Graham Tippett, Author at Unlock the Guitar

Spice Up Your Soloing with the Finger Roll

If you’ve learned your scales and they’ve ended up sounding like… scales, there are a number of things you can […]

The transition from pentatonic soloing to fusion or jazz improvisation can be a depressing time for guitarists as the good […]

As guitarists we spend a great deal of time learning and honing our scales in order to improvise, but more […]

I’m a big fan of the hungarian minor scale because like most exotic scales, it steps outside the stable harmony […]

I know it sounds like a gimmicky, clickbait title but if you’ve got 12 days to spare, I’ve come up […]

A while ago we looked at how to make music with the Lydian scale in this lesson, so let’s continue […]

I’ve never really been into learning other people’s guitar solos note-for-note, so you won’t find a whole lot of those […]

If you’ve been playing for a while you’ve probably gotten your lead playing to the point where you can pretty […]

You’ve probably had the ‘pleasure’ of being in a guitar shop and hearing someone noodling in A minor or E […]

I like to experiment with permutations of scales and intervals in order to come up with sequences that are unique […]