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As mentioned earlier in this course, in fact in lesson one Open String Scales In Five Keys, melodies are primarily made up of two elements; scales & arpeggios. In the first lesson, Ross introduced you to five open string major scales. In this lesson, Ross now takes these five keys and demonstrates the arpeggios that […]

There comes a moment for every guitarist, when they first discover the incredible beauty and musical power of movable forms. When you learn how to take open string chords up the neck, suddenly you get access to a huge new palette of musical sounds. In this lesson, the fifth of seven, Ross shows how to take

The open string chords you start with when beginning to play guitar are really great, however, this lesson shows you how to create new sounds from them. In the second lesson in this topic, Ross shows how to take open string chords up the neck and use in chordal accompaniment. Also how to rename these

Rhythm playing can often be overlooked by guitarists who are starting out in favour of lead lines. What you need to remember is that for a large part of the time, it will be rhythmic accompaniment that will take up your time. This lesson majors on rhythmic playing. In this lesson, Ross will be taking

Being able to play a song in one key is great, as we mentioned in the text within lesson one. What we need, however, the ability to play the same melody in many keys. This really takes us to the next level as a player. So how do we go about playing melodies in several

LEARNING THE OPEN STRING SCALES IN FIVE KEYS This lesson introduces you to five open string scales in five keys, major keys in open position to be precise. The keys addressed are C Major, D Major, G Major, A Major and E Major. This is the first of seven lessons for the advancing guitarist, created

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In the final lesson of this five lesson course on pentatonic minor scales, Gary Clinton discusses the challenges and opportunities of being able to change key using the five pentatonic scale patterns. In this lesson, Gary delves into learning to change key and how you go about this. Being able to change key is not

In this lesson, Gary looks to dive in deeper to the practicalities of playing five different patterns across the neck. You’ll learn how to identify various patterns and understand the tuning of the guitar and how it changes the patterns. You may know one or two scales, but this lesson builds on all the other

Now you will learn how to take the F minor pentatonic patterns and use them to create lick ideas for improvisation across the guitar neck. Let’s face it, one of the main reasons that people pick up the guitar is to play those amazing riffs that you see the great guitar players of the world