Graham Tippett, Author at Unlock the Guitar

A Quick Way to Add Chromatics to 3NPS Scales

If you’re a fan of three-note-per-string (3NPS) scales, and have gotten all the patterns down, you might want to add […]

As guitarists, we tend to get comfortable with our playing at a certain level and not venture out of our […]

Most guitarists get stuck in a scales rut sooner or later; this is somewhat due to learning patterns which, because […]

While playing fast for the sake of it is probably not a worthwhile pursuit on guitar, once you’re over 17, […]

While you might have been dazzled into thinking that phenomenal technique and a mastery of music are a fundamental part […]

It’s no secret that your average saxophone player is light-years ahead of your average guitarist when it comes to improvisation; […]

Out of the 20 something years I’ve been playing guitar, I’ve had lessons for about 3 of those, so I’m […]

While using a metronome to get your timing down is an essential part of being able to play guitar well, […]

When you come to write your own material as a solo artist, band member, composer, or anything else, you’re going […]

Continuing our series on blues soloing tricks, we look at how to use the different intervals in blues playing, we […]