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Don't Just Learn Guitar. Learn To Be Yourself On Guitar.

Join me (and 20,000 others), and I'll show you how to use the mechanics of music to explore your guitar intuitively and skillfully. Plus, grab your  free chord book

Be Yourself On Guitar

Grab your free chord book

Latest Guitar Lessons

Discover the best guitar scale tools on the web, from scale generators and identifiers to matching chords with scales.

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Learn ten functional ways you can replace the standard dominant to give your chord progressions more variation and colour.

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Two part series exploring the concept of borrowed chords (second part here). What they are, where they come from, and how to treat them.

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Learn how different pentatonic scales can give you new phrasing pathways over specific chord types.

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Learn how to use slides to inject feeling into your lead and smoothly connect different areas of the neck...



Vibrantly expand your chord vocabulary using alternate open chords (get the accompanying e-book here)...



Learn how to turn scales into arpeggios for a more vertical approach to your lead playing...



Learn how to target melody more effectively in your chord playing...



Learn how the 1 4 5 triad method makes it easy to harmonise scales and create fluid chord melody in any key...



Learn the basics of how to combine chord and melody playing up the neck...





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