Can Guitar Music Theory Destroy Music for Pleasure?

If you really understand guitar music theory and how to apply music theory to guitar, are you forced to analyze everything you listen to, or can you shut it off whenever you want?

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7 Reasons Why You Should Learn and Master Guitar Scales

a minor scale with a minor barre chord 2

You’ve heard that you should learn to play guitar scales, but let’s be honest…you would rather play your favourite guitar songs instead of playing boring old guitar scales.

So is it really worth investing some of your limited practice time into learning and mastering guitar scales?

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Guitar Practice Checklist: The Top 10 Things You Must Have to Not Waste Guitar Practice Time

Guitar Practice Checklist

One of the keys to getting the most out of your practice sessions is to make sure you don’t waste any of valuable practice time. Here is checklist to help save you time…

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Guitar Solos: Using a Cool Hybrid Pentatonic Scale to Add Variety to Your Own Guitar Solos

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It’s quite common for guitar players to get stuck in a pentatonic rut. All your guitar solos start to sound the same. The good news is there are many ways to break out of this pentatonic rut. We look at one here…

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How to Add Variety to Your Guitar Solos with a Cool Japanese Minor Pentatonic Scale Part 2

A Hirajoshi in groups of 4

Today we look at additional ways to practice the Hirajoshi scale, a chord vamp that you can use to practice soloing with this scale, and we will look at creating your own guitar solo with this scale.

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