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Dozens of articles on the subject of scales, scale patterns, scale connection and more.
A great way to connect the five basic major scale patterns.
If you know all of your scale patterns, but are not sure how to connect them, this lesson will help you.
What we are being told by traditional music theory, is a load of crap.
Creating unlimited licks using the pentatonic scale.
The pentatonic scale contains 5 notes; the melodic combinations you have to work with are endless.
Koto on guitar - let's get exotic, shall we?
Now, Mike mixes up the rhythms when practicing scales to make things that much more interesting.
Building your chops while making practice time more interesting and even, fun.
Mike digs a little deeper into the Altered scale, aka Super Locrian.
Deepen your knowledge of the Minor Pentatonic scale, free yourself from the “5 boxes slavery”, expand your phrasing vocabulary and stimulate your creativity.
Mike teaches you scale sequences (in the Hanon style, adapted from piano) that are great for your dexterity and precision.
Break free of your limiting beliefs about pentatonic scales.
New Jersey guitarist Paul Kuntz takes time out from lunch to give you his assurance that there is life beyond the blues scale.
Houston guitarist Rusty Cooley figures that with ten fingers, there`s got to be times when you can use over half of them to express your ideas.
Don Lappin discusses the endless possibilities of the 5-tone tapping technique.
G9er Will Landrum is back to teach you the magic of turning a scale into real music.
Great scalar ideas from an award winning guitarist.
An Italian guitarist is prepared to expand your chormatic awareness.
How to play the same rhythm-melodic sequence on the same beat, starting on a different sixteenth each time.
A brand new column by Billboard Magazine Top Rated Instructor Scott Morris.
A look at ways to create scales that are not taught, but invented.
Learning the fretboard through scales by Mike Campese.
A complete primer on these amazing scales.
More ways to master the fretboard through the use of the pentatonic scale.
How to expand your soloing arsenal by reworking some familiar ideas.
Sooner or later, you`ll want to make your solos more exciting. Start by making up new scale sequences.
Italian guitarist Salvatore Vecchio with a column on mixing various pentatonic scales to achieve something fresh.
Paul Nelson talks about the Ionian, or Major scale.
More creative ways to use modal pentatonics in your playing.
Constructing your own chord voicings and increasing your chord vocabulary.
Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas answers the burning question.
Let the Sultan of String take you on the exotic scale ride of your life.
Let the Sultan of String explain the finer points of the Yona Nuki and In scales.
Use this scale to yield great sounds in jazz and ragtime, through perilous horror-film mayhem, cheese-metal and progressive rock fusion.
Let the Sultan of String blend, meld, mix and match scales, yielding a unique, exotic effect.
Do you know them? You must know them! Check out Mike Campese`s essential scales review.
Mike Campese demonstrates that you can get many unique sounds out of just one scale.
A whole lot of great information about how to get new uses out of the pentatonic scale.
Mike Campese with more examples of getting many unique sounds out of just one scale.
A very challenging, but rewarding technique, with guitarist Mick Neil.
Mike Campese serves up a blended scale you can use to set your music apart from the ordinary.