Tip: Improvising With The Blues
In this third part of Darrin’s Scales to Use for Soloing, we’re going to build on previous scales and try for a more blues sound and feel.
In this third part of Darrin’s Scales to Use for Soloing, we’re going to build on previous scales and try for a more blues sound and feel.
Meeting a new student, or a new class full of students, is always a bit of a challenge. I want to make sure that we’re a good fit, and just like on a first date, there’s only so much you can know about each other after a few minutes. Taking up the guitar is adding […]
Is the C major pentatonic the only scale you can use over a progression in C major? Thankfully, no. We have many choices.
Queensryche now has a greatest hits album: Sign of the Times – The Best Of Queensryche. This is the Definitive Queensryche Collection with 17 of the band’s best songs. We have 2 copies of the Deluxe Edition to give away. The Deluxe Edition features a Second CD of 15 Unreleased Demos, Live & Bonus Tracks […]
Let’s get into a topic that gets a lot of guitarists excited, and some maybe a little frustrated: scales to use for soloing.
Whether you’re five or seventy-five, there is one factor that solely accounts for many people giving up on the guitar – frustration. And while this is not news or even mildly surprising, it is astonishing that in one’s lifelong adventure with the guitar the spectre of frustration often guides our actions or inactions. Worse, a […]
No matter what you see or hear in notated music, there are only three types of chords, as they relate to key centers: tonic, dominant and subdominant.
It’s always nice to see your name and picture in the paper. Earlier this week, David Hodge was featured in his town’s local paper, The Berkshire Record. You’ll find the original article by Josh O’Gorman Guitar Guru here. Owing to geography, a lot of us only get to know David through his columns, newsletters and […]