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Easy Arabic Guitar Scales

In this lesson, I’ll show you how to take a complex idea – infusing your playing with Arabic guitar scales […]

There’s something about the major pentatonic scale that seems very dry to me, which can be a good thing because […]

A lot of musicians draw parallels between learning music and learning languages, and I would equate fluent improvisation skills to […]

The altered scale for guitar is a difficult concept to grasp for a lot of players. This is because you […]

It’s fairly common for intermediate players to get stuck in a pentatonic rut. The problem is usually not the pentatonic […]

I have a fascination for the number 5 and everything that’s associated with it. In guitar terms this translates to […]

There are literally endless things you can do with pentatonic scales in music and especially on the guitar. We all […]

This is a great one to easily generate a Lydian sound over a major 7 chord by using none other […]

I often get students who like the idea or the sound of modes but are put off by the theory, […]

You’ve probably heard this one a few times… or perhaps even said it yourself. Beginner guitarists, if they can get […]