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Sequence And Rhythmic Variation
Additional rhythmic variations to practice using the pentatonic scale as the vehicle.
Harmonic Minor (Unlocking Sounds)
Mike delivers the keys to unlocking specific sounds, such as the Phrygian dominant mode, from the Harmonic Minor scale.
How to Play Stone Mob's "Murder Town" Solo
Deepen your knowledge of the Minor Pentatonic scale, free yourself from the β5 boxes slaveryβ, expand your phrasing vocabulary and stimulate your creativity.
Minor Pentatonic Scale: Free Yourself From The Five Boxes
Deepen your knowledge of the Minor Pentatonic scale, free yourself from the β5 boxes slaveryβ, expand your phrasing vocabulary and stimulate your creativity.
Seeing Shapes and Patterns
Rosocha teaches permutations - altered scale shapes based on fretboard position.
Triad Arpeggios
Gaining fluency with triad arpeggios will help your soloing and rhythm playing.
Play Thousands Of Songs With The Clawhammer Fingerpicking Pattern
Play great songs such as βLandslideβ, "Dust In The Wind" and "The Boxer".
Learn The Technique Of Slide Guitar And Take Your Playing To A Whole New Level
Slide guitar offers a very cool and unique sound that cannot be emulated any other way.
Four Keys To Making An Effective Guitar Practice Schedule
Anyone (including yourself) can learn to develop creativity by using the proven methods and strategies for reaching this goal.
Chromatic Riffs and Lines
Mike shows you several ways to spice up your riffs, lines and solos with some chromatic passing tones.
Awesome Sounding Fingerpicking Blues Arrangements On Your Acoustic Guitar
A technique that allows you to play both the melody and accompaniment parts of a blues tune at the same time.
Quoting The Melody Of Tunes
Melodies are what stick in the listeners mind and convey passion and emotion: creating coherence in your solos.
String Crossing Exercises
These exercises will help you to focus on string crossing with alternate picking, and also to help you develop left/right hand synchronization, speed and stamina.
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.
Sweep Arpeggios - For Any Occasion
Chris takes you through every inversion on string-set G-B-E, allowing you to bust one out when called upon to do so.
Picking: 3-String Picking Ideas
3-string picking ideas that are great for developing your picking, and to help create lines.
Soloing With Open Strings On Guitar, Part 1
How to create amazing guitar solos using open strings and pentatonic scale patterns.
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.
Instantly Sound Great, Playing Your Acoustic Guitar In Open Tunings
You maybe missing out on a massive range of sounds that you just can't get otherwise.
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.
How To Clean Up Your Blues Guitar Licks
Here you'll learn several creative blues guitar techniques that will make your blues phrases sound much more expressive.
Chords Are Not Just For Rhythm Playing
Chords have the potential to bring a whole new element to your soloing providing cool, unique, and contrasting textures amongst the single note lines you play.
Major Triad Arpeggios
Mike Campese will help master your triads in all 12 keys, focusing on the sharp keys for the major triads.
Pentatonic Aggression: The Secret To Playing Badass Blues Guitar Licks
Tom Hess takes you through the exact steps needed for cleaning up unwanted string noise in your blues guitar licks.