Lessons Holiday 2023 Guitar Player Lesson Audio Struggling to string bend on your acoustic? Here are 4 simple tricks that will help… Outside of the box ideas for making string bending easier on an acoustic guitar "Everybody was going crazy about Yngwie Malmsteen. Joe Satriani told me, ‘Don’t get too into him...'" Alex Skolnick's Top Five Tips to becoming a better guitarist Testament's Alex Skolnick on why you should be honest with yourself, never listen to negativity and focus on creating your own identity as a guitar player Grid List Latest Lessons The Mixolydian Blues Scale Could Be the Most Useful Scale of All By Guitar Player Staff last updated 15 March 23 This scale reigns supreme as the chief source for carving those major/minor blues-based licks that sound so good over dominant 7th chords Avoid Melodic Monotony and Predictability Using the Half-Whole Diminished Scale By Chris Buono published 15 March 23 Here’s how to create more effective lines by relating the “symmetrical diminished” scale’s recurring fretboard patterns to chords Sculpting Virtual Guitar Solos: Three Techniques to Enhance Recorded Tracks By Craig Anderton published 15 March 23 Purists may object, but recording guitar onto hard-disk is limited only by your imagination April 2023 Guitar Player Lesson Audio By Guitar Player Staff published 13 March 23 Sick of Playing the Same Old Lead Lines? Here’s How Guitar Players Like Robert Fripp, Bill Frisell and Frank Zappa Broke the Mold By Patrick Brennan published 9 March 23 Learn to play “outside” by superimposing arpeggios over chord changes Discover the Dark Secrets of the Harmonic Minor Scale By Vinnie DeMasi published 9 March 23 How Yngwie Malmsteen’s “secret scale” can spawn a set of seven relative modes Expand Your Melodic Vocabulary and Attain Superior Fretboard Awareness With 'Parallel Pentatonic Modal Vision' By Chris Buono published 8 March 23 Learn PPMV – an insightful mapping of the pentatonic scale’s multifaceted natural order Master the Mixolydian Mode Like Chet Atkins, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen and Many More By Tom Kolb published 23 February 23 Harness this powerful and versatile mode with 20 riffs inspired by famous guitarists Discover and Decode Todd Rundgren’s Unique Chordal Chemistry By Jesse Gress published 21 February 23 Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into TR’s harmonic architecture Discover How Jimmy Page’s Genre-Melding Musical Innovations on ‘Houses of the Holy’ Helped Led Zeppelin Reach a New Creative Peak By Jeff Jacobson published 10 February 23 As this classic album turns 50, we explore how the guitarist blew the lid off his band’s blues-based formula 123456789Archives Get The Pick NewsletterAll the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors MOST READ1“It’s the sound of the Stones: a five-string with a six-string on top. Guitars are amazing things – you can make an orchestra out of them…” Keith Richards on life without Charlie, The Beatles and the Stones, and new album Hackney Diamonds2"You son of a b****, you're playing a Fender?" Watch Keith Richards and Les Paul jam in rare footage from 20003These 40 huge Black Friday and Cyber Monday guitar gear deals are still live – but they won’t be around much longer4Build your own Fender Stratocaster with this fun Cyber Monday Lego deal5The most affordable way to transform your sound: Get a Cyber Monday effects pedal deal before it's too late
The Mixolydian Blues Scale Could Be the Most Useful Scale of All By Guitar Player Staff last updated 15 March 23 This scale reigns supreme as the chief source for carving those major/minor blues-based licks that sound so good over dominant 7th chords
Avoid Melodic Monotony and Predictability Using the Half-Whole Diminished Scale By Chris Buono published 15 March 23 Here’s how to create more effective lines by relating the “symmetrical diminished” scale’s recurring fretboard patterns to chords
Sculpting Virtual Guitar Solos: Three Techniques to Enhance Recorded Tracks By Craig Anderton published 15 March 23 Purists may object, but recording guitar onto hard-disk is limited only by your imagination
Sick of Playing the Same Old Lead Lines? Here’s How Guitar Players Like Robert Fripp, Bill Frisell and Frank Zappa Broke the Mold By Patrick Brennan published 9 March 23 Learn to play “outside” by superimposing arpeggios over chord changes
Discover the Dark Secrets of the Harmonic Minor Scale By Vinnie DeMasi published 9 March 23 How Yngwie Malmsteen’s “secret scale” can spawn a set of seven relative modes
Expand Your Melodic Vocabulary and Attain Superior Fretboard Awareness With 'Parallel Pentatonic Modal Vision' By Chris Buono published 8 March 23 Learn PPMV – an insightful mapping of the pentatonic scale’s multifaceted natural order
Master the Mixolydian Mode Like Chet Atkins, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen and Many More By Tom Kolb published 23 February 23 Harness this powerful and versatile mode with 20 riffs inspired by famous guitarists
Discover and Decode Todd Rundgren’s Unique Chordal Chemistry By Jesse Gress published 21 February 23 Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into TR’s harmonic architecture
Discover How Jimmy Page’s Genre-Melding Musical Innovations on ‘Houses of the Holy’ Helped Led Zeppelin Reach a New Creative Peak By Jeff Jacobson published 10 February 23 As this classic album turns 50, we explore how the guitarist blew the lid off his band’s blues-based formula
