Improve Your Electric Guitar Playing

Welcome

Craig BassettThanks for stopping by my website. My name is Craig and I help electric guitarists improve their guitar playing.

This website will help you if you’d like to…

  • Improve your knowledge of the guitar fretboard.
  • Develop your guitar technique to a higher level.
  • Improvise guitar solos with more freedom and creativity.
  • Improve your ability to play with better timing.
  • Gain a better understanding of practical music theory.
  • Expand your guitar soloing vocabulary.

If this sounds like you, then it’s worth taking the time to explore this website. You can get started right now by clicking on any of the links below…

Enjoy!

Check Out The Five Most Recent Guitar Lessons Below…

Understanding Ties: Part 1

In this lesson we'll be looking at another common tool used in rhythmic notation. It's called a tie and, like dots, is a way of writing notes that are of longer duration than normal. Let's take a look at an example of a tie… In this example we have a half note...

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Understanding Dotted Notes: Part 1

In this lesson we'll be taking a look at a thing called a dotted note, which is a note that has a small dot after it. Check out the image below for an example of what I mean... You can see that we have a half note followed by a small dot, so we call this a dotted half...

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Rhythm Basics: Understanding Eighth Note Triplets

Welcome back to another fun-filled lesson on rhythm. In this guitar lesson we’ll be taking a look at eighth note triplets, which is another essential note value used in a great deal of music—ignore them at your peril. 🙂 Before we get started with the eighth note...

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A Minor Pentatonic Sliding Exercise 1

In this guitar lesson we'll be looking at a fun exercise designed to... Help you improve your ability to visualise the notes of the A minor pentatonic scale on the B-string and thin E-string. Improve your ability to slide fluently with your first finger. Develop your...

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E Minor Pinky Punisher Exercise 1

In this guitar lesson we're going to be looking at a single string alternate picking exercise that will help you to… Improve the synchronisation between your fretting-hand and picking-hand. Develop your ability to use the pinky finger (i.e. fourth finger) of your...

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