Warm Up Exercise 1

Welcome to the Soloing Skillz – Warm Up series! These lessons will teach you some of the best exercises you can do to warm up your fingers and get you ready for a great practice/playing session. They will also help you improve your speed, accuracy and technical...

The Pentatonic Minor Scale

This covers the following topics: Why a minor Pentatonic minor works. How a minor Pentatonic minor works. Where to play a Pentatonic minor. Who uses a Pentatonic minor? How to carefully craft solos using the pentatonic minor. What is a pentatonic? Pentatonic minor...

The Major Pentatonic Scale

This covers the following topics: Why a Pentatonic works. How a Pentatonic works. Where to play a Pentatonic. Who uses a Pentatonic? How do they use the pentatonic? What is a pentatonic? Pentatonic scales should not be a mystery.  A pentatonic scale is not something...

All About String Bending

Bending strings causes the pitch of the note fretted to change to a higher pitch. Most commonly strings are bent a whole step (to sound like the note 2 frets higher) But sometimes they can be bent just ½ step (sounds like 1 fret higher) or even higher: 1 ½ steps...

Practicing Effectively For Quicker Progress – Part 1

Its important to get the most out of your time and effort no matter what you are trying to accomplish,musically or otherwise. You’ve probably stuff like heard this before but I’ll repeat it for you anyway…You’ve got to plan and then take action...