You’ve reached the turning point! If you’ve been practicing the material in the previous parts, and depending on how long you’ve been playing, you’ll most…
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Read Part 3 here. The Perfect 4thThe perfect 4th is the ‘Smoke on the Water’ interval, where it’s used to great effect. In a scale,…
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Check out Part 2 here. 3 and 7 Combinations IIWe need to be fluent in recognizing intervals going in all directions on the guitar. Take…
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Check out Part 1 here. In practice, we use a combination of note names and intervals to navigate the fretboard. Note names are our GPS:…
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As you’ve probably got a lot of time on your hands (coronavirus quarantine/lockdown at the time of writing), why not use it to (finally) learn…
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A while ago we took advantage of the top three strings of the guitar in standard tuning to come up with twelve unique and very…
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A lot of players get to the point where they’ve learned their scale patterns, be they CAGED, 3NPS patterns, my own Hacking the CAGED System…
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In the second part of this tutorial, we look at minor, dominant and other useful scales using the method we outlined in Part 1. Give…
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This is something that a lot of players dismiss because they think they must learn 5 or 7 patterns for each scale in all keys,…
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In this lesson, I’d like to show you a quick and dirty way to outline the changes in a 12-bar blues in A, rather than…
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