Melodic Development – How to make your solos more interesting
In this video I quickly explain how to take a basic idea and try to develop it to make your solos more interesting and memorable. Remember to leave lots of…
30 Days to build a habit
This is something I have known for years, but I have just started implementing with great results. It works wonders if you are having a hard time making a start…
A tool to improve your improvising skills.
It's not a secret that one of my all time favourite guitar instructional books is The Advancing Guitarist by Mick Goodrich. One the exercises explained in this great book is about…
How to use the Diminished Scale Pt 1
In this guitar lesson I am going over a scale that is widely used in the jazz and fusion circles and creates quite a distinctive sound. Actually...it is not a…
Practice tips: the 12 Marsalis Rules
A while ago I stumbled online on a few good articles on practice tips: a few of these included these12 rules by master jazz trumpet player Winton Marsalis. I want…
More Advanced Blues stuff (the Miles/Robben thing)
Advanced pentatonic stuff. There are when times you can get bored of playing just the pentatonic on a blues, or maybe you've heard more contemporary blues players like Robben Ford,…
The Master Plan: Reach your full potential as a Guitarist/Musician
An Introduction – the big picture In this short introduction I will point out what a musician/guitarist should know or should work towards to reach his/her full potential. Many times…