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Easy Arabic Guitar Scales

In this lesson, I’ll show you how to take a complex idea – infusing your playing with Arabic guitar scales – and

There’s something about the major pentatonic scale that seems very dry to me, which can be a good thing because it lends

The Lydian Dominant Scale, also known as the Lydian b7 scale, is the fourth mode of the melodic minor. But don’t worry

A lot of musicians draw parallels between learning music and learning languages, and I would equate fluent improvisation skills to fluency skills

It’s fairly common for intermediate players to get stuck in a pentatonic rut. The problem is usually not the pentatonic scale itself…

I have a fascination for the number 5 and everything that’s associated with it. In guitar terms this translates to pentatonic scales,

There are literally endless things you can do with pentatonic scales in music and especially on the guitar. We all love them,

This is a great one to easily generate a Lydian sound over a major 7 chord by using none other than a

You’ve probably heard this one a few times… or perhaps even said it yourself. Beginner guitarists, if they can get past those

The 5 pentatonic shapes are a staple of learning rock or blues guitar, though truth be told most guitarists generally use 3