In this short video I share my preference between three notes per string scales (3NPS scales) and CAGED scales.
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3NPS Guitar Scales Video Outline
0:00 - Intro
1:05 - My experience with 3NPS
2:26 - Where 3NPS falls apart
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Altered scales are great to use while improvising to create tension. This video is on how to use the altered scale in real music. You can do these exercises with any scale, not just altered.
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Weekly Lesson #102
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People have asked to see me practicing guitar while on my unicycle so this is a unicycle ride video celebrating my 100th lesson on this channel! This will get you excited about practicing guitar :)
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Altered scales. What are they? Also called the altered dominant scale or the super locrian scale, the altered scale is a mode of melodic minor & awesome for improvising with over dominant chords.
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Weekly Lesson #95
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Guitar fretboard diagrams are useful for learning. And sometimes we might want to make our own! In this lesson I review a free website that lets you make your own guitar fretboard diagrams.
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Weekly Lesson #94
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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.
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Money by Pink Floyd has an iconic intro riff that’s super fun to play on the guitar. In this lesson I teach the Money Pink Floyd guitar riff and how to practice for deep guitar fretboard knowledge.
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Weekly Lesson #83
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Melodic minor scale guitar patterns can be elusive compared to other scale types. This lesson covers melodic minor scale theory, all 5 melodic minor scale guitar patterns, & how to apply them.
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Weekly Lesson #82
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Harmonic minor scale guitar positions are important to learn if we want to nail soloing over chord changes in minor keys. Some say the harmonic minor scale is the 2nd most important scale.
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Weekly Lesson #81
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Major blues scale guitar shapes are less often used than the minor blues scale (what we call “the blues scale). These two blues scale types are modes of each other. Here’s how to distinguish them.
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Blues scale guitar positions allow us to play the blues scale ALL OVER the guitar fretboard instead of just in one spot. It takes some time to get the other positions down, but it’s worth it.
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Weekly Lesson #75
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