I recently published the fourth tutorial in a series on harmony lead guitar parts. I show how to harmonize major scales & melodies, as well as minor scales & melodies. I cover the basic types of contrapuntal motion: similar, oblique and contrary. As usual there are lots of backing tracks in order to get hands on experience playing along with the various parts and doing it yourself!

This video is an example of what I’m teaching in these tutorials. I did this as a demo when I was planning the tutorial.

You can find all four tutorials in the series at Guitar Tricks! Enjoy!

Harmony Guitar Series 1 Part 1
Harmony Guitar Series 1 Part 2
Harmony Guitar Series 2 Part 1
Harmony Guitar Series 2 Part 2

I’ve had several conversations recently related to arpeggios, triads, inversions, scale harmonization, various practical uses for all of those. So I did a quick vid about it for fun! Enjoy!

I recently finished filming a tutorial on this piece.  So, while it was fresh in mind & fingers I recorded another performance to post on my YouTube channel.

I plan on publishing the complete tutorial on Guitartricks.com later this year.  So far this year I’ve published HD reshoots of all my beginner classical material including: an introduction to the style, proper posture & technique, left hand technique overview, right hand technique overview, single string sight reading exercises, simple melodies & a beginner Sor study piece.

This is a link to my GuitarTricks.com instructor page.

Guitar Tricks lesson catalog

Go learn how to play classical guitar style!

Symphony 2 in E Minor “Viking” is now available on iTunes. It features another gorgeous cover design by my Viking Artist friend Klaus Nordby.

Viking Symphony on iTunes

It’s also available on Spotify.

Enjoy!

I took a break from practicing, recording & teaching classical guitar material to have some summer fun.

Here’s a tune I wrote years ago and finally recorded.

And here are a couple of demos I did for FX pedals that my cousin built!

Finally, I also did some demo mini tunes featuring his custom built FX pedals! Enjoy!

The Billy Booster for Blues.

The MXR Micro Amp with tone control for pushing a humbucker over the top.

The DOD 250 for a nice thick overdriven Strat tone.

Here’s my arrangement of Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” for classical guitar.

Here’s my tutorial on Guitar Tricks that will teach you to play it!

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=1955

Enjoy!

I shot two versions of this tune for fun. Here’s the first.

Here’s the alternate take. Same tune, different day.

In other news HD reshoots of GT classical tutorials continue! I’ve recently published these from the classical absolute beginner curriculum.

Classical Guitar Style: An Introduction

How To Hold The Classical Guitar

Classical Guitar: Left Hand Basics

Happy springtime & enjoy!

Guitar Tricks is the online lesson site at which Christopher Schlegel teaches guitar!

Learn Guitar Online

Online Guitar Lessons

I’ve just released a new album called ‘Red & White Blues’!  You can get CDs here.

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/christopherschlegel4

You can buy the whole thing or individual tracks on iTunes here.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/red-white-blues/id964994028

Here’s a video of me playing the first track.

Enjoy!

This month I published another GT tutorial on harmony guitar. This time the focus is on minor scales.

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=2014

Classical guitar practice also continues! I plan on reshooting and publishing my entire introductory classical curriculum in HD throughout 2015. Here’s a lovely, little Tarrega piece called ‘Adelita’.