Guitar Lessons & Articles
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Are You Actually Improvising? Take This Quick Test
Here’s a question that sounds like a trick and isn’t. When you take a solo, are you choosing the notes…
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Ted Greene’s Chord Chemistry: Thirty Years, Nothing To Show
I’ve owned Ted Greene’s Chord Chemistry for about thirty years. I’ve opened it maybe forty times. I have never once…
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The Advancing Guitarist by Mick Goodrick: What’s Actually In It, and How to Use It
There’s a specific thing that happens with this book. Someone mentions it in a thread about improvisation. Three people reply…
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Pentatonic Scale Alternatives on Guitar — New Sounds Without New Complexity
The minor pentatonic scale is one of the great gifts in music. Five notes, infinite phrasing possibilities, works over more…
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How to Connect Guitar Scale Positions (Without Learning More Patterns)
Every guide on connecting guitar scale positions tells you the same thing: learn all five boxes, then practise moving between…
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Diatonic Chords on Guitar — The System Behind Every Chord Progression You’ve Ever Played
Most explanations of diatonic chords show you a formula, walk you through C major, and leave you with a table.…