Leigh’s Left-hand Legato Workout
Legato is a great skill for guitar players to incorporate into their arsenal and comes in many forms; the word […]
Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Easily Jazz Up Your Blues Soloing
It’s been a while since we’ve looked at blues soloing, so I thought I’d add to the Blues Soloing Tricks […]
The Most Versatile Yet Underused Picking Technique
What do Steve Morse, bluegrass and 10-year-old Japanese guitar prodigy Li-Sa-X have in common? The answer is that they’ve all […]
How Not to Get Lost When Improvising Over Little Wing
A common problem among guitarists is getting lost while improvising. There are many reasons for this, the most notorious one […]
10 Game-Changing Soloing Tips for Guitarists
Sometimes all it takes is a suggestion or a new perspective to jump-start your improvisation skills or give your solos […]
Two-Note-Per-String Major Scales and Modes
Here’s an interesting concept for you to try out. I remember playing around with it unintentionally when I first began […]
What Really Took My Playing to the Next Level
You hear this phrase a lot in guitar-related media, learning material and sales-type rhetoric – it’s the idea, or the […]
How to Learn the Harmonized Major Scale (Part 2)
In Part 1 we looked at the basic theory behind the harmonized major scale and how to learn four sets […]
How to Learn the Harmonized Major Scale (Part 1)
A great way to learn chords and chord progressions is to learn them in context, whether it be a song […]
Diatonic Harmony: Soloing Over Chord Progressions
Knowing what scales to use over a given chord progression was always shrouded in mystery for me until I understood […]