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Sweeping Pentatonics, Part 1
A very challenging, but rewarding technique, with guitarist Mick Neil.
Getting The Most Out Of Your Scales, Part 2
Mike Campese with more examples of getting many unique sounds out of just one scale.
Getting The Most Out Of Your Scales
Mike Campese demonstrates that you can get many unique sounds out of just one scale.
Picking Techniques From "The New"
Mike Campese blazes through exercises from his all new CD, entitled "The New".
Artful Picking
Mike Campese opens 2005 with a great workout for your pickin' hand.
Intervalic Lines, Part 2
More ideas on how you can add a really cool twist to your playing.
Paganini, Part 2
The second part of taking a well-known violin caprice to the six-string.
Fresh New Sounds With Triads, Part 2
Mike Campese again turns the tried and true triad into an improvisational treat.
Fresh New Sounds With Triads
Mike Campese turns the tried and true triad into an improvisational treat.
Shred Licks
Mike Campese shifts into high gear with these high tech shred licks.
Modal Interchange
Mike Campese is back with powerful compositional tool (and a play out of Satriani's playbook).
Modal Arpeggios
Mike Campese is back with more modal mayhem.
The Modes, Part 3: Modal Progressions
Knowing the modes, and putting them to good use, are two different things. Here's part three of Mike Campese's multi-part lesson.
Concepts For Playing "Outside": Part 2
Add some excitement to your playing by playing outside the scale. This time: the diminished scale.
Harmonizing Scales
Constructing your own chord voicings and increasing your chord vocabulary.
Making Sequences Work For You
Sean Mercer returns with ways to help you break out of the 3 and 4 note sequence rut.
The Modes, Part 2
Complete understanding of the modes has eluded many a guitarist. Here's part two of Mike Campese's multi-part lesson.
Concepts For Playing "Outside": Part 1
Add some excitement to your playing by playing outside the scale.
The Right Touch: Finger Tapping
Sean Mercer teaches you a single right-hand finger tapping technique.
Picking Up "Danger Girl"
How to write something you cannot play, and then playing it.
Tapping Arpeggios in Quintuplets
Applying time-shifting to enhance tapped arpeggios.
Sweep Picking Made Easy
Getting the left hand to keep up with the right hand sweep through hand synchronization.
Developing Scale Patterns
Sooner or later, you'll want to make your solos more exciting. Start by making up new scale sequences.
Sleigh Ride
Guitarist Jeff Scheetz' own blistering version of this holiday chestnut.
Soloing Outside
How you can add something different to your solos to sound a little more 'out'.
Combining Pentatonic Shapes
More ways to master the fretboard through the use of the pentatonic scale.
Hybrid Picking Carrots and Grapes
How to develop the ability to use right hand figers along with the pick.
Learning The Neck: Major Scales
Learning the fretboard through scales by Mike Campese.
Arpeggio Licks
Mike returns with some fun arpeggio licks he uses in his own playing.
Chromatic Lines
Mike returns with some ideas on how to incorporate half-tones and other non-scale notes into your lines.
Musical Segments And Coordination, Part 2
Mike returns with the second part of his column on coordinating your hands, while developing speed and accuracy.
Musical Segments And Coordination, Part 1
Mike is back to help you coordinate your hands, while developing speed and accuracy.
Creative Chording, Part 2
Mike is back with a follow up lesson to help you work the neck to squeeze more creativity out of your chording.
Creative Chording
Mike is back to teach you to work the neck to squeeze more creativity out of your chording.
Paganini
Taking a violin caprice to the six-string.
Intervalic Lines
How to add a really cool twist to your playing.