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Blues Blues Soloing

Blues Soloing Tricks: How Not to Run Out of Ideas

February 2, 2016April 21, 2025

If you find you’re running out of ideas when soloing over a blues, then you absolutely must learn blues scales […]

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Blues Blues Soloing

Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Always Land on the Right Notes

February 1, 2016April 21, 2025

I think every guitarist should learn to play the blues at some point on their musical journey. It has so […]

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Guitarists and the Improvisational Mindset

January 22, 2016April 21, 2025

Soloing is one of the main attractions of the guitar, and something that we guitarists spend endless hours trying to […]

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How to Get Past the Intermediate Plateau on Guitar

January 21, 2016April 21, 2025

A lot of guitarists get stuck on the intermediate plateau, some for years, some even give up playing at this […]

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12 Quick and Easy Scale Patterns

January 18, 2016April 21, 2025

The top three strings of the guitar in standard tuning (GBE) present a unique set of interval locations that is […]

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Interview with Tyler Larson – Creator of the Guitar Super System Course

January 7, 2016April 21, 2025

Back in May last year we reviewed Level 1 of Tyler Larson’s Guitar Super System Course, which is an interactive […]

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7 Ingredients for a Tasteful Guitar Solo

January 6, 2016April 21, 2025

Once in a while you see a guitarist perform, not necessarily a well-known one, and the consensus is that the […]

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How to Play What You Hear in Your Head

January 3, 2016April 21, 2025

The holy grail of guitar improvisation, or improvisation on any instrument for that matter, is to play what you’re hearing […]

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Complicated Chords with Memorable Shapes

December 17, 2015April 21, 2025

You might be somewhat put-off by learning the so-called advanced chords with big, scary names like Cmaj13(#11) and so on, […]

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Understanding Modes on Guitar

December 16, 2015April 21, 2025

Figuring out the modes on guitar is a bitch. I remember it took me a while grasp the incredibly simple […]

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