by Craig | Mar 2, 2020 | Guitar Improvisation
In this guitar lesson, we’re going to take a look at the concept of inverting guitar licks. This is a very simple, but often overlooked, strategy that helps you to get a lot more mileage from all the licks that you learn. The basic idea of inverting licks is to...
by Craig | Feb 24, 2020 | Guitar Improvisation
I think we’ve all had the frustration of woodshedding a lick only for it to never appear in our soloing when we improvise. It can often feel like a waste of time to work so hard on something, only to notice that we can’t use it in our playing! So what...
by Craig | Feb 10, 2020 | Guitar Improvisation
Hopefully, you’ve had a chance to read through my Introduction To Phrasing article. In that article, we talked about how I like to break phrasing into three key elements… Note Choice (What)Rhythm (When)Articulation (How) In this article, we’re going...
by Craig | Feb 3, 2020 | Guitar Improvisation
In my teaching, I often help guitarists that are very frustrated with their guitar soloing. They’ve been practising scales, arpeggios and other musical materials for a long time but still feel that they lack the ability to solo in a musical way. Often they think...
by Craig | Jan 31, 2020 | Guitar Improvisation
Quite a few years ago I was having my weekly lesson with my jazz guitar tutor, and he said something interesting to me… “If you learn one lick a week, in twenty years you’ll be able to play jazz”. Now, obviously, he wasn’t being totally serious...
by Craig | Jan 24, 2020 | Guitar Improvisation
Would it surprise you if I said that you are a master of improvisation? You can already improvise with great fluidity, effortlessness and skill. You have the skill to think of unlimited ideas and express them in a way that is uniquely you. At this point, you might be...
