Wayne Krantz Archives - Unlock the Guitar

Pentatonics Pro – All 330 Pentatonic Scale Combinations

October 17, 2018Graham TippettLeave a Comment

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 collection of scale patterns (combinations of 5 intervals) along with a method to explore them … Read more

Wayne Krantz: An Improviser’s OS Book Review

January 29, 2018October 24, 2018Graham TippettLeave a Comment

I recently got my hands on a copy of Wayne Krantz’ Improviser’s OS book; weighing in at a little under 100 pages and barely a centimeter thick with no fancy cover, and not a single diagram – fretboard or otherwise … Read more

Wayne Krantz Guitar Lesson: Incorporating Open Strings into Solos

December 5, 2017November 5, 2018Graham TippettLeave a Comment

You may not have heard of him but Wayne Krantz is a monster guitar player. He’s carved a truly unique sound on the instrument based on discarding traditional chord shapes and scale patterns in favor of a rhythmically-driven approach that … Read more

The Advancing Improviser: Zonal Improvisation on Guitar

May 12, 2017January 21, 2019Graham TippettLeave a Comment

Following on the from the lesson on Parallel Thinking, I thought it would be useful to take a deeper look at the role of scale patterns in learning to improvise, and what I call Zonal Improvisation. According to … Read more