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3 Note Per String Scales Legato

Leigh’s Left-hand Legato Workout

May 31, 2018April 21, 2025

Legato is a great skill for guitar players to incorporate into their arsenal and comes in many forms; the word […]

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Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Easily Jazz Up Your Blues Soloing

May 11, 2018April 21, 2025

It’s been a while since we’ve looked at blues soloing, so I thought I’d add to the Blues Soloing Tricks […]

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The Most Versatile Yet Underused Picking Technique

May 7, 2018April 21, 2025

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 […]

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How Not to Get Lost When Improvising Over Little Wing

April 28, 2018April 21, 2025

A common problem among guitarists is getting lost while improvising. There are many reasons for this, the most notorious one […]

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10 Game-Changing Soloing Tips for Guitarists

April 19, 2018April 21, 2025

Sometimes all it takes is a suggestion or a new perspective to jump-start your improvisation skills or give your solos […]

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Two-Note-Per-String Major Scales and Modes

April 10, 2018April 21, 2025

Here’s an interesting concept for you to try out. I remember playing around with it unintentionally when I first began […]

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What Really Took My Playing to the Next Level

April 3, 2018April 21, 2025

You hear this phrase a lot in guitar-related media, learning material and sales-type rhetoric – it’s the idea, or the […]

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How to Learn the Harmonized Major Scale (Part 2)

March 24, 2018April 21, 2025

In Part 1 we looked at the basic theory behind the harmonized major scale and how to learn four sets […]

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How to Learn the Harmonized Major Scale (Part 1)

March 23, 2018April 21, 2025

A great way to learn chords and chord progressions is to learn them in context, whether it be a song […]

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Diatonic Harmony: Soloing Over Chord Progressions

March 18, 2018April 21, 20251 Comment

Knowing what scales to use over a given chord progression was always shrouded in mystery for me until I understood […]

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