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Easy Arabic Guitar Scales

In this lesson, I’ll show you how to take a complex idea – infusing your playing with Arabic guitar scales […]

The phrygian dominant scale is a hidden gem in the modes of the harmonic minor scale, but we’re not going […]

The Lydian Dominant Scale, also known as the Lydian b7 scale, is the fourth mode of the melodic minor. But […]

Ear training, especially for guitar, is probably the least interesting thing to do on the instrument, though perhaps one of […]

I have a fascination for the number 5 and everything that’s associated with it. In guitar terms this translates to […]

If you’ve been playing or studying modes for a while now, you might have overlooked the Phrygian mode in favor […]

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

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

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