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What Really Took My Playing to the Next Level

You 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 will provide you with the

Chords: How to Learn the Harmonized Major Scale (Part 1)

A great way to learn chords and chord progressions is to learn them in context, whether it be a song or the chord chart for a backing track (yes, don’t just wail over them, learn the chord progression). Chords are

Diatonic Harmony: Soloing Over Chord Progressions

Knowing what scales to use over a given chord progression was always shrouded in mystery for me until I understood diatonic harmony and non-diatonic harmony. Don’t worry though, this isn’t a full-on theory lesson because what I want you to

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What Really Took My Playing to the Next Level

Chords: How to Learn the Harmonized Major Scale (Part 1)

Diatonic Harmony: Soloing Over Chord Progressions