The Alexander Technique isn’t a niche therapy or a series of physical exercises — it’s a way of noticing and changing habitual patterns of tension…

Triads are everywhere — but most guitarists use them purely as chord shapes and never realise they are also the key to melodic, intelligent soloing….

Scott Henderson needs almost no introduction — but what he said in this masterclass about arpeggios, voice leading, and the way most guitarists study the…

Most guitarists learn their scales in closed, transposable shapes and quietly assume that open-position fingerings are a bit of a dead end. That was my…

Most guitarists treat warming up as a chore — something to endure before the real practice begins. But once you understand what’s actually happening in…

Most scale-based improvisation eventually hits a ceiling where everything starts to sound like the same familiar patterns. Triad pairs and trichord pairs are the tool…

Every great player has a sonic fingerprint — a unique way of colouring and shaping their notes that’s immediately recognisable. It’s not just about what…

The phrase “tension and release” gets thrown around constantly in music education, but it only tells half the story — and the way it’s usually…

The ear is the instrument that drives everything else. Before your fingers can phrase musically, before your solos can breathe, before your rhythm playing can…

Every guitarist working on changes has a few dominant cycles under their fingers — but most players stop at the cycle of fourths and never…