14 December 2009
A lot of people has heard of the saying “Practice Makes Perfect”, and that is the largest lie I’ve ever heard. Practice makes permanent, not perfect. You practice the incorrect way for 20 years, you are going to play the incorrect way for the next 20 years. My goal in this post is to give you some [...]
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13 December 2009
Music theory is a subject that still intimidates even the best players, but it shouldn’t. I used to reckon that if I wanted to be a professional player, then I would have to learn how to sight-read sheet music. Well I establish out that’s not the truth. Now it is vital to have a vital [...]
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12 December 2009
Your tone determines your greatness. If you have fantastic tone, then you really don’t have to be the best guitarist in the world, but you’ll get respect. Guitarist are on a by no means ending search for THE tone. Even the rock greats like Clapton, are constantly changing their guitars, effects, amps, anything to make that slight [...]
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11 December 2009
The pentatonic is THE scale when it comes down to soloing. 90% of the lick you here are based off the pentatonic and it’s the simplest scale to learn. The pentatonic scale consist of only five core notes, and the best part is you don’t even have to know what the notes are. It’s a scale [...]
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10 December 2009
If you’ve been playing solos for any amount of time you know how simple it is to get stuck in the pentatonic rut. They call it a box scale for a reason. You take five core notes, and decades of guitarist playing every combination of those notes doable, and you can see why coming up with [...]
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09 December 2009
In our last post we covered how to add the Aeolian scale to your pentatonic to make for very simple culture and instant application of the new scales. The Aeolian scale is the untreated minor scale. Minor scales and chords have a darker, sadder feel. Now let’s just into the Dorian scale, which has a [...]
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