With the intermediate status, one has learned some basic chords and strum patterns so those initial thrills are gone, and now the interest lies with further technical proficiency, melodic fluency, and ...

We've all been there; the dog days when you feel like you're not progressing with your guitar playing and you don't know how to start moving forward. Simply finding the time to practice can be a ...

In this video, I walk through my personal routine for practicing altered dominant chords, especially rootless voicings for #5/#9—and the diminished whole-tone scale (a.k.a. the 7th mode of the melodic ...

Throughout Joe Satriani's storied career, he’s explored exotic scales and modes, and the unusual intervals and harmonic possibilities that they offer. Developing a new scale to the point where you can ...