Guitar Melodic Guide

Identify important goals and break down melodic elements including scales, keys, sharps & flats.

Clear and thorough look at the major scale and its most common fretboard pattern.

Clear and thorough look at the minor scale and its most common fretboard pattern.

Clear and thorough look at the minor pentatonic scale and its most common fretboard pattern.

Learn how scale theory is used to match scales to keys.

Review topics and apply what you’ve learned in a practice routine.

Start using bends, slides, hammer ons and pull offs in your guitar playing.  Learn the techniques and when to use them.

Learn to correctly articulate these fretboard techniques and how to effectively practice them within a minor pentatonic scale.  This sets the stage for your fingers to work more efficiently for soloing and improvisation.

Sliding is such a characteristic technique for guitar that every guitarist needs to know how to do.  Here, we’ll introduce this important embellishment and look at how to practice it.

String bends are one of the most challenging to master because (1) it takes strength and dexterity to bend the string, (2) it takes precision and control to bend half/whole tones and (3) you need to learn to NOT crash into other strings in a way that makes unwanted string noise.

Get hands on with hammer ons, pull offs, slides and bends in this simple assignment/project designed to help you consolidate what you’ve learned.

Learn how to create modal chord progressions and use familiar scale patterns to improvise over them.

Start to uncover the way that melody and chords are integrated musically AND can be played simultaneously on the guitar!