Learn Guitar With Steve Stine: Level 4

Master moving between major and minor pentatonic scales over rock and roll progressions, targeting roots within a 12-bar blues rhythm, and learn to solo in both pentatonic flavors anytime.

Explore common jazz fingerings for major seventh, dominant seventh, and minor seventh chords and shell voicings, and practice simplifying chords to essential notes for blues and pop.

Lower the third a half step to convert a dominant seven to a minor seven, keeping the root and seventh, and explore the a minor seven on the sixth string.

Move your first finger back one fret to form an A minor seven on the fifth string, explore comfortable alternate fingerings while accentuating important notes in the fragment with others.

Learn to build a 12-bar blues groove using shell voicings for A7, D7, and E7, with a straightforward rhythm and a turnaround 5411.

Explore jazz style fingerings for dominant seven chords, specifically a four-note A7 voicing across the sixth and fifth strings, using root, seventh, major third, and fifth.

Learn to form a major seventh by raising the seventh a half step from the dominant seventh, using precise fret positions, including the A major seven shape around frets 12–14.

Master the minor seventh chord across four strings, a minor chord with a dominant seventh, using multiple fingerings and shapes, including a five-fret barre and a 12th-fret pattern for voicings.

Master the guitar triad conversion trick by memorizing the seven major triads and converting them to minor by flattening the third, or to diminished by flattening the third and fifth.

Develop finger strength and the synchronicity between the right hand (picking hand) and fretting hand through daily practice routines, ensuring proper coordination and stamina.

Learn alternating picking by balancing down and up strokes with a flat, non-turned pick to produce consistent attack and percussion while refining wrist and elbow motion through tempo-focused practice.

Learn fretting hand strength through targeted finger combinations (1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-3, 2-4, 3-4) using the 22nd exercise with hammer-ons and pull-offs, plus tips on alternation, timing, and warm-up.

Improve two-handed synchronization through a four-finger, alternate-picking exercise that moves up the fretboard and back down. Use a metronome, practice tracking, and focus on timing, dynamics, and seamless string transitions.

Learn to improvise or comp over a six-string or a fifth-string barre chord, regardless of key, by jamming one chord at a time to expand soloing and comping ideas.

Learn to play over a fifth string barre chord by improvising with the D major pentatonic scale, visualizing chord shapes, and outlining chords instead of relying on scales.

Learn how the blues note modifies the major pentatonic in key of A, adding the minor third to bluesify pentatonic scales, and practice focusing on one position to sound expressive.

Mimic vocal techniques to enhance guitar solos, using vibrato and dynamic range to shape phrasing, and apply those vocal 'isms' to guitar playing.

Learn vibrato by rocking the wrist to pull a note up, returning to a flat pitch on the fifth fret of the third string. Use all four fingers for stability.

Learn to blend major and minor pentatonic scales in overlapping positions to create a hybrid blues-rock sound, using the minor-major twist for fluid switching between scales.

Explore how modes derive from the major scale by emphasizing different degrees, from Ionian to Locrian, with practical examples using C major and its chords.

Explore the G Ionian mode as part of learn guitar with Steve Stine: level 4.

Master the dorian mode on guitar, exploring its distinctive sound and practical applications for riffs, melodies, and improvisation.

Master the b Phrygian mode in the learn guitar with Steve Stine level 4 course.

Explore the C Lydian mode on guitar with Steve Stine in level 4, building fundamentals and technique for expressive playing.

Master the D Mixolydian on guitar, building scale fluency and phrasing in level 4 with Steve Stine.

Explore the E Aeolian on guitar with Steve Stine and build level 4 skills within this Learn Guitar course.