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Dorian Mode Soloing Ideas

We all get stuck in scale ruts every now and again, especially where the modes are concerned. There’s a lot […]

I recently had a request for some 3NPS diminished scale patterns of the half-whole and whole-half variety. If you’ve ever […]

Legato is a great skill for guitar players to incorporate into their arsenal and comes in many forms; the word […]

You hear this phrase a lot in guitar-related media, learning material and sales-type rhetoric – it’s the idea, or the […]

In Part 1, we looked at dividing the fretboard up into string pairs in order play horizontally up and down […]

Earlier this month we looked at 4NPS (four-note-per-string) scales as used by the likes of Allan Holdsworth in this article. […]

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know I’m not a huge fan of the CAGED System. Its […]

Let’s face it, learning scales is hard work; there are just way too many of them, and how do you […]