Hi there, It’s been a while but i’m back blogging!. Going to be upgrading my video setup soon so that sound and picture quality will be better also. For the next series of blogs i’m going to look at the 1st shape of the 5 essential scale types in each one. This one focuses on […]
Hi there, In this next chapter of guitar solo mastery, we’re going to look at a cool reciprocal run pattern you can use with your pentatonic scales. In many solos, you can often here lead guitarists do runs going down and back up the same group of notes. This pattern we’re going to go through […]
Hi there, In this blog we are going to look at a great 6 note legato pattern that you can use with all your pentatonic scales. In Pt.15 we looked at a very nice 9 note pattern with the major/natural minor scales, this is just a stripped down version for the pentatonic scales. This pattern […]
Hi there, In this next blog + video in helping you become great at lead improvisation we’re going to look at a variation of the fantastic groups of 3 exercise that we looked at in Pt.3. This exercise is great when used with the major/ natural minor scales. Let’s take the 1st shape of the G […]
Hi there, In this blog we’re going to look at another great way of spicing up your improvisation skills. Double stops (playing 2 notes at a time) can give you a variety of other options for riffs alongside just single note melodies. Hundreds of famous riffs have been written with double stops. It’s also a […]
Hi there, In our last blog we looked at a great way of getting to know your scales better by going up one shape and down the next with the minor pentatonic scale. Now you’ll want to do this with the major/natural minor scales. When you are improvising you’ll want to move freely between shapes […]
Hi there, When you are improvising, you’ll want to move freely between the various shapes. A great way of getting to know the shapes better is by learning how to go up one shape and down the next. When people practice their scales, most often they are simply just going up and down each individual […]
Hi there, Thanks again for reading the blogs – if you like them please share the links to your friends! The next chapter in this improv series talks about how to integrate Unison bends into your playing.Unison bends are used in millions of songs to provide a different type of bend to your standard semitone, […]
Hi there, So the next step in your quest to be an improv god is note skipping through your scales. Note skipping is where you play your first note of the scale, skip to the 3rd, come back to the 2nd note, skip to the 4th, come back to the 3rd and so on. It’s […]
Hi there, In the next part of this Improv series we’ll look at learning to play your major/minor scales on just 1 string. This is another excellent way to fully absorb your shapes and move about the neck freely. Also to helps to fully absorb the notes on the neck. To start with let’s get […]