Graham Tippett, Author at Unlock the Guitar

How to (Finally) Learn Your Fretboard (Part 8)

If you’re still with me, we’ll dedicate this part to summarizing and consolidating what we’ve learned so far into a […]

In Part 7 of our series on how to learn the fretboard, we turn our attention to major chords and […]

Let’s continue our analysis by looking at more complex chords and their corresponding intervals. Minor 7 chords contain the intervals […]

I recently had a request for some 3NPS diminished scale patterns of the half-whole and whole-half variety. If you’ve ever […]

You’ve reached the turning point! If you’ve been practicing the material in the previous parts, and depending on how long […]

Read Part 3 here. The Perfect 4thThe perfect 4th is the ‘Smoke on the Water’ interval, where it’s used to […]

Check out Part 2 here. 3 and 7 Combinations IIWe need to be fluent in recognizing intervals going in all […]

Check out Part 1 here. In practice, we use a combination of note names and intervals to navigate the fretboard. […]

As you’ve probably got a lot of time on your hands (coronavirus quarantine/lockdown at the time of writing), why not […]

A while ago we took advantage of the top three strings of the guitar in standard tuning to come up […]