If you’re still with me, we’ll dedicate this part to summarizing and consolidating what we’ve learned so far into a usable system that you can…
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Let’s continue our analysis by looking at more complex chords and their corresponding intervals. Minor 7 chords contain the intervals 1, ♭3, 5, ♭7 as…
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You’ve reached the turning point! If you’ve been practicing the material in the previous parts, and depending on how long you’ve been playing, you’ll most…
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Read Part 3 here. The Perfect 4thThe perfect 4th is the ‘Smoke on the Water’ interval, where it’s used to great effect. In a scale,…
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Check out Part 2 here. 3 and 7 Combinations IIWe need to be fluent in recognizing intervals going in all directions on the guitar. Take…
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Check out Part 1 here. In practice, we use a combination of note names and intervals to navigate the fretboard. Note names are our GPS:…
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This leads on from what I was talking about in a previous article but it applies more specifically to intermediate guitarists, or those that are…
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I can’t remember where I saw this but it’s a great exercise for improving your phrasing, as well as getting out of scale ruts and…
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For the most part I taught myself to play guitar. I spent a year at Music College and had a teacher for the year or…
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Guitarists often get stuck in a rut during the (endless) process of learning this amazing instrument. Most believe it’s inevitable that your learning rate will…
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