A guitar riff is a short, repeated musical phrase, usually built from a scale or a chord, that forms the backbone of a song. Think of the opening of ‘Smoke on the Water’ or ‘Day Tripper’… that catchy, repeating bit is the riff. The good news for a beginner: most riffs are just a handful […]
Most guitar players don’t get stuck because licks are too hard. They get stuck because they reach for the wrong ones first… the flashy, ten-notes-a-second stuff that takes months to clean up. So here’s a different starting point. Fifteen easy guitar licks, plus a Knopfler bonus to grow into, every one built out of the […]
Here’s something that surprises a lot of players when they first see it: the major scale pattern and the minor scale pattern in the same key contain the exact same notes. The video above shows you how this works and why it completely changes the way you think about moving around the neck. Once you […]
If you’re trying to figure out which scale to learn first, the answer is pretty clear: the pentatonic minor. In the video above, we look at exactly why it’s the perfect starting point for beginners — and it’s not just because it’s popular. There’s a real musical reason it works so well for new players. […]
One of the most useful things you can learn on guitar is how to take a scale pattern you already know and move it to a completely different key. That’s exactly what we cover in the video above — and once it clicks, it changes how you think about the whole fretboard. The idea is […]
The E major scale is one of the most useful scales on the guitar, and in the video above we break it down in a way that finally makes the whole fretboard make sense. Instead of just learning one box and calling it done, we look at where every single E major note lives across […]
Most of us learn scales the wrong way around. A pentatonic box here, a major scale there, a list of modes that never get used. This is a short free guide on the three or four scales that actually do real work on the guitar, and the order to learn them in.