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3 Music Courses Every Guitarist Should Take

September 7, 2018April 21, 2025

As guitarists we tend to focus on guitar-specific things such as learning licks, riffs, technique and the accumulation of gear. […]

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How to Approach Scales in Your First Few Years of Playing

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How to Get Out of Any Guitar Rut

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If you’re committed to learning the guitar, it’s inevitable that you’re going to get into a rut from time to […]

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Veevar Guitar – A New Option for Guitar Students AND Teachers

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If you want to learn guitar online there are a plethora of options these days; and with technology playing an […]

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Diatonic Arpeggios You Can Really Use (Part 3)

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If you’ve been following this series, you can probably guess how we’re going to form eleventh arpeggios. If you haven’t, […]

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Diatonic Arpeggios You Can Really Use (Part 2)

July 9, 2018April 21, 2025

In Part 1, we looked at a way to pull arpeggios out of scales by looking at the bigger picture […]

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Diatonic Arpeggios You Can Really Use (Part 1)

July 1, 2018April 21, 2025

Truth be told, I always found arpeggios very challenging to learn and ended up trying to force them into my […]

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Monster 4NPS Scale Runs without the Monster Stretches

June 26, 2018April 21, 2025

I’ve been a huge fan of 4NPS (four-note-per-string) scales ever since I first saw them on the Allan Holdsworth REH […]

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How to Really Hear the Modes

June 5, 2018April 21, 2025

You can find tons of stuff on modes right here on the blog, but I’d like to share this quick […]

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5 Free Udemy Guitar Courses That Aren’t for Beginners

June 4, 2018April 21, 2025

Let’s face it, most free guitar courses are aimed at absolute beginners or those in their first year of playing. […]

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