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Improvisation Intermediate Plateau Intervals Melodic Soloing Phrasing Picking Techniques Soloing

Soloing by Numbers: Improve Your Phrasing and Your Alternate Picking

October 14, 2016April 21, 2025

I can’t remember where I saw this but it’s a great exercise for improving your phrasing, as well as getting […]

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Technique

Spice Up Your Soloing with the Finger Roll

October 7, 2016April 21, 2025

If you’ve learned your scales and they’ve ended up sounding like… scales, there are a number of things you can […]

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Jazz Guitar Mike Stern Soloing Soloing Over Chord Changes

Soloing Over Changes: How to Be Melodic

October 5, 2016April 21, 2025

The transition from pentatonic soloing to fusion or jazz improvisation can be a depressing time for guitarists as the good […]

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Guitar Licks Robben Ford Steve Morse

How to Raid the Google Lick Library

October 2, 2016April 21, 2025

As guitarists we spend a great deal of time learning and honing our scales in order to improvise, but more […]

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Creativity Exotic Scales Improvisation

Get Into the Hungarian Minor Scale

September 27, 2016April 21, 2025

I’m a big fan of the hungarian minor scale because like most exotic scales, it steps outside the stable harmony […]

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Notes On The Neck

How to Learn the Notes on the Neck in 12 Days

September 26, 2016April 21, 2025

I know it sounds like a gimmicky, clickbait title but if you’ve got 12 days to spare, I’ve come up […]

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Dorian Mode Modes

Make Music with the Modes: The Dorian Scale

September 21, 2016April 21, 2025

A while ago we looked at how to make music with the Lydian scale in this lesson, so let’s continue […]

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David Gilmour Improvisation Melodic Soloing Pentatonics Phrasing Soloing

How to Approach a Guitar Solo like David Gilmour

September 16, 2016April 21, 20251 Comment

I’ve never really been into learning other people’s guitar solos note-for-note, so you won’t find a whole lot of those […]

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Improvisation Ruts Soloing

The Odd Time Cure for Mindless Guitar Soloing

September 15, 2016April 21, 2025

If you’ve been playing for a while you’ve probably gotten your lead playing to the point where you can pretty […]

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Pentatonics Scale Patterns Scales Unorthodox Guitar

How NOT to Sound Like Everyone Else

September 3, 2016April 21, 2025

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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