Learn to Play

Switching between guitar chords is difficult for many beginning guitar players. Angela Petrilli shows how to use pivot points to make it easier!

Angela Petrilli shows how to upgrade your playing with hybrid picking. This is a great way to easily add different colors and tones to your sound!

Angela Petrilli shows how to alternate pick your guitar easily. This skill is an essential trick to playing guitar smoothly!

Angela Petrilli gives some great tips on how to strum acoustic or electric guitar smoothly and in the “pocket”, with simple examples that guitar players at any level can use!

Add to your blues! This easy “walk-up” and “turnaround” quickly enhances the 12-bar blues shuffle in E. Danielle Miraglia shows us how to apply these two licks to the 12-bar pattern. Both are simple, fun, and essential building blocks for beginners playing the blues.

Play an easy blues lick! Danielle teaches the basic E minor pentatonic blues scale, and then she shows how to use it to play a classic blues lick. Essential and fun, this scale is perfect for beginners.

Play a Blues Shuffle! This easy 12-bar blues in A is essential to know, and fun to play. Danielle Miraglia breaks it down simply so you’ll be playing the blues in no time!

2021 “Blues Act of the Year” Danielle Miraglia shows the basics of fingerstyle guitar playing with this simple right-hand pattern that is perfect for beginners. Using this simple technique you can make one guitar sound like two!

With the “pinchie” technique, 2021 “Blues Act of the Year” Danielle Miraglia shows you how to take a simple fingerstyle picking pattern to the next level. This trick is a great way to easily add accented beats to your fingerpicking.

Play Harry Styles’ “Watermelon Sugar” with this funky fingerpicking trick! You can apply Danielle’s easy “thumb, pluck, slap” technique to give a new, funky fingerstyle feel to many pop or cover songs you already know how to play.