Scales
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4 World Class Tips for Practicing Scales
We all know that one of the biggest challenges faced by guitarists, after putting in the hours to learn all…
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How Well Do You Know Your Scales?
If you think you know your scales, think again – your knowledge may be incomplete. A lot of players equate…
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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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Fretboard Motion: Horizontal Scales (Part 1)
If you take a closer look at John Scofield’s playing, you’ll see him play lines up and down the fretboard…
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The Advancing Improviser: Zonal Improvisation on Guitar
Following on the from the lesson on Parallel Thinking, I thought it would be useful to take a deeper look…
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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…