Mixing the Major and Minor Pentatonic Scale is a great way to start expanding how you solo. Most of the time this idea comes because you learn the pentatonic scales first and overlaying them on top of each other seems like an easy way to start expand ...
It happens to everyone... getting your fingers to do what the chord chart is telling you to do. Sometimes it's the stretch, sometimes it's the placement/order of your fingers. Regardless, getting our fingers to play that chord we're working on can be ...
Here's a list of terms, words and phrases with short definitions. I tried to make this list as thorough and complete as possible but it's inevitable I forgot some things. So I'll be adding to this throughout time. If you'd like to know what lesson vi ...
It's happened to all of us guitar players, we want to solo over something and we don't really know where to start. Where should we start? What key are we in? What scale should we use? It's all a lot of information and there are many ways to navigate ...
Phrase development is a big topic. One I'll only scratch the surface of now. My example today is going to be revolving around some blues licks and how we can see how we develop into each phrase. This takes to some practice but it's an invaluable tool ...
...and the major, minor, harmonic minor and modes as the "meat" of your playing. Yes, Pentatonics are not just for beginners, everyone uses them regardless of how advanced they get. What's great about our CAGED pentatonic shapes as they can really be ...
Have you ever thought about life before the internet? Life before radio even? How did musicians survive without Youtube showing them how to play? They played what they heard. How? By just tinkering around until they figured it out. Maybe they had ...
Practicing. What is it and how do you do it? I think developing good practicing habits and a good practicing schedule is a must. My practice schedule changes, as I am constantly working on new different things. Never be Stagnant I think one of t ...
Here I hope to start making sense of soloing over some of those chord progressions that have an odd chord smack dabb in the middle of it. I have another blog titled "How To Understand Weird Chord Changes" that talks about wrapping our heads around th ...
Golden Rule: Always start and end your scales and arpeggios on the root note. No, I don't want you to say you're playing a C scale, but have your first note of the position your playing in, to be a B. That wouldn't be a C scale because you're first ...
