Soloing
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Are You Actually Improvising? Take This Quick Test
Here’s a question that sounds like a trick and isn’t. When you take a solo, are you choosing the notes…
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The Best Looper Pedal for Practicing Your Soloing
Most looper pedal reviews are written for gigging musicians — stage performance, live layering, impressing a crowd. That’s a different…
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How to Practice Improvisation on Guitar
You may think learning scales, arpeggios and licks will make you a great improviser — and don’t get me wrong,…
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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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My Alternative Pentatonics Concept
I have a fascination for the number 5 and everything that’s associated with it. In guitar terms this translates to…
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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 2)
In Part 1, I mentioned that 4-note clusters are actually better for learning triad soloing than triads themselves. This is…