Scale Patterns
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How to Make Any Scale Pattern More Musical
As guitarists, we tend to practice scales and scale patterns in a non-discriminate way; what I mean by this is…
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Guitar Hacks: Making the Connection Between Chords and Scales
This little guitar hack is particularly useful if you’re at that stage in your learning where you want to know…
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How to Simplify Any Scale and Improvise With It
Let’s face it, improvisation of any kind on guitar is hard but if you work at it, you’ll be rewarded.…
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A Quick Way to Add Chromatics to 3NPS Scales
If you’re a fan of three-note-per-string (3NPS) scales, and have gotten all the patterns down, you might want to add…
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Fretboard Motion: The Warp Zone (Part 3)
In this series, we’re taking a look at what I like to call, ‘fretboard motion’, which is ways of moving…
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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 Problem with Shapes and Patterns on Guitar
It’s no secret that the guitar lends itself well to creating visual information such as chord shapes, scale boxes and…
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How to Make Guitar Scales More Manageable
If you look at the fretboard of a fairly well-worn guitar like the one in the picture, you’ll notice that…
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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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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…