Long time professional musician, helping guitar players unlock their fretboard and achieve musical fluency.

The Student and Tutor reviewed guitar theory, including sharp keys, the Circle of Fifths, and relative majors/minors, discussing how to find chords from songs. They progressed to advanced improvisation techniques like double stops and detailed chord spelling for major, minor, and 7th chords. The session concluded with an in-depth exploration of blues improvisation, specifically regarding scale choices over dominant 7th chords, and homework was assigned to listen to and transcribe blues guitar solos from Freddy King and Albert King.

The Tutor and Student reviewed music theory concepts including diatonic chord relationships, scale construction, and chord qualities (major 7, minor 7, dominant 7). They practiced ear training through playing chord progressions and applied scalar sequences to pentatonic scales, including a call-and-response exercise. Homework involves creating short chord progressions in E major, practicing pentatonic sequences, and listening to Eric Johnson.

Student and Tutor covered guitar scales, chord theory, and improvisation techniques, including how CAGED positions relate to pentatonics and cowboy chords. They discussed creating tension and release in solos, harmonic analysis, and the importance of 2-5-1 progressions for ear training. For homework, the Student will practice the C major scale with 2-5-1 backing tracks, sing bass lines and solos, and listen to 'Snarky Puppy Lingus'.