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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes all it takes is a suggestion or a new perspective to jump-start your improvisation skills or give your solos a new lease of life,…
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You’ll find a lot of stuff on the internet about breaking out of scale boxes; some players suggest learning the modes (more boxes?) or throwing…
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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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