Andy Ellis

Interactive Audio Guitar Lessons

25 Blues Licks You Must Know, Part 1

25 Blues Licks You Must Know, Part 2

A Picker's Dozen

Acoustic Guru - Peter Huttlinger

Acoustic Guru - Peter Huttlinger: Cross-String Melodies

Altered Dominant Runs

Artful Aeolian

Back Track: Blending Arpeggios And Scales

Back Track: Dorian Grooves

Back Track: Interval Ladders

Back Track: Slash Chording

Back Track: Slash Chords

Bagpipe Bends Part 2

Bagpipe Bends, Part 1

Bending Blitzkrieg, Part 1

Bending Blitzkrieg, Part 2

Beyond The I-IV-V: How Duke Robillard Makes 12-Bar Blues Jump & Swing, Pt 1

Beyond The I-IV-V: How Duke Robillard Makes 12-Bar Blues Jump & Swing, Pt 2

Blue Notes: Funky Side Of Beatnik-Era Jazz, Part 1

Blue Notes: Funky Side Of Beatnik-Era Jazz, Part 2

Bluegrass And Beyond: Tony Rice Reveals His Secrets To Fiery Flatpicking

Blues Boomerangs: 12 Essential Turnarounds, Pt 1

Blues Boomerangs: 12 Essential Turnarounds, Pt 2

Blues Hues

Blues On Target

Blues: Hipster Moves

Bone Chillin' Blues: A Lesson With Albert Collins

Born To Boogie: An In-Depth Lesson With John Lee Hooker

Bottlefull Of Ry

Bottleneck Meltdown, Part 1

Bottleneck Meltdown, Part 2

Brian Setzer: Doing The Dirty Boogie

Bustin' Loose

Charlie Hunter's Funky Jazz Part 1

Charlie Hunter's Funky Jazz, Part 2

Chord Test Crib Sheet

Chordless Comping: Play Kick-Ass Rhythm Using Intervals, Part 2

Chordless Comping: Play Kick-Ass Rhythm W/ Intervals, Part 1

Chromatic Crazy Part 1

Chromatic Crazy Part 2

Chromatic Michael Bloomfield

Classic Cropper

Classic Ghost Riders Lick

Connecting The Dots

Contrary Blue

Cool Aid: Spike Your Solos With Jerry Garcia's Trippy Approach Tones

Country Blues Turnarounds

Country Guitar 101: Honky Tonk Sixths

Cowboy Rocketry Part 1

Cowboy Rocketry Part 2

Crafting Modal Progressions

Curtis Mayfield's Rhythm Of Magic

DADGAD, Part 1

DADGAD, Part 2

Dancing With Dorian

Danny Gatton's Hotrod Jazz

David Grissom's Big Rhythm

Decoding Open D Part 1

Decoding Open D Part 2

Dialing In Radiohead

Digging Modal Harmony

Discovering DADGAD

Doin' That Crazy Hand Jive

Eric Clapton: Eric's Essential Licks

Eric Clapton's 'Key To The Highway' Turnaround

Exploring Aeolian Changes

Extended Arpeggio Patterns

Extra Texture Part 1

Extra Texture Part 2

EZ Street - Demystifying Artificial Harmonics

EZ Street - Exploring Slurs

EZ Street - Inside Power Chords

EZ Street Exploring Counterpoint

EZ Street- How To Play Harmonics

EZ Street: Blending Sus Colors

EZ Street: Boogie Blues

EZ Street: Counterpoint Meets Ornamentation

EZ Street: Deluxe Moving Lines

EZ Street: Embracing The Capo

EZ Street: Exploring Moveable Arpeggios

EZ Street: Flashy Flatpicking

EZ Street: Flatpicking Bass Runs

EZ Street: Free Your Hands And Your Mind Will Follow

EZ Street: Get Rhythm

EZ Street: Hey Bo Diddley

EZ Street: How To Fingerpick Alternating Bass Patterns

EZ Street: How To Fingerpick Arpeggios

EZ Street: How To Nail Hammer-on

EZ Street: Melodies In Motion

EZ Street: Minor Bass Runs

EZ Street: More Capo Wizardry

EZ Street: Moveable Minor Arpeggios

EZ Street: Moving Lines Within Chords

EZ Street: Pattern Picking

EZ Street: Piano Boogie

EZ Street: Pull-Off Power

EZ Street: Steady-Thumb Blues

EZ Street: Sus Chord Mojo

EZ Street: Sus2 Colors

EZ Street: Working With Ornaments

Familiar Patterns

Fathers And Sons: London Chicago Blues Connection, Part 1

Fathers And Sons: London Chicago Blues Connection, Part 2

Fingerstyle Finesse

Freddie King's Texas Turnaround

From Allman To ZZ: 24 Slide Licks, Part 1

From Allman To ZZ: 24 Slide Licks, Part 2

Funk Time

George Benson's Burning Blues

Ghost In The Machine: How To Use Digital Delay, Part 1

Ghost In The Machine: How To Use Digital Delay, Part 2

Gnarly Major 7ths

Grant Green's Smoky Blues

Guest Guru: Rick Vito's Jump-Jivin' Blues

Guest Guru: Shane Theriot Takes It Out

Guts & Grace: Explore The Tough Sensuality Of Santana Lines Pt 1

Guts & Grace: Explore The Tough Sensuality Of Santana Lines Pt 2

Hand Jive Fingerpicking Lesson, Part 1

Hand Jive Fingerpicking Lesson, Part 2

Hand Me Down Blues

Hillbilly Blues, Part 1

Hillbilly Blues, Part 2

Hillbilly Harptones: J. Donahue On Mixing Open Strings With Fretted Notes, Pt 1

Hillbilly Harptones: J. Donahue On Mixing Open Strings With Fretted Notes, Pt 2

Hitting The G-Spot: Explore The Sexy And Funky Magic Of Open-G Tuning, Part 1

Hitting The G-Spot: Explore The Sexy And Funky Magic Of Open-G Tuning, Part 2

Honky Tonk - Tele Twang & Hillbilly Soul Pt 1

Honky Tonk - Tele Twang & Hillbilly Soul Pt 2

Hot Clubbing: John Jorgenson Demystifies The Art Of Django Jazz Part 1

Hot Clubbing: John Jorgenson Demystifies The Art Of Django Jazz Part 2

Hot Doggin' A Lesson In Flashy Fretwork With Brent Mason

Hot Wired: Roy Buchanan's 12 Steps To Better Bending, Part 1

Hot Wired: Roy Buchanan's 12 Steps To Better Bending, Part 2

How To Play Like: John Lee Hooker

How To Play Like: The Edge

How To Play Like... Duane Allman

How To Play Like... Jeff Beck

How To Play Like... Keith Richards

How To Play Like...Elmore James

How To Play Like...Joe Pass

Idiot's Guide To Chord Melody

Insane Sustain, Part 1

Insane Sustain, Part 2

Inside BB's Blues

Jazz Tripping, Part 1

Jazz Tripping, Part 2

Jazzin' The Blues

Jeff Beck's Chaos Theory

Joni Mitchell - Open Tuning Lesson

Junior Brown, Part 1

Junior Brown, Part 2

Kenny Burrell's Funky Comping

Knock On Wood: A Lesson In Classic Memphis Soul, Part 1

Knock On Wood: A Lesson In Classic Memphis Soul, Part 2

Lap Dancing, Part 1

Lap Dancing, Part 2

Larry Carlton's Slippery Bends

Lead Guitar - Get A Grip On Two-String Oblique Bends

Lead Guitar 101 - Hot Triplets

Lead Guitar 101 Bluesy Sliding Sixths

Lead Guitar 101: Flashy Fills From The Five-Note Scale

Lead Guitar 101: Flipped Bluesy Sixths

Lead Guitar 101: More Bending Madness

Lead Guitar 101: Wrenching Triple-String Oblique Bends

Lee Ranaldo's 12 String Tuning

Lenny Breau's Comping Workout

Lenny Breau's Well-Tempered Tuning

Let's Go Out Tonight

Lick Of The Month: The Sidewinder

Lost Lenny Breau Lesson, Part 1

Lost Lenny Breau Lesson, Part 2

Lydian Flat 7 Scale

Mapping Triads

Mark Knopfler's Fingerstyle Magic

Master Class: 6 String Bootcamp

Master Class: Bar Tab A Lesson With Jerry Douglas In Lap Slide

Master Class: Hip Grips

Master Class: Sax Therapy - Extreme Soloing Techniques Your Guitar

Master Class: Terrifying Tele: A Hot-Rod Country Lesson With Ray Flacke

Mick Taylor's Sticky Fingers

Mixolydian Magic

Mo' Mighty Turnarounds

Money Notes Part 1

Money Notes Part 2

New Worlds Of Slide, Part 1

New Worlds Of Slide, Part 2

Organisms: Hammond Style Comping On The Guitar, Pt 1

Organisms: Hammond Style Comping On The Guitar, Pt 2

Perpetual Motion Part 1

Perpetual Motion Part 2

Peter Green Jumping At Shadows, Part 1

Peter Green Jumping At Shadows, Part 2

Phrygian Fantasies

Piano Picking

Power Picking: Supercharge Your Flatpicking With Classic Celtic Tunes

Private Lesson With Albert Lee

R Ford's Unchained Melodies

Rattlesnake Shake, Part 1

Rattlesnake Shake, Part 2

Riffing With The Pack

Ring Out

Robben Ford: Boppin' The Blues, Part 1

Robben Ford: Boppin' The Blues, Part 2

Roots Rock Pilgrimage

Satch's Guitar Secret

Say 'Ahh'

Scale Skills: A Minor Matter

Six Essential Major Scale Forms

Slash & Burn: A Slammin' Slide Lesson With Eric Sardinas

Snap-Together Arpeggios

Sonic Snapshot: Joe Walsh's Dirty Funk

Sonic Snapshot: Pete Townshend's Ripping Riffs

Sonic Snapshot: Wes Montgomery's Punchy Octaves

Soul, Man: A Lesson With Steve Cropper, Part 1

Soul, Man: A Lesson With Steve Cropper, Part 2

Spiky Lydian

Spinning Enhanced Arpeggios

Steelworker Part 1

Steelworker Part 2

Stephen Still's Creamy Sustain

Steppin' Out: A Lesson In London Blues, Part 1

Steppin' Out: A Lesson In London Blues, Part 2

Stevie Ray Vaughan's 'Lenny'

Stratospheric: Mapping Eric Johnson's Harmonic Space, Part 1

Stratospheric: Mapping Eric Johnson's Harmonic Space, Part 2

Streaming Vertical Slices A Lesson With Adrian Legg In Fast, Fluid Fingerpicking

String Bending Workout

Subterranean Soul: Digging Detuned Guitar, Part 1

Subterranean Soul: Digging Detuned Guitar, Part 2

Sugarfoot Soul

Swing Comping

T-Bone Special: A Lesson In Blues, Part 1

T-Bone Special: A Lesson In Blues, Part 2

The Bead Game

The Fearsome Majesty Of The X-Y-Z Axis

The Main Change: Unlocking The Essentials Of Jazz

The Righteous Stuff

The Spider Crawl

Tony Rice's Banjo Roll

Tools - Not Rules

Tough Enough?: Hip Turnarounds

Tritone Turnaround

Twang Tango, Part 1

Twang Tango, Part 2

Twin Tones And Layered Lines Pt 1

Twin Tones And Layered Lines Pt 2

Two Guitar Tactics, Part 1

Two Guitar Tactics, Part 2

Umbrellas, Gloves, And Magic Bullets

Unboxing The Blues Pt 1

Unboxing The Blues Pt 2

Wait For The Beat

Wild Side Slide

Wind Chimes

X-Ray Specs

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About Andy Ellis

As a former Senior Editor at Guitar Player magazine and a current Senior Editor at Premier Guitar, Andy has interviewed and taken lessons with dozens of guitar masters, including Carlos Santana, Larry Carlton, B.B. King, Albert Lee, Eric Johnson, and Ry Cooder. A Berklee College of Music alum, Andy has studied with Mick Goodrick, Lenny Breau, and Stick inventor Emmett Chapman. Andy played the Stick solo on Amy Grant's Grammy Award-winning "Angels."

"The lessons in Guitar Player are not as hard to play as they look," says Andy, "but for many of us, written music appears daunting. The fact is, most guitarists' playing skills far surpass their reading abilities. When guitarists actually hear the examples, they realize, 'Hey, I can do that,' and feel inspired to tackle the lesson."