Creating Emotional Impact with the Blues Scale
Taking Your Blues Playing from “Meh” to Mind-Blowing
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Melodic Minor Pentatonic Lesson
How to create some cool sounds with only a small change to patterns that you probably already know.
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Making Sense Of The Pentatonic Minor Scale
In this Lesson, you’ll learn how to visualize the Pentatonic Minor scale across the fretboard so you can play it in any position.
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8 Octopus Licks: Fresh Guitar Scale Ideas With Wide Scales
This lesson is based upon the idea that if we create wider scale boxes, then we’ll get more interesting intervals and sounds.
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A Lesson On Getting Out With Twelve-Tone Patterns
A quick and dirty recipe for generating 12-tone sounds using ingredients you already have at home.
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Minor Keys: Use and Understand Part 2
Adam Pietrykowski schools us and discusses practical applications for minor harmonies for the guitar in Minor Keys: Use and Understand Part 2.
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Minor Keys: Use and Understanding Part 1
Read Time 4 MinutesSad to the Bone Minor keys are awesome. They sound dark and dramatic, and many musicians over the centuries have made great music with them. They’re also kind of a hassle to figure out. As I promised in a previous post, we’re going to delve into minor scale harmonization and their harmonic […]
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Why You Don’t Sound as Modal as You’d Like
The concept seems to elude many guitarists – at all levels. A question I often hear is “I’ve memorized all the modes. Now how do I apply them?”
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Modes Part 2: The Feelings Modes Evoke
In the article Modes: An Introduction For The Ages I had discussed the fundamentals of what defined something as a mode, but I skimmed right over the sounds and feelings each mode can evoke. Ultimately when it comes to music you can talk and talk about the principles all day long, but it doesn’t matter if you never hear any music out of it, so that’s just what we’re going to do here.
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Modes: An Introduction For The Ages
If you develop a good understanding of modes it really maximizes the number of emotions you can tap into from just one scale. If you have ever spent any amount of time committing the major scale to memory then the hardest part of the work is done because all of those scale forms you use remain the same.
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