Scales
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The Holdsworthian Approach to Diminished Scales
In honor of the passing of one of my most influential guitar heroes, Allan Holdsworth, and perhaps one of the…
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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…
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The 2 Position Guitar Scale System: An Overview
In actual fact, the 2 Position Guitar Scale System was the first book I wrote on the subject of scales,…
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How NOT to Sound Like Everyone Else
You’ve probably had the ‘pleasure’ of being in a guitar shop and hearing someone noodling in A minor or E…
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Scale Patterns, Optical Illusions, and the ‘Breaking Out’ Myth
Our latest eBook, ‘Shred Guitar Mechanics: Fretboard Dexterity through 4NPS Scales’, is the product of extensive research into the benefits…
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How to Hack the CAGED System
It all started back in Music College in the early 2000s, at the ACM in Guildford (UK) to be precise,…
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Make Music with the Modes: The Lydian Scale
If you’ve ever heard ‘Flying in a Blue Dream’ by Joe Satriani, or ‘Answers’ by Steve Vai, you’ll be aware…
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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…