GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes Part 10 – Getting into Modal Arpeggios – Triads
Hello everyone!! I’ll be delving into individual modes in more depth in the coming weeks and months ahead but as a preliminary step, I wanted to get into modal arpeggios a bit as they’ll be important components in future lessons. . Scales = Chords . Since chords and scales are made up of the building blocks … Read more
Interviews, Updates and Gigs….oh my!
Hello everyone - Just a few quick updates. Guitar-Muse Interviews My new interview with Rob Nishida and Lucian Lu of Origin Guitars just got posted on Guitar-Muse. You can read that here. I’m in the final editing stage of the epic 40 page Miroslav Tadic interview. I’ve got questions out to Magneto Guitars and Strandberg Guitarworks … Read more
The Perils of Panaceas and Instant Gratification
That’s MBTI to you, Buster! Most people have their first exposure to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment either in a college psychology class, a life coaching session, work-related retreat / team building exercise. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the test, participants are given a (psychologically loaded) questionnaire that’s been specifically devised … Read more
GuitArchitecture Printed Book Editions Are Now Available!!
Hello Everyone! Just a quick note to say that the bound editions of The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes: Melodic Patterns, The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes: Harmonic Combinatorics and The GuitArchitect’s Positional Exploration are finally done!! They’re all available on Lulu.com (and soon on Amazon). You can order any of the books in hardcopy (or pdf form) … Read more
The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 9 – Visualizing Melodic and Harmonic Minor
A while ago, I had posted that given an hour, I could get almost anyone at an intermediate level to visualize any of the Major, Melodic Minor or Harmonic Minor modes anywhere on the guitar. In this overdue return to the serialization of the guide to modes book – I guess this is my put … Read more
