One of the best things to solo better is not learning a new scale, arpeggio or lick rather let your ear decide where you want to go. Take a listen to some of the most memorable solos of all time, what makes them so memorable? The ability to hum them, ...
The CAGED System is a tool that helps you visualize the fretboard. The idea of it is to take open chord shapes and base fretted chord shapes, arpeggio shapes and scale shapes around the open chord shapes. We connect them all by their roots notes in t ...
Are you ever at a point in your guitar playing that you're just not sure what the next step is? The best thing to do is start transcribing and learning songs! When learning a new song/solo try to pinpoint what makes that song/solo stick out to you. ...
I call my theory video series "Usable Guitar Theory" for a reason. I ignore stuff that may be relevant in a college theory course, but not very applicable to a majority of the music most play. The vii diminished chord is a perfect example of somethin ...
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 ...
Are you a budding guitarist? Might have only been playing for a few months, a year or not at all? Here are some starting points at working through my website. It's nearly impossible to accurately assess where you're at without hearing you, so these a ...
So you've been playing guitar for a little while but not sure where to go next? Here are some starting points to get you rolling and get you over the next hump. It’s nearly impossible to accurately assess where you’re at without hearing you, so these ...
Have you been playing for awhile, understand and are familiar with chords, arpeggios, major and minor scales and have developed a voice in your guitar playing, but looking for something new? Here's a guideline to introduce you to some things that mig ...
