improv – Page 7 – Unlock the Guitar

Soloing Without Scales

June 4, 2016

If you were to learn how to improvise without using scales, how would you go about it? This the was…

March 14, 2016

I first saw this on Allan Holdsworth’s REH DVD, where he recommends learning scales using four notes per string instead…

March 12, 2016

Getting your head around intervals is a great way to start to take melodic control of your solos i.e. choosing…

February 1, 2016

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

January 22, 2016

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

January 18, 2016

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

January 6, 2016

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

December 13, 2015

The first Led Zep album I bought was Houses of the Holy. If you haven’t got it I suggest you…

December 7, 2015

I touched on how to connect scale patterns briefly at the end of this post a while back, so I…

November 12, 2015

Let’s face it, learning scales is hard work; there are just way too many of them, and how do you…