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From Bedroom to Stage: How to Start Performing Guitar Live

Introduction Playing guitar alone in your bedroom is where most of us start. It’s safe, comfortable, and the only audience […]

It’s common for guitarists to get stuck in pentatonic scale boxes every now and again, and while you can sound […]

There comes a time in every guitarist’s life when they feel the need to *drum roll* learn the modes. While […]

You may think learning scales, arpeggios, licks and whatnot will make you a great improviser and don’t get me wrong–these […]

In this lesson, I’ll show you how to take a complex idea – infusing your playing with Arabic guitar scales […]

Chord tone soloing is one of those things that either eludes guitarists, or they shy away from it in favor […]

If you haven’t checked out Udemy, it’s a platform where you can learn pretty much anything at your own pace. […]

The phrygian dominant scale is a hidden gem in the modes of the harmonic minor scale, but we’re not going […]

As guitarists, we tend to play in a linear fashion by moving from one string to the next, and while […]

When Allan Holdsworth played chords, it could look downright bemusing and somewhat physically demanding; what’s more, how did he even […]