How to breathe new life in your licks and prepare for real-life playing at the same time.
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How to breathe new life in your licks and prepare for real-life playing at the same time.
See how one of the least exciting concepts in music theory can actually help you create awesome licks.
Knowing all the notes on your fretboard is more useful and simpler than you think. Read here how.
Wrapping your mind around the old "cowboy chords" but have no idea where to go from there? Here is a simple concept helping you break free and stimulating creativity.
A lot has been written on Blues soloing, but preciously little on creative Blues rhythm playing. Don`t get caught playing the usual three power chords.
You might think that the pentatonic scale is just an easy scale but with no depth - well, you are wrong.
The CAGED system as is commonly taught has a number of problems that prevent you to reach your full potential.
There is a simple way to learn music theory (more than one in fact).
Are you playing too much? Well, it may be that you are not using enough pentatonic scales in your soloing!
Let`s have a look at some of the problems that may prevent you and many other blues players from realizing their musical potential.
Playing high-pitched squeals that are so important in the style of metal players (and others).
Is it really necessary to know how to read music? Let`s open this can of worms.
Tommaso Zillio is a professional prog rock/metal guitarist and composer based in Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Tommaso is currently working on an instrumental CD, and an instructional series on fretboard visualization and exotic scales. He is your go-to guy for any and all music theory-related questions.
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