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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 – and

As guitarists, we tend to play in a linear fashion by moving from one string to the next, and while there’s nothing

The Lydian Dominant Scale, also known as the Lydian b7 scale, is the fourth mode of the melodic minor. But don’t worry

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

Ear training, especially for guitar, is probably the least interesting thing to do on the instrument, though perhaps one of the most

I have a fascination for the number 5 and everything that’s associated with it. In guitar terms this translates to pentatonic scales,

I recently had a request for some 3NPS diminished scale patterns of the half-whole and whole-half variety. If you’ve ever studied the

A while ago we took advantage of the top three strings of the guitar in standard tuning to come up with twelve

A lot of players get to the point where they’ve learned their scale patterns, be they CAGED, 3NPS patterns, my own Hacking

In the second part of this tutorial, we look at minor, dominant and other useful scales using the method we outlined in