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Monster 4NPS Scale Runs without the Monster Stretches

I’ve been a huge fan of 4NPS (four-note-per-string) scales ever since I first saw them on the Allan Holdsworth REH […]

Here’s an interesting concept for you to try out. I remember playing around with it unintentionally when I first began […]

While the pentatonic scale is an incredibly useful tool for guitar players of the rock and blues variety, the standard […]

You’ll find a lot of stuff on the internet about breaking out of scale boxes; some players suggest learning the […]

We’ve been talking a lot on the blog lately about improvisation methods and systems. The guitar is a double-edged sword […]

Nowadays, I play in fourths tuning (EADGCF) around 75% of the time because I love it, and the rest of […]

We all know that one of the biggest challenges faced by guitarists, after putting in the hours to learn all […]

If you think you know your scales, think again – your knowledge may be incomplete. A lot of players equate […]

As guitarists, we tend to practice scales and scale patterns in a non-discriminate way; what I mean by this is […]

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