Autor: Graham Tippett

If you enjoyed the simple and intuitive and musical method that we used in the Intermediate Scales Handbook, you’ll be pleased to know you can easily use it to incorporate exotic scales into your pla …

The aim of this book is very simple: to provide a visual method for playing any major scale mode all over the fretboard from any root note without having to do any ‘working out’ in your head. It’s a …

I actually wrote this book as a practice guide for myself because I wanted a way to get different and outside sounds using pentatonic scales, as well as to improve my chops and have a huge variety of …

Hacking the CAGED System: Diatonic Harmony is both a stand-alone ingenious system that teaches you to construct all the components of any key signature on the guitar fretboard, as well as following o …

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 20 …

Hacking the CAGED System – Book 2 picks up where Book 1 left off as we go deeper into scales, chords, arpeggios and harmony to expand our range of harmonic expression on the guitar, as well as provid …

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 pent …

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 s …

‘Scales and Arpeggios’ has been painstakingly updated and revised in order to build on the ‘2 Position Guitar Scale System: An Introduction’ Book (also available) by expanding the reach of the 2 Posi …

So, you’ve learned your scale patterns all over the neck either through the CAGED System, the 3NPS shapes, or some other method, but your solos still don’t sound like music? I know the feeling, and I …

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 ma …

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 melod …

I was watching a You Tube 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- …

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-strin …

The Woodshedder’s Guide to Guitar Scales came about after a request from a student. Obsessed with scales, she wanted a practice regime that allowed to her to learn a considerable number of guitar sca …

Due to the rise in popularity of 8-string guitar, as well as the added complexity of learning scales, chords and arpeggios on the instrument, we’ve come up with a novel system for learning scales and …

When it comes to scales and improvising, the guitar fretboard is a maze, and this is both good and bad… Well, instead of bad, let’s say it’s ‘challenging’ because like any maze it’s easy to get lost, …

This book is for anyone who wants to get modes up and running on the guitar fretboard with the minimum amount of fuss and without long-winded theory explanations. What you’ll find here is the theory …

The Advancing Guitarist faces many challenges on the instrument, yet it is one of the most exciting periods in a player’s development. This e Book features hacks, mini-lessons, insights, tricks and t …

In this book, I’d like to show you what I discovered about teaching scales to intermediate guitarists, as well as the one thing that really made a difference to their ability to improvise in a musica …

There’s a little more than meets the eye when making the transition from 6 to 7-string guitar. Reference books for the 7-string guitar have their uses but what’s lacking is an actual method for apply …

Ever since my first guitar teacher introduced me to the music of Allan Holdsworth in the late 90s, it has been an ongoing apprenticeship. I became fascinated, not only with his music, but with his ap …

This is a soloing system I came up with for intermediate guitarists based on exploring the sounds of blues-rock improvisation which involves minimal theory, while focusing on concepts you can apply t …

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 H …

Over more than two decades of playing guitar, I’ve come to see the Dorian scale as one of the most useful in modern music. More than just a mode of the major scale, it transcends genres and playing s …

Scale Fluency – Pentatonics will give you the complete picture for any pentatonic scale across the entire guitar neck. In essence, it’s a practice method that ties all those loose ends together that …

Scale Fluency – Harmonic Minor Modes will give you the complete picture for any harmonic minor scale and its modes across the entire guitar neck. In essence, it’s a practice method that ties all thos …

Scale Fluency – Melodic Minor Modes will give you the complete picture for any melodic minor scale mode from any root across the entire guitar neck. In essence, it’s a practice method that ties all t …

Scale Fluency – Major Scale Modes will give you the complete picture for any major scale mode in any key across the entire guitar neck. In essence, it’s a practice method that ties all those loose en …