improv
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Are You Actually Improvising? Take This Quick Test
Here’s a question that sounds like a trick and isn’t. When you take a solo, are you choosing the notes…
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The Advancing Guitarist by Mick Goodrick: What’s Actually In It, and How to Use It
There’s a specific thing that happens with this book. Someone mentions it in a thread about improvisation. Three people reply…
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Pentatonic Scale Alternatives on Guitar — New Sounds Without New Complexity
The minor pentatonic scale is one of the great gifts in music. Five notes, infinite phrasing possibilities, works over more…
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How to Connect Guitar Scale Positions (Without Learning More Patterns)
Every guide on connecting guitar scale positions tells you the same thing: learn all five boxes, then practise moving between…
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Which Guitar Scale System Should You Actually Learn?
Search “which guitar scale system should I learn” and you’ll find a hundred articles arguing that their system is the…
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The Best Looper Pedal for Practicing Your Soloing
Most looper pedal reviews are written for gigging musicians — stage performance, live layering, impressing a crowd. That’s a different…
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Extended Pentatonic Scales – No More Boxes
It’s common for guitarists to get stuck in pentatonic scale boxes every now and again, and while you can sound…
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Why You’re Still Struggling to Learn the Modes
There comes a time in every guitarist’s life when they feel the need to *drum roll* learn the modes. While…
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How to Practice Improvisation on Guitar
You may think learning scales, arpeggios and licks will make you a great improviser — and don’t get me wrong,…
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The Phrygian Dominant Scale – What To Do With It
The Phrygian dominant scale is a hidden gem in the modes of the harmonic minor scale, but we’re not going…