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Eric Ruscinski is a producer, engineer, multi-instrumentalist, and musical director from Toronto, based in Los Angeles. Eric has worked live and in studio with artists such as Alessia Cara, Powfu, Jason Mraz, Celine Dion, Norah Jones, X Ambassadors, Elley Duhé, Donna Missal, Ben Platt, Winona Oak, Ally Salort, Terence Ryan, Hoko, Ouse, and more. Eric currently offers 52 guitar lessons at JamPlay, with 52 intermediate lessons.
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Looking to step outside the box a little bit and find new ways to make you're playing more interesting and creative? Eric Ruscinkski's course Crafting Parts For Modern Guitar will help you add character to your chords and progressions that will inspire you and help you move forward as a strong guitar player!
Eric Ruscinski introduces us to his course "Crafting Parts For Modern Guitar - Rhythm".
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In these first few lessons, Eric has us focused on open position with some tips on adding a little more "flavor" to our playing. This first lesson we will focus on the C Major signature.
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We move on to the key of G Major and Eric shows us something unique with each chord to help us stand out a little bit.
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Let's keep chugging away with adding some cool embellishments with our chords in the open position. This lesson we focus on E Minor!
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In this lesson, we play a simple progression in the key of E Major.
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For our last lesson with a focus on our open position, Eric breaks down some tips on the A Major signature.
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Now that we have learned a good amount of embellishments for our open position, let's move up the guitar neck!
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In this lesson with major and minor barre chords now under our belt, we dive a bit deeper with getting major and minor 7 chords under our fingers to give our playing more texture.
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This next lesson has us playing a progression that is cumulative of the last two lessons we learned involving barre chords.
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Eric introduces us to the CAGED system which is a way of remembering certain chords that we can actually move up the whole fret board!
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In this lesson, Eric talks us through the multiple ways to use open strings on a guitar along with when and where to us our capos!
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Now that we have gotten used to our capo, let's take a deeper dive with it in this next progression.
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Jumping back to a key we played earlier in this course, the key of E Major, now we are going to incorporate open strings and different shapes and move them around different parts of the guitar neck!
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In this lesson, we play in the key of A with a progression we played back in lesson 6. This time Eric expands on the progression showing us three different places to play it on the neck.
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Eric takes the very first progression we learned at the beginning of this course and opens up our vocabulary a little bit more by showing us how to play the same progression in a few different ways.
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In these next few lessons, Eric introduces us to sparse voicings and how and when to use them. For this lesson, we focus on the key of E minor.
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Let's take those same voicings from the previous lesson and move them to the key of B Major.
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We move into the key of F Major using sparse voicings!
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For our last lesson with a focus on sparse voicings, we move into the key of C major.
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Let's put some focus on our right-hand technique and how we use it to support our guitar playing.
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In this lesson, Eric puts our focus on strumming, specifically with the acoustic guitar.
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Eric shows some fingerstyle ideas if we are looking to add some rhythm to a piece.
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For our last section in this course, we focus on arranging guitar parts for modern guitar! In this lesson, we focus on the key of C Major.
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Let's move into the key of D Major, using some major 7 chords and sparse voicings when playing over this next track!
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For this next track, we take some bar chords, major 7 shapes, and some right-hand picking to find new ways to make this progression a little more interesting.
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In this lesson, we take the same track and same progression from the previous lesson and switch to an acoustic guitar!
For our last lesson of the course, we jump into the key of B Major!
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Eric Ruscinski's course on crafting lead parts for modern guitar is designed to expand your skill set in regard to lead guitar playing, and help you move around the fretboard more confidently. By the end of this course, you will have the tools to craft some simple but effective lead guitar parts!
Eric introduces us to "Crafting Parts for Modern Guitar: Lead"!
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For the first section of this course, we will be working on unlocking the fretboard and connecting some notes. In this lesson, we began unpacking the CAGED system, starting with the C shape.
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Let's move on to our A shape!
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In this lesson, we are still in the key of C but now in a G shape.
Moving through the CAGED system, we are working on our E shape in this lesson.
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Completing our introduction to the CAGED system, Eric talks us through the D shape rooted in C major.
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Now that we have the CAGED system under our fingers, let's move these shapes to a different key!
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In this lesson, Eric puts our focus on the major pentatonic shapes that we can move up and down the guitar neck.
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Let's take some of the concepts from the previous lesson but this time we are shifting to minor pentatonic shapes.
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For this lesson, Eric gives us a little bit of a challenge where we are going to play the C major pentatonic shapes on just the 3rd and 4th strings!
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Let's take those pentatonic shapes and move them to strings 4 and 5!
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For the last lesson on our 2-string pentatonic exercise, we move to strings 5 and 6.
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In this lesson, Eric introduces us to some of his concepts involving the guitar shapes we have learned and being able to start on one spot on the guitar and smoothly finish at a different spot on our guitar!
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Now that we have some of these tools to start making these connections on our guitars, let's move onto a new run!
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Let's do one more pentatonic run within the concept of connecting these pentatonic shapes, this time we start with C major.
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In this lesson, Eric gives us an exercise that will get us more familiar with the shapes that we have learned, with the goal being to help us "think less" when improvising with lead guitar.
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In this lesson we dive into arpeggios, which helps us to better connect our shapes!
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Let's take the concepts from the previous lesson, and focus on minor arpeggios for this lesson.
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Eric discusses 3rds in this lesson which can add some great texture to your lead guitar playing!
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In this lesson, Eric touches on some lead parts we can play on just a single string!
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We further our knowledge of some lead guitar techniques, by reviewing single-string leads, slides, and vibrato to help us open some doors to better lead guitar playing!
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In this lesson, we take the concepts from the previous lesson and move them into the key of E major.
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For this lesson, we improvise with the pentatonic scale when looking to write lead guitar parts, melodies, or even solos!
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Let's bring some texture to our lead playing along with learning how to use volume swells!
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For our last lesson, we break down dyads and how to use them when creating lead parts!
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