Unlock The Guitar: 14 books

I was watching a YouTube video a while back where Lee Anderton (of Anderton’s fame) gets a guitar lesson from Ariel Posen. Ariel tries his best to teach him a few things in a very thorough and well-meaning way, but about half-way through Lee says something along the lines of, ‘Just teach me the...

Tune your B and E strings up to C and F respectively and you're in all fourths tuning. The first time I did this it was truly a revelation to me to have a symmetrical fretboard and get rid of that major third 'bump' from the G to B string in standard tuning. Everything suddenly became far more manageable...

The Hacking the CAGED System series was inspired by my own,and other guitarist’s frustrations with the infamous CAGED System for learning guitar. It all started back in Music College in the early 2000s, at the ACM in Guildford (UK) to be precise, where we were handed, by none other than Guthrie...

Following on from, ‘Fourths Tuning – Chords and Inversions’, I wanted to share a number of ways to see scales and arpeggios in fourths tuning that really take advantage of having a fretboard with a symmetrical layout. This book is divided into three sections. In the first, we look at...

Guitar Hacks are clever ways to do things on guitar. These hacks are based on 20 years of hindsight so that you can get to where you want to be with your playing quicker, and more efficiently, whatever your current level. Here's exactly what you'll get an insight into in this eBook: How to Remember...

There’s a beautiful symmetry about modes in fourths tuning (E, A, D, G, C, F or any variation thereof) that’s well-worth exploring, which is why I’ve dedicated an entire book to it. With that B-string bump out of the way, we’re free to explore modes both as scales in their own right and as...

A lot of students ask me how they can take their improvisation skills to the next level and move beyond pentatonic scales and into modes and arpeggios. My response is to tell them not to abandon pentatonic scales in favor of modes and other soloing devices, but to use them as a springboard and a solid...

Due to the fantastic response to the first book in this series, ’50 Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man’s Guitarist’, it gives me immense pleasure to bring you this second installment; 50 More Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man’s Guitarist. My hope is to again provide you with timely insight...

If you're looking for a system in order to learn to improvise on guitar that's not based on endless patterns and boring scale exercises, or if you're struggling to improvise on guitar because you can't make sense of scales, or apply them in a practical way, this method is for you. With just 2 scale...

I came across the 2 Position Guitar Scale System several years ago when I was fooling around in an altered tuning – fourths tuning to be precise – and wondered if I could apply the same logic to standard tuning to teach scales and arpeggios using only two patterns per scale instead of the usual...

Take your guitar improvisation skills to the next level with the 2 Position Scale System - Intermediate eBook. The beauty of the 2 Position System is that there are only 2 scale patterns to learn per scale instead of the usual 5 or 7 allowing you to play scales all over the fretboard in a matter of...

If you ask anyone who's been playing guitar for a while how to turn scales into solos, you'll likely get a variety of answers. They'll tell you to learn licks, work on your arpeggios, even learn your favorite players' solos note for note. While this is all good advice, I've had some particularly stubborn...

Have you ever seen those guitarists that sound like they know exactly what they’re doing when they’re improvising? They just seem to hit all the right notes while their playing sounds crisp and melodic, as if they’d planned it all out beforehand, or were born with a God-given sense of melody....

After more than 20 years of learning, teaching and using the modes this is my definitive guide to their understanding and application. We’ll be looking at the modes from three key perspectives then leveraging the knowledge gained to provide you with a more complete picture of the modes, and the...