(click for larger image) This pattern is based on the same essential principle as the previous pattern ; a set of arpeggios in X shape...

(click for larger image) The pattern of this exercise doesn't just look pretty, it expresses the innate symmetry of the diatonic sy...

There are two "Superzones" on the fretboard; the Phrygian and the Aeolian. In any key, the Phrygian Superzone   runs from the Ph...

The VII Zone is one of two fretboard positions which require no hand shifts. It contains a full two octave range in the Locrian (VII), Ion...

3rds riffs add a lot to any musical vocabulary. In this blog we've looked at a number of ways to approach 3rds on the fret board. This ...

The image of the guitar above is positioned essentially as you would see it holding it in playing position. Perhaps one of the...

The notes of the "Orbit Pattern" in the previous post can be played in a smaller pattern I like to call the "Inner Orbit...