Every player is aware of the minor pentatonic, but not everyone knows how to make the most of it. These examples – in the style of some prolific pentatonic players – will help you master the shape eve ...

With the intermediate status, one has learned some basic chords and strum patterns so those initial thrills are gone, and now ...

The death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in May 2020 gave momentum to a cross-ideological effort to reform ...

It’s seems everyone has a good Ace Frehley story. Gene Simmons has one about the time Ace auditioned for Kiss, on December 8, ...

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 minor).

This meant that they could play standard minor and major chords ... “The voicing of the second and third scale tones, which is the essence of the chord’s appeal, should always occur as a whole tone ...

The following line, “the fourth, the fifth / the minor fall, the major lift” quite literally describes the chord progression underpinning those words. With the fourth and fifth chord of the scale, ...

rootless closed-voicing chords, and diminished whole-tone scales (sometimes referred to as the 7th mode of the melodic minor scale) under my fingers and in my brain. You can get such a hip sound ...

By utilizing Finite State Machines, it quickly recognizes chords on input, and enables musicians to easily learn and play along by breaking down key signatures and creating major and minor scales. The ...