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Guitar Hacks for Soloing Over Complicated Chords

If you’re comfortable soloing over major/minor and seventh chords, but things get a little shaky when you have to come […]

Let’s face it, improvisation of any kind on guitar is hard but if you work at it, you’ll be rewarded. […]

It’s no secret that your average saxophone player is light-years ahead of your average guitarist when it comes to improvisation; […]

If you take a closer look at John Scofield’s playing, you’ll see him play lines up and down the fretboard […]

Following on the from the lesson on Parallel Thinking, I thought it would be useful to take a deeper look […]

Parallel thinking is a great weapon to have in your improvisational arsenal, not least because it allows you to get […]

In honor of the passing of one of my most influential guitar heroes, Allan Holdsworth, and perhaps one of the […]

There’s no unwritten rule that says you have to use the entire fretboard when soloing, but if the music you […]

I remember this point in my guitar development well. I had gotten well-versed in various pentatonic scales and the blues […]

In Part 1 we looked at how to use the major scale patterns to solo over pretty much any kind […]