A while ago we took advantage of the top three strings of the guitar in standard tuning to come up with twelve unique and very…
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A lot of players get to the point where they’ve learned their scale patterns, be they CAGED, 3NPS patterns, my own Hacking the CAGED System…
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In the second part of this tutorial, we look at minor, dominant and other useful scales using the method we outlined in Part 1. Give…
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This is something that a lot of players dismiss because they think they must learn 5 or 7 patterns for each scale in all keys,…
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A couple of days ago we looked at How to Easily Learn Multiple Scale Patterns in parallel using just three different scale patterns/positions. In this…
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If you’ve been following this series, you can probably guess how we’re going to form eleventh arpeggios. If you haven’t, feel free to check out…
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We’ve been talking a lot on the blog lately about improvisation methods and systems. The guitar is a double-edged sword in this regard as a…
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Nowadays, I play in fourths tuning (EADGCF) around 75% of the time because I love it, and the rest of the time I use standard…
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We all know that one of the biggest challenges faced by guitarists, after putting in the hours to learn all those scale patterns, is how…
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If you think you know your scales, think again – your knowledge may be incomplete. A lot of players equate knowing a scale with knowing…
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