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Phrygian Dominant Shred Patterns
Moving the Phrygian Dominant scale in a more horizontal fashion across the neck.
Picking Exercises To Melodic Phrases
Examples that will help strengthen your picking, constructed in a more musical fashion.
Connecting Scale Patterns
A great way to connect the five basic major scale patterns.
Know Your Roots
Great when learning modes - hear the sound of each mode over a tonal center.
Picking Exercises: Chromatic Sequential
Strengthen your upstrokes so they are as strong as your downstrokes.
Connecting Scales
If you know all of your scale patterns, but are not sure how to connect them, this lesson will help you.
Quarantine Lines
Stuck inside? Take advantage of the time and challenge yourself to get to the next level.
Ascending Shred Lines
Creative ways to move around the fretboard at a blazing fast speed.
Harmonic Major
This scale is most common in jazz, but can be applied to any style of music.
Outside Lines
Taking the diminished scale and incorporating it with a basic blues scale box.
Triad Arpeggio Sequences, Part 2
Even more ideas to spice up your arpeggio sequences by altering the order of the notes.
Triad Arpeggio Sequences
Time to build technique and spice up your arpeggio sequences by altering the order of the notes.
Scales: Combining Rhythmic Variations
Now, Mike mixes up the rhythms when practicing scales to make things that much more interesting.
Practicing Scales With Rhythmic Variation
Building your chops while making practice time more interesting and even, fun.
The Altered Scale
Mike digs a little deeper into the Altered scale, aka Super Locrian.
"All Alone" Solo Excerpts
Mike teaches soloing over chord changes with a track from his album, "The Fire Within".
"The Fire Within"
Mike has a new album, "The Fire Within". and breaks down a few of the notable tracks.
Harmonic Minor (Unlocking Sounds)
Mike delivers the keys to unlocking specific sounds, such as the Phrygian dominant mode, from the Harmonic Minor scale.
Triad Arpeggios
Gaining fluency with triad arpeggios will help your soloing and rhythm playing.
Chromatic Riffs and Lines
Mike shows you several ways to spice up your riffs, lines and solos with some chromatic passing tones.
Hanon Style, Scale Sequences
Mike teaches you scale sequences (in the Hanon style, adapted from piano) that are great for your dexterity and precision.
Harmonic Minor: Movable Patterns
Mike shows you moveable type patterns for the harmonic minor scale, and some ways you can get some fresh new modern type sounds.
Movable Picking Patterns
focusing on picking and moveable shapes that will help to create longer lines.
The Modes In One Position
Confused about the modes? Here is a way you can practice the modes that may help.
Picking: 3-String Picking Ideas
3-string picking ideas that are great for developing your picking, and to help create lines.
Picking
These 2-string scale fragment examples will increase your speed and your picking technique.
Constructing Lines With The 5th Intervals
Read about new ideas for using perfect 5ths in your playing.
Tremolo Picking Guitar Method For Unbelievable Speed
How to develop a lightning fast tremolo picking guitar technique.
Arpeggio Sequences
Here are Mike's technique to help spice up your solos, instead of just running up and down arpeggios.
Technical Muscial Examples From 'Chapters'
Mike Campese teaches you short snippets from some songs off his brand new album "Chapters".
Picking And Independence
These exercises and examples will help you to improve your finger independence as well as your picking.
Soloing: Creating Strong Emotions Over Chords
Tom Hess will help you make your guitar solos overflow with emotion,
Melodic Minor Shred Lines
Just by flatting the third you can develop a whole new shredding sound.
Maintaining Your Chops
Mike Campese reminds you that if you don't use it, you will surely lose it.
String Skipping
Mike Campese will help you build on your scales with his string skipping exercises.
Shredding With Position Shifts
Mike Campese is back to help you out of the box - the scale pattern box, that is.