The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 4 – Modes and Chords
Welcome to the fourth installment of the GuitArcitecture Mode Visualization lesson series. If you see anything unfamiliar here, you may want to check out part one, part two, part 3a or part 3b, of the series, but in the meantime, here’s a quick recap: . To Review: Any major scale can be broken down into … Read more
The GuitArchitect’s Positional Exploration Pre-Release Now Available
3/22/12 . While the official version of this book has been released as both a print and PDF version, I’m leaving this page up for historical purposes (and so that people who are interested in the book can get some more detailed information). Print book orders can be ordered through LULU.com. . Hello Everyone! . … Read more
POD HD and (OLDER) ATOMIC AMPS Part II – Taming the EQ
As a followup to part 1 of this post, I thought I’d talk about how to tweak patches to work with the Atomic. The current Atomic line is Full Range Response, so this is less of an issue – but for those of you on a budget, the earlier (all tube) Atomics, can be picked … Read more
Making Music Out Of Scales
Hello everyone, and welcome to the largest GuitArchitecture lesson I’ve ever put up online! . In this lesson (an excerpt of some ideas from my forthcoming GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes book), I’m going to talk about the difference between scales and music and show some concrete ways to adapt scales into unique phrases. . When … Read more
Making Sense Of The Pentatonic Scale – Diagonal Forms – Part One
Hello everyone!! After a lengthy delay – I’m posting the next part of the pentatonic lesson. The amount of information over the next few posts will keep some of you busy for a while. . A general online lesson note: . The lessons I post here typically go into quite a bit of detail with the … Read more
Some Thoughts On Modeling, Gear Acquisition And The POD HD500
The forums have been a flutter over the Fractal Audio announcement/release of a major upgrade to the Axe FX product line, the new Axe FX II. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the unit, The Axe FX is a high end modeler that emulates a number of amp tones and effects very well. . From … Read more
2 String Shapes or Making Sense Of The Pentatonic Minor Scale
Hi Everyone! . I’m getting closer to releasing my GuitArchitecture books, so I wanted to start posting on some of the material and approaches I cover there. I’ve already posted some information on the GuitArchitecture approach here, but I wanted to show how this is applied to visualizing sounds on the fretboard. I’m going to … Read more
Getting hipness from a major triad or more chord recycling part 3
In part one of this post, I looked at generating different major chord variations based on flatting the root and the 5th. In part 2, I sharped those pitches and then combined the two approaches to create additional chords and textures. In this post, I’m going to look at applying these chord tones to melodic … Read more
Line 6 POD HD Bean Announced
Yesterday, Line 6 announced that they were bringing back the desktop version (i.e. “the bean”) of the Pod and upgrading it to HD. The page is here. No specs on the page yet – just some really general information. For those of you using the earlier Pod series – Line 6 did something interesting with … Read more
Getting Hipness From A Major Triad Or More Chord Recycling Part 2
In part one of this post, I looked at generating different major chord variations based on flatting the root and the 5th. In this post, I’m looking at sharping those pitches and combining the two for additional textures (if you came here directly – you may want to review the A major variations in part … Read more
