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How to Dorian-Up a Blues

The Dorian scale makes for an interesting twist you can use in a 12-bar blues. Yes, that’s right, you can […]

There are literally endless things you can do with pentatonic scales in music and especially on the guitar. We all […]

What we need to do now is approach our arpeggios, scales and modes through formulas instead of any kind of […]

Let’s look at the major and dominant side of triad soloing. To get a major triad, all we need to […]

In Part 1, I mentioned that 4-note clusters are actually better for learning triad soloing than triads themselves. This is […]

This series of lessons is both a continuation of the How to (Finally) Learn Your Fretboard series, as well as […]

If you’ve been playing or studying modes for a while now, you might have overlooked the Phrygian mode in favor […]

I was going to call this lesson something like, ‘the 28 most important guitar chords to know’, because knowing the […]

This is a great one to easily generate a Lydian sound over a major 7 chord by using none other […]

If you’re still with me, we’ll dedicate this part to summarizing and consolidating what we’ve learned so far into a […]