What Really Took My Playing to the Next Level
You hear this phrase a lot in guitar-related media, learning material and sales-type rhetoric – it’s the idea, or the […]
How to Learn the Harmonized Major Scale (Part 2)
In Part 1 we looked at the basic theory behind the harmonized major scale and how to learn four sets […]
How to Learn the Harmonized Major Scale (Part 1)
A great way to learn chords and chord progressions is to learn them in context, whether it be a song […]
Diatonic Harmony: Soloing Over Chord Progressions
Knowing what scales to use over a given chord progression was always shrouded in mystery for me until I understood […]
The 2 Golden Rules for Combining Scales with Chords
We’ve been talking a lot on the blog lately about improvisation methods and systems. The guitar is a double-edged sword […]
5 Steps to Knowing Which Chords Are In Any Key
When you come to write your own material as a solo artist, band member, composer, or anything else, you’re going […]