The 5 pentatonic shapes are a staple of learning rock or blues guitar, though truth be told most guitarists generally use 3 of them at…
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As you may have already gathered, any chord, arpeggio or scale can be written out as a sequence of intervals. This information is often lost…
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If you’re a long-time reader of this blog, you’ll know that I’m a huge Allan Holdsworth fan, and have studied his approach to scales, chords…
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A couple of days ago we looked at How to Easily Learn Multiple Scale Patterns in parallel using just three different scale patterns/positions. In this…
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This might not be everyone’s cup of tea but if at some point you want to get into jazz or jazz fusion, and are into…
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There’s no doubt about it, Eric Clapton is possibly one of the most influential guitarists of all time and while he tends to get overlooked…
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If you’re serious about learning guitar, beyond having the technical ability to play your favorite songs, then at some stage you’ll need to learn scales.…
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I’ve been a huge fan of 4NPS (four-note-per-string) scales ever since I first saw them on the Allan Holdsworth REH DVD back when it was…
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Here’s an interesting concept for you to try out. I remember playing around with it unintentionally when I first began to look at major scale…
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While the pentatonic scale is an incredibly useful tool for guitar players of the rock and blues variety, the standard method of learning the scale…
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