Chord Chasing Mastery
Solo over chord changes by targeting chord tones
Chord Chasing Mastery is an online guitar soloing course taught by GuitarZoom Master Instructor Steve Stine. It shows you how to follow the chords of a song with your solo, using chord shapes, the CAGED system, arpeggios and scales. You learn note chasing and targeting chord tones over blues and pop/rock progressions, then how chord chasing connects to improvisation, melody and harmony. The course has 19 video lessons in five steps, about an hour and a half in total, with jam tracks and a 28-page PDF book.
What Chord Chasing Mastery is about
Steve breaks every skill into simple steps you can follow. In these videos, he plays an intro solo, shows how to see open and barre chords on the neck, and targets chord tones over a blues.
Course intro: Intro Solo · 2:18
Free preview lesson: Visualizing Open and Barre Chords · 9:55
Free preview lesson: Targeting Chord Tones: Blues · 11:03
Is Chord Chasing Mastery right for you?
- Players who know some scales. You can play scale shapes, but your solos don't follow the chords.
- Blues and rock players. You want your leads to sound tied to the changes in blues and pop/rock progressions.
- Players learning CAGED. You want a practical use for CAGED shapes and arpeggios in your solos.
- Improvisers who get stuck. You want a step-by-step way to build melodies over chords.
Skills you'll walk away with
- See open and barre chord shapes across the fretboard
- Use the CAGED system to link chords and scales
- Play arpeggios
- Create a melody by "note chasing" over blues and pop/rock progressions
- Target chord tones in a solo
- Chase chords across the neck with CAGED shapes
- Improvise over jam tracks using chord chasing
- Understand how chord chasing leads to melody and harmony parts
The course, module by module
The full lesson list is below.
Intro solo
A short solo performance to open the course.
Course introduction
An overview of the chord chasing approach and how the steps fit together.
Step 1: Preparation with scales and chords
Visualizing open and barre chords, the CAGED system, arpeggios and scale concepts.
Step 2: Creating a melody with note chasing
Note chasing over a jam, then over a blues and a pop/rock progression, with jam tracks to practice.
Step 3: From note chasing to chord chasing
Targeting chord tones over blues and pop/rock progressions, and chord chasing with CAGED shapes.
Step 4: Chord chasing and improvisation
Putting it all together: how chord chasing connects to improvisation, with a jam track.
Step 5: From chord chasing to harmony
Melody and harmony discussions with performances, a wrap-up and final thoughts.
Learn at your own pace
Clear video lessons
Every move is shown up close. Pause, rewind and repeat each lesson as often as you need.
Practice materials
Includes 28-page PDF book, Jam tracks. Use them to practice what you learn in each lesson.
Yours for life
Pay once and come back any time, on your computer, tablet or phone. No subscription.
Steve Stine
Steve has taught guitar for more than 30 years and has helped millions of players in over 100 countries. He has a Music Education degree from Minnesota State University Moorhead and taught guitar at North Dakota State University. He's known for breaking hard things into simple steps you can follow. Read Steve's full story
What students say about Steve's teaching
Excellent · 4.8 out of 5 on TrustpilotRead our reviews"I'm just overjoyed to come across learning material that I've yearned for."
Andy M.Australia
"Thank you for breaking down music theory and making it so easy to learn."
Travis B.United States
"I have definitely improved and I enjoy it immensely."
Melina K.United States
"Steve Stine is the teacher that I have been looking for a long time."
Jimmy H.United States
"I discovered your courses. I find them great. It's a complete guitar journey and I learned something every week."
Philip M.United States
"It made the fretboard much, much simpler and easier to understand than I have imagined it to be."
Geoffrey E.United Kingdom
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Where to go after Chord Chasing Mastery
Unlocking the CAGED System
Two lessons on how the CAGED system connects chord shapes across the fretboard and how to solo by following the melody.
Major Key Soloing
Learn to solo over major-key songs with dynamics, rhythm, phrasing, chord chasing and the CAGED system.
Guitar Solos
A step-by-step soloing course: lead techniques, phrasing, pentatonic scales, chord chasing, arpeggios and blues soloing.
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