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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You’ve probably seen a ton of stuff on the internet, and particularly on YouTube, about ‘breaking out of the box’, which basically means you’re stuck…
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The 5 pentatonic shapes are a staple of learning rock or blues guitar, though truth be told most guitarists generally use 3 of them at…
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This is an excerpt from 25 Guitar Scale Hacks, check out the full eBook here. If you’re getting into blues soloing, you’re probably already familiar…
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As you may have already gathered, any chord, arpeggio or scale can be written out as a sequence of intervals. This information is often lost…
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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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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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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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Here’s an interesting concept for you to try out. I remember playing around with it unintentionally when I first began to look at major scale…
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