The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 12 – Getting Into Modal Arpeggios – Superimpostion
Hello everyone! Greetings from NYC! While I’m still unpacking and waiting for instruments and boxes to make it here from South Pasadena I thought I’d mix and match a few ideas from my GuitArchitect’s Guide to Chord Scales book and modal arpeggios and talk about more ways to recycle things you already know! . 2-string or … Read more
The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Chord Scales Is Out Now (As Well As The New 4 Book Pdf Bundle!)
The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Chord Scales . I’m happy to announce that the Chord Scale book is done (with the help of massive edits from John Harper and Doug Kearns – thank you both!)! . I’ll talk about it a little more below – but as a shortcut there are 3 ways to buy the … Read more
GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes Part 11 – Geting Into Modal Arpeggios – 7th chords
Hello everyone!! In the previous modal arpeggio lesson, I covered how to visualize triads from 3-note per string patterns. In this post, I’m going to apply the same concept to 7th chords. If you haven’t checked out part 10 of the series, you may want to review the approach before moving on. . Major Scale Harmonization … Read more
Moves large and small, a new interview and a new book by 3/23
Hey everyone, Just a quick update! I have been a little out of the loop for the last month as I am relocating to NYC. This is long overdue and a very good thing – but ultra time-consuming in the meantime. This doesn’t mean that everything else is inactive. There’s a new interview I did … Read more
Adversity or Why The Only White Knight Is On A Chess Board
I wanted to talk about adversity today because while many people do whatever they can to avoid it (and avoid dealing with it), life’s very nature requires that you will face adversity throughout your time on this planet. If you’re a working guitarist (or planning on becoming one), adversity is going to be as constant … Read more
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
