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Guitar Hacks: Making the Connection Between Chords and Scales

This little guitar hack is particularly useful if you’re at that stage in your learning where you want to know […]

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

If you’re a fan of three-note-per-string (3NPS) scales, and have gotten all the patterns down, you might want to add […]

In this series, we’re taking a look at what I like to call, ‘fretboard motion’, which is ways of moving […]

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

It’s no secret that the guitar lends itself well to creating visual information such as chord shapes, scale boxes and […]

If you look at the fretboard of a fairly well-worn guitar like the one in the picture, you’ll notice that […]

One of the great things about the guitar is the myriad of ways to play the same thing in various […]

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

In actual fact, the 2 Position Guitar Scale System was the first book I wrote on the subject of scales, […]