How to Really Hear the Modes
You can find tons of stuff on modes right here on the blog, but I’d like to share this quick exercise which tests whether you’re […]
5 Free Udemy Guitar Courses That Aren’t for Beginners
Let’s face it, most free guitar courses are aimed at absolute beginners or those in their first year of playing. If you’re reading this blog […]
Leigh’s Left-hand Legato Workout
Legato is a great skill for guitar players to incorporate into their arsenal and comes in many forms; the word translates to “tied together” meaning […]
Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Easily Jazz Up Your Blues Soloing
It’s been a while since we’ve looked at blues soloing, so I thought I’d add to the Blues Soloing Tricks series of posts with a […]
The Most Versatile Yet Underused Picking Technique
What do Steve Morse, bluegrass and 10-year-old Japanese guitar prodigy Li-Sa-X have in common? The answer is that they’ve all mastered crosspicking, the most versatile […]
How Not to Get Lost When Improvising Over Little Wing
A common problem among guitarists is getting lost while improvising. There are many reasons for this, the most notorious one being an over-reliance on patterns. […]
10 Ways to Better Improvising
Sometimes all it takes is a suggestion or a new perspective to jump-start your improvisation skills or give your solos a new lease of life, […]
Two-Note-Per-String Major Scales and Modes
Here’s an interesting concept for you to try out. I remember playing around with it unintentionally when I first began to look at major scale […]
What Really Took My Playing to the Next Level
You hear this phrase a lot in guitar-related media, learning material and sales-type rhetoric – it’s the idea, or the promise that some kind of […]
Chords: How to Learn the Harmonized Major Scale (Part 2)
In Part 1 we looked at the basic theory behind the harmonized major scale and how to learn four sets of root position chords that […]