Melodic Soloing
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Chord Tone Soloing – A Simple Method
Chord tone soloing is one of those things that either eludes guitarists, or they shy away from it in favor…
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How to Achieve Pentatonic Scale Fluency
A lot of musicians draw parallels between learning music and learning languages, and I would equate fluent improvisation skills to…
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A Simple Way to Think About Guitar Improvisation
You’ll find a ton of information on guitar improvisation on the internet, so much so that sifting through it all…
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How to Make Triad Soloing Work (Part 4)
What you need to do now is approach your arpeggios, scales and modes through formulas instead of any kind of…
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How to Make Triad Soloing Work (Part 3)
Let’s look at the major and dominant side of triad soloing. To get a major triad, all we need to…
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How to Make Triad Soloing Work (Part 1)
This series of lessons is both a continuation of the How to (Finally) Learn Your Fretboard series, as well as…
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How to Solo Using One Scale Pattern (Part 2)
In the second part of this tutorial, we look at minor, dominant and other useful scales using the method we…
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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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The Memorization Trap
By far the quickest way to get stuck in a rut with your guitar playing is the memorization trap. What…
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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…