Product Overview
The Advancing Guitarist faces many challenges on the instrument, yet it is one of the most exciting periods in a players development. This eBook features hacks, mini-lessons, insights, tricks and tips to push you past your new-found comfort zone and make real progress on the instrument. You will reach many plateaus as you progress on guitar, and these are fantastic opportunities to do something different, and to learn something new while deepening the knowledge youve already acquired. This eBook provides solutions to many of the issues faced by guitarists on the intermediate plateau, those stuck in a rut, or those simply wishing to break into advanced territory on the instrument. I hope to be a facilitator on this journey, and help you get to where you want to be with your guitar playing. Here's what we'll be getting into in this 50 Guitar Hacks eBook: 1. The Secret to Fast Playing that Everyone Overlooks 2. How to Move Beyond Pentatonic Scales 3. Do You Need a Mentor Rather than a Teacher? 4. How to Get into Melodic Soloing 5. How to Use the Other Four Minor Pentatonic Boxes 6. Why Your Solos Still Sound like Scales and How to Turn It Around 7. Whats Your Specialty? 8. When to Learn the Notes on the Neck 9. How to Get the Gig 10. How to Learn New Scales without Learning New Patterns 11. How to Balance Your Pickups for a Sharper Sound 12. Write This Down Before Every Practice Session 13. How to Get Free Gear 14. Buy Tons of Picks 15. The Hendrix Chord and When to Use It 16. How to Johnny B. Goode Any Scale 17. Scale Fragments: Practice This to Increase Your Speed 18. Repetition Is Only Half the Story 19. Split the Fretboard 20. Zone in to Improve Your Phrasing 21. Take Advantage of Your Own Hindsight 22. How to Spice Up Your Chord/Rhythm Playing 23. How to Memorize New Material Faster 24. The Hearing Lag 25. Beyond the Hendrix Chord 26. The Reason You Find Chord Tone Soloing Hard 27. The Real Meaning of Less is More 28. Stop Learning Guitar Solos 29. Sweep Picking Made Easy 30. How to Play the Minor Pentatonic Scale Over Almost Anything 31. 4 Neglected Pentatonic Scales 32. Are You Using Your Best Picking Technique? 33. What Do I Use This for? 34. How to Know What to Learn Next 35. How to Make the Most of Backing Tracks 36. How to Tap into an Infinite Supply of Riffs, Licks and Ideas 37. Instant Jazz/Fusion Soloing with 9-Note Scales 38. How to Take the Tedium Out of Learning Arpeggios 39. Improve Your Phrasing with the Pivot Technique 40. The Law of Overcompensation and Fretting Hand Strength 41. The Best Books for Learning to Sight Read 42. How to Find the Right Gear for You 43. If You Use Tablature, You Must Do This 44. The Dreaded, Now Practice This in All 12 Keys 45. Is It Time to Forget Scales? 46. More Than Repertoire 47. Make Time for Noodling 48. A Healthy Obsession You Should Have 49. How to Play Over Changes without Getting Frustrated 50. Are There Any Skeletons in Your Musical Closet?
