Guitar Technique
Working Through The Seven Modes
Do you still think the Aeolian mode is a ship from Star Trek? Are you comfortable discussing Mixolydian and Phrygian modes in mixed company? Tony Young cuts to the heart of modes.
Going Beyond Reality
Don't let your current concept of reality dominate your guitar playing.
A Slight Disagreement
An original work (part one of two preludes) composed for solo electric guitar, in tabulature and standard notation.
Practice With The Masters
Stop practicing with boring scales and start testing your fingers with melodic 'riffs' from Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and more.
Prelude (from Partita #1 for Solo Guitar)
An original work composed for solo classical guitar, in tabulature and standard notation.
Thinking Out of the Barre
Learn some substitutions for those tried and true barre chords. How the knowledge of triads can help you come up with original sounding guitar parts.
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
An arrangement of the Tchaikovsky piece for solo guitar, in tabulature and standard notation.
Call-and-Response Practicing
Call-and-response practicing to enhance your phrasing and composing.
Rhythm 'N' Leads
Stop strumming those simple barre chords, and embellish your chordal work with licks and phrases that blur the distiction between rhythm and lead guitar playing.
Rut Busters!
Stuck recycling the same licks and riffs? Dig yourself out of your guitar playing rut and rediscover the instrument you love.
Arpeggiated Progressions
Tips for playing arpeggiated chord progressions using string skipping.
Applications for Delay
Some creative uses of digital delay when writing or recording.
Short Lick Primer, Vol. 2
More short lick ideas to kick-start your technique.
Roll Your Own Pentatonics
Break free of your limiting beliefs about pentatonic scales.
Short Lick Primer, Vol. 1
A number of short lick ideas designed to kick-start your technique.
The Ascension
Nowhere to go with ascending licks but up? Dan McAvinchey confronts the problem and gives you several ideas you can use today. Don't just take the easy way out and start descending either.
You Can Be Like "Satch"
Emulating your heroes is fine, but consider how far should you take it.