Improvisation
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The Advancing Improviser: Parallel Thinking
Parallel thinking is a great weapon to have in your improvisational arsenal, not least because it allows you to get…
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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 I See the Entire Fretboard When Improvising
There’s no unwritten rule that says you have to use the entire fretboard when soloing, but if the music you…
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How to Move Beyond Pentatonics without Theory Headaches
I remember this point in my guitar development well. I had gotten well-versed in various pentatonic scales and the blues…
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The Simplest Way to Solo Over Anything (Part 2)
In Part 1 we looked at how to use the major scale patterns to solo over pretty much any kind…
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The Simplest Way to Solo Over Anything (Part 1)
If you’re not one of those guitarists that simply has to learn everything there is to know about absolutely everything…
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The 2 Position Guitar Scale System: An Overview
In actual fact, the 2 Position Guitar Scale System was the first book I wrote on the subject of scales,…
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Soloing by Numbers: Improve Your Phrasing and Your Alternate Picking
I can’t remember where I saw this but it’s a great exercise for improving your phrasing, as well as getting…
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Get Into the Hungarian Minor Scale
I’m a big fan of the hungarian minor scale because like most exotic scales, it steps outside the stable harmony…
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How to Approach a Guitar Solo like David Gilmour
I’ve never really been into learning other people’s guitar solos note-for-note, so you won’t find a whole lot of those…