4NPS Scales
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Which Guitar Scale System Should You Actually Learn?
Search “which guitar scale system should I learn” and you’ll find a hundred articles arguing that their system is the…
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What Scales Did Allan Holdsworth Actually Use? (The Truth About His “Outside” Sound)
Ask the internet what scales Allan Holdsworth used and you’ll get three kinds of useless answer. The first is “everything”…
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Did Allan Holdsworth Learn Scales Like This?
If you’re a long-time reader of this blog, you’ll know that I’m a huge Allan Holdsworth fan, and have studied…
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Monster 4NPS Scale Runs without the Monster Stretches
I’ve been a huge fan of 4NPS (four-note-per-string) scales ever since I first saw them on the Allan Holdsworth REH…
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How to Find Scale Patterns That Work For You
Nowadays, I play in fourths tuning (EADGCF) around 75% of the time because I love it, and the rest of…
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Fretboard Motion: 3NPS + 4NPS Scales (Part 2)
In Part 1, we looked at dividing the fretboard up into string pairs in order play horizontally up and down…
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The Holdsworthian Approach to Diminished Scales
In honor of the passing of one of my most influential guitar heroes, Allan Holdsworth, and perhaps one of the…
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How to Own the Fretboard When Improvising
One of the great things about the guitar is the myriad of ways to play the same thing in various…
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Scale Patterns, Optical Illusions, and the ‘Breaking Out’ Myth
Our latest eBook, ‘Shred Guitar Mechanics: Fretboard Dexterity through 4NPS Scales’, is the product of extensive research into the benefits…
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Shred Guitar Secrets: 3NPS Meets 4NPS
Earlier this month we looked at 4NPS (four-note-per-string) scales as used by the likes of Allan Holdsworth in this article.…