You may think learning scales, arpeggios, licks and whatnot will make you a great improviser and don’t get me wrong–these things are the foundations of improvisation–but practicing these things have a kind of ‘limit of…
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A lot of musicians draw parallels between learning music and learning languages, and I would equate fluent improvisation skills to fluency skills in another language that isn’t your mother tongue. What I mean by pentatonic…
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Ear training, especially for guitar, is probably the least interesting thing to do on the instrument, though perhaps one of the most important skills to practice. So, instead of tedious interval exercises, I’ve come up…
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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 handy scale patterns. In this lesson, we’re going to use…
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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 patterns, hacked 3NPS patterns, or the much-loved 2 Position Guitar…
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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 it a quick read to make sure you’re up to…
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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, which if you think about it is probably not the…
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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 lesson, I’d like to revisit those scale patterns and give…
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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 Part 1 and Part 2 as they’ll provide you with…
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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 solo can be approached in many ways depending on the…
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