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Improvising on Guitar - Soloing & CONNECTING SCALES blues related fretboard mapping improvisation jazz guitar lead guitar practice strategy scales Jul 20, 2021

Guitar soloing & Improvising on guitar in general is tricky business. We often find ourselves “stuck” in scale positions one at a time. This lesson is about connecting scales when improvising on guitar.

FREE PDF: Top 3 Pentatonic Scale Patterns for more melodic soloing

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Golden Practice Advice + Happy Birthday Guitar Arrangement classical guitar fingerstyle guitar mindset practice strategy Dec 15, 2020

Don’t miss this golden practice advice about deliberate practice and consistency. Also, get my FREE Happy Birthday Guitar Fingerstyle Arrangement: FREE PDF

Sound Guitar Lessons turns 1 this week!

Exactly one year ago this week I posted my first lesson video.

To celebrate I decided to take...

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144 Chords Up the Neck of the Guitar (chords series, Ep. 7) chords how to learn guitar chords series practice strategy technique Dec 01, 2020

 This lesson is about how to play chords up the neck of the guitar. It will teach you how to take all the major and minor triad chords and play them each in six different places up the neck—a total of 144 chords.

 

 

Can you play single chords up the neck of the guitar in at...

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My Best Guitar Technique Advice After 15 Years of Teaching (this will change how you practice) practice strategy technique video lesson Dec 24, 2019

Technique is standing between us and everything we ever want to play on the guitar. 
 
We should all be dedicating at least a small portion of our practice time to technique. If we improve our technical abilities then learning all the fun stuff gets WAY easier.
 
But what should...
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