Here’s a simple soloing/harmonic thing you can use to ‘bring a little joy into your hum-drum lives‘. ;) Plus I show you how this leads…

Hey, just a heads up that I recorded a couple of lessons with internet overlord Justin Sandercoe :) In the first one we talked about…

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Hi, wanted to tell you about one of our courses at ElectricCampfire.com It’s called ‘Chord Tone Improvisation’, and it’s a video based course about musical…

Locrian Chords “What the hell else can I do with a Minor 7 flat 5 chord? Locrian Mode? Ok, that sounds weird, I’ll maybe stick…

Here’s a nice little cheat for the B section of Inner Urge. You can just play descending minor pentatonics starting from C# minor. Here’s the…

Pong, if you remember, was that awesome game on the Atari that simulated table tennis. Here’s a little musical exercise where you use the edges…

Lurking within the tunes that you already play are ideas waiting to be used. Take the standard Night and Day for example. A common way…

Here’s an idea using the Harmonic Major scale’s third mode. The formula for that is: 1 b2 b3 b4 5 b6 b7, which might be…

Here’s an idea that came from a student at The Arden Centre a good few years ago; I think his name was Ben Shaw. Could’ve…

3 Minute warning, maybe :) Anyhow, at 140 BPM the whole thing takes 2 minutes, so let’s aim for that. A two minute warm-up sounds…

Here’s an exercise for becoming fluent with arpeggios. Use Practice Page #1 which will give you a way to practise in all keys. Then choose an arpeggio…

Here are a couple of my favourite harmonic sounds from the Harmonic Minor. Combine these structures to get the flavour of the whole scale. To…

There are three minor pentaonics in a major scale. In G they are: A- B- and E- pentatonic. Analyse the notes of each penatatonic in…

Do all the previous posts on Scales in Intervals in all these scales. It’s a mammoth amount of work. I’d say impossible and pointless to…

Similar idea to yesterday’s post of using a specific interval, but apply it to a chord progression. As you feel comfortable being able to move…

For example, improvise freely with fourths or fifths. Concentrate on hearing the pitches before you play them. Or another way to put it: work on…

Apply other intervals to the previous three posts.

Harmonic version of scales in intervals. Play it legato, no gaps.

Looking at the last exercise with thirds, you can be ascending or descending through the scale, and the interval can be ascending or descending. That…

Here’s the G major scale in thirds. Try it two ways: In groups of 4 in 7/4 In groups of 7 in 4/4 The groups…

Here’s a chord progression which modulates: C-7 A-7 F#-7 Eb-7 Decide on a scale, let’s say Dorian: C Dorian: C D Eb F G A…

In this lesson, I showed you a way to organise key centres for practising things in every key.  Here’s another example of using a harmonic…

Here’s a thing you can use to practise in all keys. Take all 12 keys and arrange them into four groups. The groups are organised…