In the second part of this tutorial, we look at minor, dominant and other useful scales using the method we outlined in Part 1. Give…
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In this lesson, I’d like to show you a quick and dirty way to outline the changes in a 12-bar blues in A, rather than…
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A student once asked me if there was a foolproof way not to get lost when soloing on guitar and as I didn’t really have…
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By far the quickest way to get stuck in a rut with your guitar playing is the memorization trap. What do I mean by this?…
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Pentatonics Pro is a side project I’ve been working on for a while now which involved mapping out the 330 possible pentatonic scales into a…
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It’s been a while since we’ve looked at blues soloing, so I thought I’d add to the Blues Soloing Tricks series of posts with a…
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A common problem among guitarists is getting lost while improvising. There are many reasons for this, the most notorious one being an over-reliance on patterns.…
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We’ve been talking a lot on the blog lately about improvisation methods and systems. The guitar is a double-edged sword in this regard as a…
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In Part 8, we look at the last of the upper chord extensions: the 13, and we’ll also be walking you through the process of…
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You might be feeling somewhat overwhelmed at this point, so it would be a good idea to take a breather and take stock of what…
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