Scales Guitar Lessons

So the whole goal of this lesson is to focus on breaking some of the barriers we tend to put on ourselves when learning the five positions of the pentatonic scale. We'll navigate each and ev...

Hey Guys! First we're going to look at the basic Pentatonic scale, then how to expand on it over the fretboard. The Pentatonic is the essential lead guitar player's tool for crafting great,...

Hi there guys! Welcome to this tutorial on how to Visualize the Fretboard. This tutorial is going to deal with learning major scales and their modes and how to visualize them on the guitar....

Welcome to the Pentatonic Scale Tutorial! The pentatonic scale is an extremely important scale and should be learned and respected by every guitarist. The pentatonic is a foundational scale...

Let's examine modes in a "meat and potatoes" kind of way; a way that enables you to use the box shapes you already know to produce different musical textures that perhaps were unattainable w...

Hi there guys! Welcome to this tutorial on visualizing pentatonic scales for guitar. This tutorial aims to help you break out of the rut that the typical box pattern approach to learning pe...

Okay! Let's put these fingerings to work. We're going to be doing everything in the key of G major for this tutorial but these ideas will transpose into any key you wish. Our first scale i...

We're going to be using 3 fingerings only to learn these scales all over the neck. Fingering number 1 uses our 1st, 2nd and 4th fingers with a gap of 1 fret between each. On the video and i...

So, how do these sus4 chords relate to our minor pentatonic scale? Well, every minor pentatonic scale contains a couple of sus4 chords which we're going to focus on. Let's take Am pentatoni...

So here's our first modal scale - dorian. Dorian is the second mode of the major scale and in the key of G starts on the note A. We'll start our scale on the 5th fret of the low E string. I...

Now, on to line playing! All of these examples are TABBED for 4ths tuning but the standard tuned versions are at the end of the tutorial. I recommend you print these out for reference as som...

Hi Guys! Welcome to this tutorial on using Melodic Minor Scales. In this tutorial we'll be learning how to use melodic minor scales in conjunction with the major scales we already know in ...

Hi there guitar lovers! This months tutorial is on Minor 6th pentatonic scales. What an earth are those you may ask? A minor 6th pentatonic is a hybrid pentatonic scale built from a Dorian...

Hello and welcome to my new tutorial on Economy of motion. In this tutorial we will be focusing on the key elements required to play the guitar with the minimum amount of physical exertion. ...

One of the best uses I've found for this technique is for comping. In other words, for playing chord based accompaniment or solos over chord changes or a static groove. Normally you'd rarel...

Here are the TABS in standard tuning for this tutorial. FIrst you'll see the Csus4 inversions, then below you'll find all 4 line playing exercises. Cheers, Tom

Hey everyone and welcome to this Creative Scales tutorial! We are going to get creative with the Pentatonic scale by creating a hybrid of two scales: A minor Pentatonic and E minor Pentato...

Moving on to Phrygian we have a scale starting on the note B. This occurs on the 7th fret of the low E string giving us B Phrygian. Our phrygian scale starts on the second of our fingering ...

One of the great things about visualizing the pentatonics is that it allows us to create lines in addition to new comping ideas. Over the next few videos, I'll introduce you to four of the k...

Here is our final line built from the Am pentatonic scale. This example makes the most blatant use of it as far as the sus4 shapes go. If you analyze the line, you'll see that we're simply ...

Okay - so now we'll apply these ideas to an actual chord progression. The progression in question is a minor blues in the key of C. You can see the chords below in the Tab with suggested vo...

Okay! So now we have our 7 chords for the key of C melodic minor. But how do we use them? Well first it's important to understand the fundamental difference between major scale harmony and ...

Line No. 2 is a descending 16th note triplet phrase utilizing stretched sus4 arpeggios built from our Am pentatonic again. I've incorporated a sneaky Dsus4 arpeggio at the beginning of the ...

Let's take this comping idea and apply it to a static groove. I know one problem many people have when playing over a static groove is knowing how to create interesting chordal ideas which d...