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How to Simplify Any Scale and Improvise With It

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 […]

If you take a closer look at John Scofield’s playing, you’ll see him play lines up and down the fretboard […]

Following on the from the lesson on Parallel Thinking, I thought it would be useful to take a deeper look […]

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

In honor of the passing of one of my most influential guitar heroes, Allan Holdsworth, and perhaps one of the […]

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 […]