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This tutorial will help you to get into jazz improvisation using the ionian, dorian, phyrgian, lydian, mixolydian, aeolian, and locrian modes. You'll also get some instruction on phrasing and how you can take these licks a step further.

In this tutorial, we'll have some fun with some challenging practice exercises for the minor scale. Get ready to put your minor scale chops to work, with these very musical scale practice exercises. Who said practicing scales should be boring?

In this tutorial, we'll begin to make the connection between playing an open minor scale, top to bottom, and, using the notes within that scale to create melody and solos. In other words, now that you've learned some scales, let's make some music!

Major scales that relate to the major chords you already know are an important building block for making your playing more interesting and fun. Use the notes of these scales to work towards playing melody, riffs, and improvisations, right in the context of a song with chords. Expand your sound, big-time!

In this set of lessons, we'll learn a pattern of notes to play that will allow you to easily play the major scale, in any key you want. This streamlined system makes playing major scales super easy, and is the gateway to playing melody, riffs, and improvisations up the neck of the guitar.

In this set of lessons, Anders Mouridsen will break down the minor and major pentatonic scales. We'll give you an overview of these scales and suggest a simple tone, then look at the minor pentatonic scale. After some improvising, you'll learn your first rock lick and how to jam with it. Next we'll learn the major pentatonic and jam with it, and finish with some easy practice exercises.

The 'Grid-Style' minor scale allows us to play any minor scale that exists, using a consistent and moveable pattern. Learn this grid, and you can instantly play ANY minor scale that exists, just by placing the grid at different points on the neck of the guitar.

Learning to understand what the Major Scale is all about will open up exciting new doors to you as a guitar player! The Major Scale is a common language amongst all instruments, not just the guitar. In this tutorial, we'll learn what makes the Major Scale 'tick', and why.

In this set of lessons, Anders Mouridsen will teach you about intervals in rock soloing. After a brief introduction and dialing in a suitable tone, Anders will show you how to use the interval of a major third. Next up is the fourth, in a Chuck Berry style context, then the fifth interval. We'll break down the use of the sixth next, followed by octaves; and we'll conclude by putting them all together.

Christopher will discuss and demonstrate the minor modes: dorian, phrygian, aeolian and locrian. We'll review the unique interval formula of each minor mode and how to play them. We'll play each mode on the same root note to use them in an ornamental manner. We'll get a lot of practice playing and hearing the unique characteristics of each mode.

In this tutorial we will learn how the minor scale can be altered to make different scales, chords and harmonies. We'll build a minor chord progression and learn how to play the natural diatonic minor scale as melodic lines along with those chords. Then we'll alter the chords and scales to show the different possible minor sounding flavors that are used in music.

Trick yourself into practicing your major scales by playing along with the grooves in this tutorial. We will use what you've learned about major scales, and build on it to create real music. Get ready to have a blast, and, come away with a fluid and solid grasp of several essential major scales.

In these lessons, Anders Mouridsen will get you started on rock soloing by teaching you about major and minor scales. First we'll give an overview of the scales, then dial in a basic tone. Then we'll dig in and learn the A major scale and how to improvise with it, trading 4s; next up is the A minor scale and how to improvise with it. After that we'll look at some other patterns and positions, and we'll end with some easy practice exercises.

This tutorial is the result of frustrations of the instructor as he taught scales to students in a traditional sequence. After much trial and error, it became evident that students respond to learning scales in a sequence not taught by traditional methods. The trial and error of the instructor becomes your advantage as the material covers the minor pentatonic, major pentatonic, major and then minor scales. Plenty of examples along with animated fretboard graphics make learning these scales fun and rewarding as you learn how to make your own guitar solos

This tutorial came about as a result of the frustrations of the instructor trying to teach scales to students in his private teaching in a traditional sequence. After much trial and error, it became evident that students respond to learning the scales in a different order than the one conventionally taught by most material. The trial and error of the instructor becomes your advantage as we take a fresh, new look at learning scales by starting with the minor pentatonic, not the major scale as taught by most material. Plenty of examples along with animated fretboard graphics make learning these scales fun and rewarding as you learn how to make your own guitar solos

Knowing your way around some exotic scales has the power to open up a whole new world of melodies and ideas that you can add to your compositions. The use of exotic scales can also add that extra melodic flair to a well crafted solo. Michael Elsner takes you through five different exotic scales, explaining what they are and how to use them. He plays some examples over custom backing tracks to give you a "real time" feel of using the scale.

Christopher will discuss and demonstrate the major modes: ionian, lydian and mixolydian. We'll review the unique interval formula of each major mode and how to play them. We'll play each mode on the same root note to use them in an ornamental manner. We'll get a lot of practice playing and hearing the unique characteristics of each mode.

In this tutorial we'll explore a wide variety of scales and licks that work with a 3 chord progression in the key of C. The 3 chords we'll be using are C (the I chord), F (the IV chord), and Bb ( the dominant VII chord). This chord progression has been used in many southern rock and blues rock songs.

This tutorial series will introduce the beginner guitarist to the concept of systematically practicing scales using a metronome. The C major and minor scales will be used. Four patterns will be used as examples of a systematic practice method: up and down, in 3's, in 4's, and pedal point. Use of the metronome is stressed as crucial for proper practice and development. While this tutorial is primarily written for beginners, experienced players might benefit from this detailed method of how to practice scales.

This tutorial explains how scales and chords are related to each other. You will also learn musical examples that show how to combine scales and chords.

Christopher will show you the seven modes of the major scale. He'll show you each mode, how to play it, why it is unique, how it fits into the overall pattern of modes. There will also be play alongs and backing tracks to get a lot of practice at using all the modes.

In this tutorial series we will discuss pentatonic scales, patterns & shapes. We will use them to build pentatonic "frameworks" (or "box shapes") as a visual aid to see familiar patterns on the fretboard. And then use them as a springboard to understanding scale degrees and why scales sound the way they do.

The Pentatonic Scale is the cornerstone of rock soloing, serving as an essential tool for crafting memorable melodies, and expressive licks. In the following tutorial, we’ll dive into the Major and Minor Pentatonic Scale Boxes and learn how to start creating licks with them. We’ll learn to play a few simple licks with each scale, and finish up with a practice tune that combines everything we’ve learned.

In the previous tutorial we learned where to find all the C major notes in the open position. Many of these notes are the same notes we use for our basic open chords. In this tutorial we'll explore the relationship between those scale notes and open chords.

This tutorial will give you the basic scale shapes needed to play in any key on the entire neck.

This tutorial shows you an exercise on how the A minor scale can be used to "walk in and out" of a group of related minor chords (A, D, E minor).

This tutorial shows you an exercise on how the A major scale can be used to "walk in and out" of a group of related major chords (A, D, E major).

In this tutorial we will look at a way of visualizing the guitar fretboard. First we will look at playing diatonic scales (major, minor and the various diatonic modes) in patterns that result in 3 notes per string. Because there are only 3 different shapes to learn, the result is that every natural diatonic scale can be played by using combinations of only these three basic fingerings. This is also a good way to get used to the musical alphabet. There will be a lot of backing track play along exercises to practice the ideas.

In the following lessons, we’ll explore how to craft single note riffs using a variety of scales and rhythmic subdivisions. We’ll play through some examples, and turn those examples into a practice tune that combines everything we’ve learned.

In this first of a two part series you'll learn single finger tapping ideas with arpeggios, sliding, string bending, pentatonic scales, diatonic scales, pedal points, and tapping harmonics.

Christopher will show you basic ear training exercises designed to be used for guitarists. You will use the guitar to play, hear, sing and identify all 12 chromatic scale degrees. We'll start with the diatonic major and minor scales. Then we'll add the remaining chromatic degrees. Then we'll try some basic exercises to practice identifying all those intervals in order to gain the aural skill of relative pitch identification.

Christopher will show you how to really spice up your blues lead playing with these advanced licks! First we'll look at the basic pentatonic minor box as scale degrees. Then we'll do the same for the mixolydian mode. Then we'll start building licks from combining those two scales and play them over the changes of a 12 bar blues in A.

Betts plays with a clean to sweetly rounded sustained tone using mostly pentatonic major scales with a country flavor adapted to the Allman Brothers rock style. He plays mostly simple, but flowing phrases that emphasized melodic devices of repetition, variation, and rhythmic displacement. Along with Duane, Dickey's style is a key component of the unique, instantly identifiable sound of the early Allman Brothers Band. Their sweet as sugar twin harmony leads are an iconic sound of rock and roll guitar vocabulary.