Intervals
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How to (Finally) Learn Your Fretboard (Part 1)
Why not use some of your practice time to (finally) learn the fretboard? By learning the fretboard I mean breaking…
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How Not to Get Lost in a Guitar Solo
A student once asked me if there was a foolproof way not to get lost when soloing on guitar and…
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Practicing Without Patterns
As you may have already gathered, any chord, arpeggio or scale can be written out as a sequence of intervals.…
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How to Avoid Cliché Pentatonic Licks
While the pentatonic scale is an incredibly useful tool for guitar players of the rock and blues variety, the standard…
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The Key to Breaking Out of Scale Boxes
You’ll find a lot of stuff on the internet about breaking out of scale boxes; some players suggest learning the…
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How to Solo Over Chord Changes (Part 7)
You might be feeling somewhat overwhelmed at this point, so it would be a good idea to take a breather…
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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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How to Play What You Hear in Your Head (Part 3)
If you’ve been following this series, you’re probably beginning to see how useful a knowledge of intervals coupled with a…
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How to Play What You Hear in Your Head (Part 2)
One thing I noticed when I began to purposely concentrate on learning to play what I heard in my head…
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Defining Your Sound: Minor Scales
Getting your head around intervals is a great way to start to take melodic control of your solos i.e. choosing…