#9: PATTERN-PLAYING CUTS YOU OFF FROM CENTURIES OF MELODIC WISDOM – When Historical Blindness Limits Your Musical Depth

I ask every new student the same question: “Why did you start playing guitar?” Some answers fascinate me. “Honestly? To meet girls!” “I wanted to impress someone I liked.” “My …

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#7: Developing Your Inner Melodic Library – Three exercises that build the melodic consciousness great guitarists use

When you study great melodies systematically, you build an internal library of melodic ideas. This becomes your creative arsenal – material you can draw from when improvising instead of repeating …

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#6: The Baroque Secret to Modern Guitar Solos – The 300-year-old melodic blueprint behind Gilmour, Malmsteen, and Satriani

Here’s something that fascinated me for years: even players who claim to be purely self-taught are using baroque melodic principles – they’ve absorbed them through the music they listened to and played. This …

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