We all get stuck in scale ruts every now and again, especially where the modes are concerned. There’s a lot more music to be made out of your average mode than you can probably see…
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I recently had a request for some 3NPS diminished scale patterns of the half-whole and whole-half variety. If you’ve ever studied the 3NPS (3-note-per-string) patterns, you’ll usually find there are 7 of them to learn;…
Leave a CommentLegato is a great skill for guitar players to incorporate into their arsenal and comes in many forms; the word translates to “tied together” meaning the player is linking a sequence or series of notes…
Leave a CommentYou hear this phrase a lot in guitar-related media, learning material and sales-type rhetoric – it’s the idea, or the promise that some kind of insight in the form of a lesson, course, or book…
Leave a CommentIn Part 1, we looked at dividing the fretboard up into string pairs in order play horizontally up and down the neck. In Part 2, we take the symmetry idea a little further by creating…
Leave a CommentEarlier this month we looked at 4NPS (four-note-per-string) scales as used by the likes of Allan Holdsworth in this article. There’s an interesting correlation between 3NPS and 4NPS patterns, in particular the fingering, which is…
Leave a CommentIf you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know I’m not a huge fan of the CAGED System. Its distant cousin the 3NPS (three-note-per-string) System is a little more palatable, but still overwhelmingly a…
Leave a CommentLet’s face it, learning scales is hard work; there are just way too many of them, and how do you even know if you’re using the right approach or the right number of patterns? Many…
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