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Altered Scale for Guitar – The Easy Way

The altered scale for guitar is a difficult concept to grasp for a lot of players. This is because you get told

It’s been a while since we’ve looked at blues soloing, so I thought I’d add to the Blues Soloing Tricks series of

I’m a huge fan and student of jazz guitar, but I’m definitely not an expert. If you’ve ever tried to get into

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

The transition from pentatonic soloing to fusion or jazz improvisation can be a depressing time for guitarists as the good old pentatonic

Soloing is one of the main attractions of the guitar, and something that we guitarists spend endless hours trying to perfect. So

One of the main differences between rock and jazz soloing is that the one-scale-fits-all (usually pentatonics) method doesn’t really cut it in

When you start getting into playing over changes, whether in jazz or blues, it can seem like a daunting task to have

Making the transition from rock to jazz playing can sometimes be a bewildering experience. You suddenly feel like a fish out of