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How to Practice Improvisation on Guitar

You may think learning scales, arpeggios, licks and whatnot will make you a great improviser and don’t get me wrong–these things are

In this lesson, I’ll show you how to take a complex idea – infusing your playing with Arabic guitar scales – and

Chord tone soloing is one of those things that either eludes guitarists, or they shy away from it in favor of the

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

The phrygian dominant scale is a hidden gem in the modes of the harmonic minor scale, but we’re not going to get

As guitarists, we tend to play in a linear fashion by moving from one string to the next, and while there’s nothing

When Allan Holdsworth played chords, it could look downright bemusing and somewhat physically demanding; what’s more, how did he even come up

There’s something about the major pentatonic scale that seems very dry to me, which can be a good thing because it lends

The Lydian Dominant Scale, also known as the Lydian b7 scale, is the fourth mode of the melodic minor. But don’t worry

A lot of musicians draw parallels between learning music and learning languages, and I would equate fluent improvisation skills to fluency skills