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Guest Columnists
James Rosocha

Sequence And Rhythmic Variation

James Rosocha

Additional rhythmic variations to practice using the pentatonic scale as the vehicle.

June-July 2018
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Harmonic Minor (Unlocking Sounds)

Mike Campese

Mike delivers the keys to unlocking specific sounds, such as the Phrygian dominant mode, from the Harmonic Minor scale.

June-July 2018
Guest Columnists
Chris Byrd

How to Play Stone Mob's "Murder Town" Solo

Chris Byrd

Deepen your knowledge of the Minor Pentatonic scale, free yourself from the β€œ5 boxes slavery”, expand your phrasing vocabulary and stimulate your creativity.

June-July 2018
Guest Columnists
Luca Sellitto

Minor Pentatonic Scale: Free Yourself From The Five Boxes

Luca Sellitto

Deepen your knowledge of the Minor Pentatonic scale, free yourself from the β€œ5 boxes slavery”, expand your phrasing vocabulary and stimulate your creativity.

June-July 2018
Guest Columnists
James Rosocha

Seeing Shapes and Patterns

James Rosocha

Rosocha teaches permutations - altered scale shapes based on fretboard position.

April-May 2018
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Triad Arpeggios

Mike Campese

Gaining fluency with triad arpeggios will help your soloing and rhythm playing.

April-May 2018
Guest Columnists
Simon Candy

Play Thousands Of Songs With The Clawhammer Fingerpicking Pattern

Simon Candy

Play great songs such as β€œLandslide”, "Dust In The Wind" and "The Boxer".

April-May 2018
Guest Columnists
Simon Candy

Learn The Technique Of Slide Guitar And Take Your Playing To A Whole New Level

Simon Candy

Slide guitar offers a very cool and unique sound that cannot be emulated any other way.

February-March 2018
Guest Columnists
Tom Hess

Four Keys To Making An Effective Guitar Practice Schedule

Tom Hess

Anyone (including yourself) can learn to develop creativity by using the proven methods and strategies for reaching this goal.

February-March 2018
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Chromatic Riffs and Lines

Mike Campese

Mike shows you several ways to spice up your riffs, lines and solos with some chromatic passing tones.

February-March 2018
Guest Columnists
Simon Candy

Awesome Sounding Fingerpicking Blues Arrangements On Your Acoustic Guitar

Simon Candy

A technique that allows you to play both the melody and accompaniment parts of a blues tune at the same time.

December-January 2017
Guest Columnists
James Rosocha

Quoting The Melody Of Tunes

James Rosocha

Melodies are what stick in the listeners mind and convey passion and emotion: creating coherence in your solos.

December-January 2017
Guest Columnists
Luca Sellitto

String Crossing Exercises

Luca Sellitto

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.

December-January 2017
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Hanon Style, Scale Sequences

Mike Campese

Mike teaches you scale sequences (in the Hanon style, adapted from piano) that are great for your dexterity and precision.

December-January 2017
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Harmonic Minor: Movable Patterns

Mike Campese

Mike shows you moveable type patterns for the harmonic minor scale, and some ways you can get some fresh new modern type sounds.

October-November 2017
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Movable Picking Patterns

Mike Campese

focusing on picking and moveable shapes that will help to create longer lines.

August-September 2017
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

The Modes In One Position

Mike Campese

Confused about the modes? Here is a way you can practice the modes that may help.

June-July 2017
Guest Columnists
Chris Schreiner

Sweep Arpeggios - For Any Occasion

Chris Schreiner

Chris takes you through every inversion on string-set G-B-E, allowing you to bust one out when called upon to do so.

April-May 2017
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Picking: 3-String Picking Ideas

Mike Campese

3-string picking ideas that are great for developing your picking, and to help create lines.

April-May 2017
Guest Columnists
Simon Candy

Soloing With Open Strings On Guitar, Part 1

Simon Candy

How to create amazing guitar solos using open strings and pentatonic scale patterns.

February-March 2017
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Picking

Mike Campese

These 2-string scale fragment examples will increase your speed and your picking technique.

February-March 2017
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Constructing Lines With The 5th Intervals

Mike Campese

Read about new ideas for using perfect 5ths in your playing.

December-January 2016
Guest Columnists
Tom Hess

Tremolo Picking Guitar Method For Unbelievable Speed

Tom Hess

How to develop a lightning fast tremolo picking guitar technique.

December-January 2016
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Arpeggio Sequences

Mike Campese

Here are Mike's technique to help spice up your solos, instead of just running up and down arpeggios.

October-November 2016
Guest Columnists
Simon Candy

Instantly Sound Great, Playing Your Acoustic Guitar In Open Tunings

Simon Candy

You maybe missing out on a massive range of sounds that you just can't get otherwise.

August-September 2016
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Technical Muscial Examples From 'Chapters'

Mike Campese

Mike Campese teaches you short snippets from some songs off his brand new album "Chapters".

August-September 2016
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Picking And Independence

Mike Campese

These exercises and examples will help you to improve your finger independence as well as your picking.

June-July 2016
Guest Columnists
Tom Hess

Soloing: Creating Strong Emotions Over Chords

Tom Hess

Tom Hess will help you make your guitar solos overflow with emotion,

April-May 2016
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Melodic Minor Shred Lines

Mike Campese

Just by flatting the third you can develop a whole new shredding sound.

April-May 2016
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Maintaining Your Chops

Mike Campese

Mike Campese reminds you that if you don't use it, you will surely lose it.

February-March 2016
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

String Skipping

Mike Campese

Mike Campese will help you build on your scales with his string skipping exercises.

December-January 2015
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Shredding With Position Shifts

Mike Campese

Mike Campese is back to help you out of the box - the scale pattern box, that is.

October-November 2015
Guest Columnists
Tom Hess

How To Clean Up Your Blues Guitar Licks

Tom Hess

Here you'll learn several creative blues guitar techniques that will make your blues phrases sound much more expressive.

August-September 2015
Guest Columnists
Simon Candy

Chords Are Not Just For Rhythm Playing

Simon Candy

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.

August-September 2015
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Major Triad Arpeggios

Mike Campese

Mike Campese will help master your triads in all 12 keys, focusing on the sharp keys for the major triads.

August-September 2015
Guest Columnists
Tom Hess

Pentatonic Aggression: The Secret To Playing Badass Blues Guitar Licks

Tom Hess

Tom Hess takes you through the exact steps needed for cleaning up unwanted string noise in your blues guitar licks.

June-July 2015
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