakthrough Phrasing Skills
Learn these two simple rules to massively improve phrasing in your guitar solos: Rhythmic Targets
and Harmonic Targets
Blue Morris
- May 13
What's Missing from Minor Pentatonic?
The minor pentatonic scale is only five notes, which means that there are two notes missing. And one of those notes is the sweetest note...
Blue Morris
- Apr 29
Unlock Chord-Scale Connections
Combining chords and scales on the guitar is something that so many guitar students ask me about in their lessons with me here in...
Blue Morris
- Apr 7
My Top 10 Favourite Guitar Licks
By popular request, here is my latest YouTube video covering my favourite licks. These licks can be easily moved to other keys and other...
Blue Morris
- Mar 31
Never Get Lost on the Fretboard Again
Do you ever find yourself feeling lost on the fretboard, sometimes just when you thought you had it all down? My latest Youtube video...
Blue Morris
- Mar 25
The Most Beautiful Guitar Chord?
What is the most beautiful guitar chord in your opinion? I'd say it's the Major-7. It's fairly simple, but still very rich. And it's used...
Blue Morris
- Mar 18
Jimi Hendrix Style Hammer On's
Are there any easy Jimi Hendrix licks? If you know your basic minor pentatonic shape and how to play a hammer on, you can likely play...
Blue Morris
- Mar 11
The Hidden Blue Note?
Over all the years that I have been playing guitar, and teaching guitar, I have studied so many classic rock, blues, and country guitar...
Blue Morris
- Mar 4
David Gilmour Guitar Solo Arpeggios
I have learned so much from listening to Pink Floyd and David Gilmour over the years. His solos are some of my favourites of all time....
Blue Morris
- Feb 18
Acoustic Blues Chord-Solo Lesson
Are you getting tired of playing the 12-bar blues in the same way every time? Do you want to be able to put licks, riffs, walks, and...
Blue Morris
- Feb 10
Small Trick, Big Effect! Improve your guitar playing fast
Sometimes the smallest little change you make in your guitar playing can make the biggest difference. As some of my guitar students here...
Blue Morris
- Jan 9
Fly Up the Guitar Fretboard
A common question I get here in my guitar lessons in Vancouver is: How can I play longer lines that move from low on the guitar to high...
Blue Morris
- Nov 26, 2022
Stop Playing this Guitar Lick! (Do this instead...)
These are the tabs from the beginning of my "Stop Playing this Lick" video, features just a handful of examples of how common it is to...
Blue Morris
- Oct 20, 2022
The best one-chord song of all time?
When we talk about songwriting, a lot of the time we are talking about great chord changes. What chords go in what key, what chord...
Blue Morris
- Oct 15, 2022
The Beatles "Something" Guitar Solo Lesson
My latest Youtube video is in a "guitar lessons live" format in which I analyze the guitar solo to the Beatles song "Something," as...
Blue Morris
- Sep 29, 2022
Bohemian Rhapsody Guitar Solo Lesson
Now that the summer festival tours are over I'm back to creating some more guitar lesson videos on my Youtube channel. My latest video is...
Blue Morris
- May 14, 2022
"Paranoid" Guitar Solo (Black Sabbath)
One of my favourite solos to teach my guitar students here in Vancouver is Tommy Iommi's solo in "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath. It's a...
Blue Morris
- Apr 3, 2022
Flatpicking Friday
Improve your guitar picking technique with this one exercise. Based on my Youtube video from my Guitar Lessons Vancouver channel, below...
Blue Morris
- Mar 19, 2022
Get Back Solo by John Lennon / Beatles
When I watched the "Get Back" documentary that everyone has been talking about, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that John Lennon...
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