pentatonics
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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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Why Your Blues Solos All Sound the Same (And It’s Not Your Scales)
Record yourself playing a 12-bar blues. Not once — three choruses. Now listen back and ask yourself an honest question:…
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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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Easy Arabic Guitar Scales
In this lesson, I’ll show you how to take a complex idea – infusing your playing with Arabic guitar scales…
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How to Spice Up the Major Pentatonic Scale
There’s something about the major pentatonic scale that seems very dry to me, which can be a good thing because…
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Easy Lydian Dominant Scale Flavors
The Lydian Dominant Scale, also known as the Lydian b7 scale, is the fourth mode of the melodic minor. But…
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How to Achieve Pentatonic Scale Fluency
A lot of musicians draw parallels between learning music and learning languages, and I would equate fluent improvisation skills to…
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Stuck in a Pentatonic Rut? Try This!
It’s fairly common for intermediate players to get stuck in a pentatonic rut. The problem is usually not the pentatonic…
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My Alternative Pentatonics Concept
I have a fascination for the number 5 and everything that’s associated with it. In guitar terms this translates to…
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Mixolydian Modal Pentatonics
There are literally endless things you can do with pentatonic scales in music and especially on the guitar. Everybody loves…