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 ...
The first note/phrase of your solo sets the pace for what you're going to do throughout it. Here are some things that can help make each solo stick out a bit more. Which Note Should I Choose? Ahh.. this is probably the easiest to talk about. A note ...
Feel? If we were to break it down, what is it? Can you develop feel? Yes. Some develop feel at a young age. Others don't have that natural tendency and have to consciously work on it. I think one of the biggest indicators are those that learn s ...
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 ...
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 ...
