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Being in tune, playing in time, and having good technique is really important.
Boldly go where you as a guitar player have never gone before.
Barre chords - they can be tricky to learn!
Letting notes ring can do wonders for your compositions.
Exercises that will challenge you to build a deeper connection with your guitar.
A little technique can go a long way if you know how to apply it creatively.
Moving the Phrygian Dominant scale in a more horizontal fashion across the neck.
Get the most you can out of the rehearsal time you have scheduled.
Here is a minor cadence used in hundreds of Real Book tunes.
Examples that will help strengthen your picking, constructed in a more musical fashion.
A great way to connect the five basic major scale patterns.
Great when learning modes - hear the sound of each mode over a tonal center.
Strengthen your upstrokes so they are as strong as your downstrokes.
If you know all of your scale patterns, but are not sure how to connect them, this lesson will help you.
Resolving to the 3rd of the chords in a chromatic fashion.
Stuck inside? Take advantage of the time and challenge yourself to get to the next level.
When used correctly, guide tones outline the flavor of the chords you’re improvising over.
Creative ways to move around the fretboard at a blazing fast speed.
This scale is most common in jazz, but can be applied to any style of music.
Taking the diminished scale and incorporating it with a basic blues scale box.
More about the chords, triads, and arpeggios that are built from the major scale.
Even more ideas to spice up your arpeggio sequences by altering the order of the notes.
Time to build technique and spice up your arpeggio sequences by altering the order of the notes.
Gaining knowledge of all the chords, triads, and arpeggios that are built from the major scale.
Now, Mike mixes up the rhythms when practicing scales to make things that much more interesting.
Showing the benefits of music education, and how it positively impacts the lives of students.
Building your chops while making practice time more interesting and even, fun.
Altering the sound of the pentatonic scale by plugging in an additional note.
Mike digs a little deeper into the Altered scale, aka Super Locrian.
Simon takes a close look at the use of chords in this popular tuning.
An endless variety of melodic phrases can be derived from the permutation of chord tones.
Mike teaches soloing over chord changes with a track from his album, "The Fire Within".
Mike has a new album, "The Fire Within". and breaks down a few of the notable tracks.
Learn the sophisticated, awe inspired, and flat out mind-blowing style of percussive acoustic guitar.
Additional rhythmic variations to practice using the pentatonic scale as the vehicle.
Mike delivers the keys to unlocking specific sounds, such as the Phrygian dominant mode, from the Harmonic Minor scale.
Deepen your knowledge of the Minor Pentatonic scale, free yourself from the “5 boxes slavery”, expand your phrasing vocabulary and stimulate your creativity.
Deepen your knowledge of the Minor Pentatonic scale, free yourself from the “5 boxes slavery”, expand your phrasing vocabulary and stimulate your creativity.
Rosocha teaches permutations - altered scale shapes based on fretboard position.
Gaining fluency with triad arpeggios will help your soloing and rhythm playing.
Play great songs such as “Landslide”, "Dust In The Wind" and "The Boxer".
Slide guitar offers a very cool and unique sound that cannot be emulated any other way.