Guitar Technique

A look at ways to create scales that are not taught, but invented.

Mike returns with some ideas on how to incorporate half-tones and other non-scale notes into your lines.

Fingerstylist Steve Pappas arranges a beautiful Irish ballad for guitar.

A bunch of ways to spice up our old pal: the Dorian mode.

How to play the same rhythm-melodic sequence on the same beat, starting on a different sixteenth each time.

Neo-classical guitarist Tom Hess teaches you the important aspects of a good string shake.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas offers the benefits of a good review program in your practice regimen.

You need to get `out` more, well, at least your playing does.

Mike returns with the second part of his column on coordinating your hands, while developing speed and accuracy.

Another fistful of double arpeggio ideas.