scales
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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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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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What Scales Did Allan Holdsworth Actually Use? (The Truth About His “Outside” Sound)
Ask the internet what scales Allan Holdsworth used and you’ll get three kinds of useless answer. The first is “everything”…
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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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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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Ear Training for Guitar: Scales
Ear training, especially for guitar, is probably the least interesting thing to do on the instrument, though perhaps one of…
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12 More Quick and Easy Scale Patterns
A while ago I took advantage of the top three strings of the guitar in standard tuning to come up…