You may think learning scales, arpeggios, licks and whatnot will make you a great improviser and don’t get me wrong–these things are the foundations of improvisation–but practicing these things have a kind of ‘limit of…
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In this lesson, I’ll show you how to take a complex idea – infusing your playing with Arabic guitar scales – and start working it into your repertoire in an effortless way. Branching out and…
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Chord tone soloing is one of those things that either eludes guitarists, or they shy away from it in favor of the one-scale-fits-all approach. While you can get by without necessarily learning chord tone soloing,…
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If you haven’t checked out Udemy, it’s a platform where you can learn pretty much anything at your own pace. It’s also been around for a while, so there are a ton of new and…
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The phrygian dominant scale is a hidden gem in the modes of the harmonic minor scale, but we’re not going to get into too much theory here; instead, we’re going to look at a couple…
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As guitarists, we tend to play in a linear fashion by moving from one string to the next, and while there’s nothing wrong with that, it can’t get somewhat limiting in sonic terms. To break…
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When Allan Holdsworth played chords, it could look downright bemusing and somewhat physically demanding; what’s more, how did he even come up with that stuff in the first place? Even before discovering Holdsworth myself, I…
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There’s something about the major pentatonic scale that seems very dry to me, which can be a good thing because it lends itself well to being combined with other concepts such as the minor pentatonic…
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The Lydian Dominant Scale, also known as the Lydian b7 scale, is the fourth mode of the melodic minor. But don’t worry about that for now as what we’re going to do is approach it…
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A lot of musicians draw parallels between learning music and learning languages, and I would equate fluent improvisation skills to fluency skills in another language that isn’t your mother tongue. What I mean by pentatonic…
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