Articulation is the term we use in music for the how you play notes. Scales are great for learning what notes can be played, but how you play them transforms bland notes into musical ideas. In this …
Creating Phrases
Creating Phrases from musical patterns is like making sentences out of words. You have to know words in order to create a sentence, and you have to know musical patterns to make musical phrases. …
Connecting Fretboard Positions
Connecting Fretboard Positions: In this lesson I address a question from one of my viewers who is trying to work out how to better connect the different positions on the fretboard. Despite knowing …
Altered Scale
This lesson is an introduction to the Altered Scale. It is very brief, but is intended to give you a "positional" framework to use as a starting point for improvising with this scale. What is the …
Learning To Improvise Over Chord Changes
Learning to improvise over chord changes is a long process! It is very challenging and can be exceedingly frustrating. The basic understanding of how to improvise is hard enough, then when you through …
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How to Solo Melodically Using Motifs
You may have heard, or read, somebody giving advice to new improvisers that goes something like this, "just play melodically" or "sing what you play". While these vague suggestions do indeed …
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