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How To Make The Blues Scale Your Own
When you start out playing blues guitar one of the most challenging things is to make the blues scale actually sound bluesy. It's one of those scales that require an extra effort in order to get some rewarding sounds out of it. You could learn a bunch of licks and...
Improvising With Knowledge: Lesson 6
I am Greg Studley, and this is Lesson 6 of Improvising With Knowledge on Ultimate Guitar. These lessons are designed to get you accustomed to yet another pentatonic scale shape, which can be used as a major pentatonic scale or minor pentatonic scale when improvising. Here's what we've covered in...
Neapolitan Chords: What They Are And How To Use Them
Hey guys, I decided to make a very random but informative video about Neapolitan Chords! These chords are my absolute favorite when it comes to chromatic harmony. Neapolitan Chords: Neapolitan Chords have a very distinct sound in the chord progression. A Neapolitan Chord is a bII chord. If we are...
Sweep Picking Lesson: Starting From The Inside
I'll keep this as short as possible. The motivation for this video is the fact that most lessons out there require you to perform sweeps in downward/upward motions. That means, you start either by picking the lower strings or the higher strings. Seldom never are you required to start from...
Lesson Of The Day : 3 Notes Per String Scales/Modes
Hey guys! Here is a simple worksheet that will help guide you through the modes of C Major. I enjoy this because it opens up a whole lot of exercises that I will cover later! Hope you enjoy! Things to focus on: Make sure you are constantly alternate picking Try...