In this lesson, I’ll show you how to take a complex idea – infusing your playing with Arabic guitar scales – and start working it into your repertoire in an effortless way. Branching out and…
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The phrygian dominant scale is a hidden gem in the modes of the harmonic minor scale, but we’re not going to get into too much theory here; instead, we’re going to look at a couple…
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The Lydian Dominant Scale, also known as the Lydian b7 scale, is the fourth mode of the melodic minor. But don’t worry about that for now as what we’re going to do is approach it…
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Ear training, especially for guitar, is probably the least interesting thing to do on the instrument, though perhaps one of the most important skills to practice. So, instead of tedious interval exercises, I’ve come up…
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I have a fascination for the number 5 and everything that’s associated with it. In guitar terms this translates to pentatonic scales, running right from those early days of discovering the intoxicating possibilities of the…
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If you’ve been playing or studying modes for a while now, you might have overlooked the Phrygian mode in favor of the more usable minor modes such as Dorian and Aeolian. The Phrygian mode was…
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I recently had a request for some 3NPS diminished scale patterns of the half-whole and whole-half variety. If you’ve ever studied the 3NPS (3-note-per-string) patterns, you’ll usually find there are 7 of them to learn;…
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I’m a big fan of the hungarian minor scale because like most exotic scales, it steps outside the stable harmony of the major scale, but unlike most exotic scales, it’s still very usable. There’s just…
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I like to experiment with permutations of scales and intervals in order to come up with sequences that are unique to the guitar, and therefore a powerful resource for creating ear-catching sounds you don’t hear…
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