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Stuck In The Pentatonic Box?

April 17, 2009 By Lee 10 Comments

If you’re stuck in the pentatonic box and struggling to find a useful way to make any musical sense of the five pentatonic positions then do yourself a favour and try something new … Pack your virtual suitcase with a few simple ideas, cut off all contact, and lock away everything you know about the five pentatonic positions. Take a thirty day break from them and when you come back you’ll see them in a completely new (and usable) light. Suitcase ready, here’s your packing list!

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Playing Guitar – What Does It Take

October 27, 2008 By Lee 10 Comments

I’m currently working on a new lead guitar series of lessons for playing the minor pentatonic scale using the entire fretboard (coming soon) and I have to be honest, I get the feeling it’s not going to be as popular as I would like it to be. Why? Because I think most struggling guitarists are still looking for that amazing overnight miracle or sudden insight.
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Mastering The Pentatonics – Part 5

September 7, 2008 By Lee 6 Comments

Minor Arpeggios and the minor pentatonic

There seems to be a lot of confusion about arpeggios for those who have never played around with them. [Read more…]

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Mastering The Pentatonics – Part 4

September 7, 2008 By Lee 2 Comments

Breaking down the pentatonic scale

One of the biggest problems with scale positions is if you’re not careful you might end up thinking about them in positions relative to each other, rather than independent scales. [Read more…]

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Mastering The Pentatonics – Part 3

September 7, 2008 By Lee Leave a Comment

Intervals inside the pentatonic shapes

It’s also important to know the placement of all the chords and intervals within the pentatonic shapes. [Read more…]

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Mastering The Pentatonics – Part 2

September 7, 2008 By Lee Leave a Comment

Triads

All of the previous chord forms were built on triads. A triad is simply a chord containing three notes. [Read more…]

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Mastering The Pentatonics – Part 1

September 7, 2008 By Lee 10 Comments

The Guitar Rut! … I’m sure most of us guitarists have been in the same situation at some point. We enter the world of lead guitar, learn the minor pentatonic scale, some licks, get the technique down quite well and just as we start sounding pretty good we hit a brick wall! At this point most of us reach the same conclusion.. The pentatonic scale is too limited, we need to learn something new. [Read more…]

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How To Tune A Guitar

September 7, 2008 By Lee Leave a Comment

Unless you have never played a guitar before then the subject of tuning is quite obvious and straightforward. You plug in your guitar tuner, turn the machine heads until the needle is centred for each string in turn and your done, right?.. Well actually, no.. not quite!

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Why Learn Music Theory

September 7, 2008 By Lee 3 Comments

The big question!
Do you really need to know music theory to become a great guitarist or musician? [Read more…]

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Straight Feel – 12 Bar Blues Jam Track

September 7, 2008 By Lee 4 Comments

Style:
Driving Twelve Bar Rock Blues. [Read more…]

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