Guitar Lessons & Articles
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An Alternative to the 5 Pentatonic Shapes
The 5 pentatonic shapes are a staple of learning rock or blues guitar, though truth be told most guitarists generally…
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The One Thing You Should Learn from Yngwie Malmsteen
Yngwie Malmsteen is somewhat of an enigma in the guitar world. You may love him or hate him, and he…
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A More Practical Way to Learn Guitar Triads
I’m constantly looking for more practical ways to learn things on guitar, especially the tedious stuff like scales, arpeggios and…
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Hack #13: Blues Scales: Start with Mixolydian
This is an excerpt from 25 Guitar Scale Hacks, check out the full eBook here. If you’re getting into blues…
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Practicing Without Patterns
As you may have already gathered, any chord, arpeggio or scale can be written out as a sequence of intervals.…
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Did Allan Holdsworth Learn Scales Like This?
If you’re a long-time reader of this blog, you’ll know that I’m a huge Allan Holdsworth fan, and have studied…