Improvisation – Page 7 – Unlock the Guitar

The Odd Time Cure for Mindless Guitar Soloing

September 15, 2016

If you’ve been playing for a while you’ve probably gotten your lead playing to the point where you can pretty…

September 2, 2016

I like to experiment with permutations of scales and intervals in order to come up with sequences that are unique…

June 4, 2016

If you were to learn how to improvise without using scales, how would you go about it? This the was…

April 18, 2016

If you’ve been following this series, you’re probably beginning to see how useful a knowledge of intervals coupled with a…

March 6, 2016

One of the most challenging things about learning to use modes is crafting your licks and runs to bring out…

January 22, 2016

Soloing is one of the main attractions of the guitar, and something that we guitarists spend endless hours trying to…

January 18, 2016

The top three strings of the guitar in standard tuning (GBE) present a unique set of interval locations that is…

January 6, 2016

Once in a while you see a guitarist perform, not necessarily a well-known one, and the consensus is that the…

December 7, 2015

I touched on how to connect scale patterns briefly at the end of this post a while back, so I…

November 12, 2015

Let’s face it, learning scales is hard work; there are just way too many of them, and how do you…