Graham Tippett, Author at 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 […]

In Part 3, we start soloing over chord changes using the four base sequences from Part 2. Remember, this is […]