11 Questions about Modes Answered! We want to you better understand the modes, and how you can use them for your own songs, compositions, and improvisations, helping you become better, a more unique player! With that said, let’s get started! We gathered up all the questions most students on the internet ask about the modes,…
Understanding Major 7th Chords What a confusing mess music theory is! For a beginner, there really is just a big minefield of stuff to understand and absorb. Like a foreign language, first you need to understand just the simple idea of reading music, which students can struggle with for a long time, then….the theory of…
Repeating Melodic Sequences Using Six Note Sequences with Repeating Motives In this article we will be focusing our attention to using sequences with repeating motives. If you are unsure how 6 note sequences work, please read our past articles here, here, part 3, and part 4 here. 6 note sequences are a great way to…
How to use Chord Tones to outline a solo FAST! In this lesson we are going to show how to use Chord Tones to quickly outline a solo. This is a very effective way to generate ideas for a solo. By using the materials in this lesson, you will find that ‘starting from scratch’ on…
Assessment lessons – The First Step Forward The internet is flooded with questions and answers. Some true, some false. Entire websites are built trying to answer guitar specific questions, more forums are created that try to correct or dispel the questions, and on and on. We avoid that by directly addressing the specific student. An…
Making The Most With What You Know: Part 2 To continue from the last article, we’re going to check out some more licks, and how to start practicing them with purpose. The hardest part of learning new material is how to integrate it into your playing thoughtlessly. It should slowly become second nature, like…
Making the Most with what you know: Today we’ll be showing a few examples of how to take a single idea, and start using it in licks you already know. Although this example is primarily for Jazz, the concept can be applied to just about anything. The concept here is to take a new idea…
Major 7th Phrasing Part 2 Check out part 1 if you have any questions about the theory and basic approach to these exercises. Check our our video showing all of the exercises from part one and part two here: https://youtu.be/YVstW7o3v6I When practicing these on your own, the easy way to think about applying them is…
Major 7th Phrasing Part 1 In this article we’re going to talk about using major 7th chords over minor chords, and minor chord progressions. We’ll talk a little about the theory, how to apply it, and provide some examples. There is also a short video of each example https://youtu.be/YVstW7o3v6I take a look and listen, it’ll help give…
Technical Mastery is Foreign Language Mastery Understanding music, being creative, improvising, reading a chart, knowing your fret board. It’s all akin to a language. When you study a language, there is a path to mastery. With music, it is similar. Let’s look at some examples, and apply to foreign language. A student wants to be able to use the…