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Why You’re Still Struggling to Learn the Modes

There comes a time in every guitarist’s life when they feel the need to *drum roll* learn the modes. While […]

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

As guitarists, we tend to play in a linear fashion by moving from one string to the next, and while […]

The Lydian Dominant Scale, also known as the Lydian b7 scale, is the fourth mode of the melodic minor. But […]

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

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

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

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

A while ago we took advantage of the top three strings of the guitar in standard tuning to come up […]

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