Month: February 2015

Guitar Solos – Pt.7 – Major/Minor scale bends

Hi there, Thanks for reading my blogs, feel free to ask questions or suggest a subject matter you are having issues with. Our next part of this improv series focuses on pitch bends using the major and minor scales. The previous blog centered on the essential bends of the pentatonic scales. Remember the pentatonic scales […]

Guitar Solos – Pt.6 – Pentatonic bends

Hi there, Thanks again for reading my blogs, feel good about spreading the word if you have found them useful. So the next few blogs are going to really get stuck into pitch bends with the minor pentatonic scale, then move onto using them in the major and minor scales. Pitch bends are a really […]

Guitar Solos – Pt.5 – String skipping, hammer on’s and pull off’s

Hi there, Thanks again for reading my blogs, if you’ve found them useful feel good about recommending other guitarists to read the blog. So on part 5 of the Improv series we’re going to look at integrating String Skipping, Hammer on’s and pull off’s into your scale exercises. So far we’ve looked at learning your […]

Guitar Solos – Pt.4 – Groups of 4

Hi there, Thanks for reading my blogs,  So far in this improv series we’ve learned the essential scales that you’ll want to use to improvise with. The last blog introduced a great exercise to integrate with the scales in order to start randomizing the scales. One of the challenges of improvising is to not sound […]

12 Bar Blues – Bass triplet patterns Pt. 2

Hi there, In this second bass blues blog, we’ll expand on Pt 1 by adding groups of triplets to the original 3 patterns. What I’ve done below is simply take the same progressions and randomly inserted triplets in amongst the various rhythms. This will help you vary your rhythms and improve your timing. Practice these […]

12 bar blues – Bass triplet patterns Pt.1

Hi there,Thanks for taking the time to read my blogs 🙂 Feel good about posting comments / questions, any other subject matters that people would like me to blog on. This blog (and the next one) will help beginner bass players to really start to mix up your 12 bar blues patterns with different rhythms. […]

Learn the notes quickly on the Bass fretboard!

Hi there, In order to maximize your playing abilities on the bass guitar you’ll want to learn the notes on the fretboard, On a standard 6 string guitar, there are 6 patterns that are useful for locating all of 1 particular note on every string. On the bass guitar we can use 4 distinct patterns. […]