February 2018 - Unlock the Guitar

How to Avoid Cliché Pentatonic Licks

While the pentatonic scale is an incredibly useful tool for guitar players of the rock and blues variety, the standard […]

You’ll find a lot of stuff on the internet about breaking out of scale boxes; some players suggest learning the […]

We’ve been talking a lot on the blog lately about improvisation methods and systems. The guitar is a double-edged sword […]

In Part 8, we look at the last of the upper chord extensions: the 13, and we’ll also be walking […]

You might be feeling somewhat overwhelmed at this point, so it would be a good idea to take a breather […]

Nowadays, I play in fourths tuning (EADGCF) around 75% of the time because I love it, and the rest of […]

In Part 6, we look at the mysterious world of 11 and #11 chords and how to simplify the process […]

So far, we’ve looked at our core intervals, the 1, 3, and 7 (plus the b3 and b7), the 5 […]

In Part 4 of this series of blog posts, we look at how to decode chords and compare improvising with […]