How to Make Triad Soloing Work (Part 1)
This series of lessons is both a continuation of the How to (Finally) Learn Your Fretboard series, as well as […]
What to Do When You’ve Learned Your Scale Patterns
A lot of players get to the point where they’ve learned their scale patterns, be they CAGED, 3NPS patterns, my […]
How to Solo Using One Scale Pattern (Part 2)
In the second part of this tutorial, we look at minor, dominant and other useful scales using the method we […]
How to Solo Using One Scale Pattern (Part 1)
This is something that a lot of players dismiss because they think they must learn 5 or 7 patterns for […]
How Not to Get Lost in a Guitar Solo
A student once asked me if there was a foolproof way not to get lost when soloing on guitar and […]
When NOT Breaking Out of the Box is a Good Thing
You’ve probably seen a ton of stuff on the internet, and particularly on YouTube, about ‘breaking out of the box’, […]
An Alternative to the 5 Pentatonic Shapes
The 5 pentatonic shapes are a staple of learning rock or blues guitar, though truth be told most guitarists generally […]
Hack #13: Blues Scales: Start with Mixolydian
This is an excerpt from 25 Guitar Scale Hacks, check out the full eBook here. If you’re getting into blues […]
Practicing Without Patterns
As you may have already gathered, any chord, arpeggio or scale can be written out as a sequence of intervals. […]
The Memorization Trap
By far the quickest way to get stuck in a rut with your guitar playing is the memorization trap. What […]