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Blues Soloing Tricks: The Blue Note

The blues note is of course the b5, and if you’ve been following this series of blog posts, you’ll find […]

This lesson follows on from the approach we looked at in Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Blend Major and Minor […]

In my opinion, the hallmark of good blues soloing is the ability to seamlessly blend major and minor scales/licks/runs to […]

This is a common problem among guitar players: they get very good at getting some great licks and runs from […]

In this series, we’re taking a look at what I like to call, ‘fretboard motion’, which is ways of moving […]

In Part 1, we looked at dividing the fretboard up into string pairs in order play horizontally up and down […]

If you take a closer look at John Scofield’s playing, you’ll see him play lines up and down the fretboard […]

I’m a huge fan of pentatonic scales, but not just the major and minor ones; there’s so much more you […]

Following on from the ideas we looked at in How to Crack Your Picking Code and An Alternative Route to […]

One of the fastest expanding areas of guitar and music education is of course the online variety, taking advantage of […]