by Andrew Scrivens | Mar 11, 2018 | Learn To Improvise
Improvisation is one of the most exciting aspects of playing music and is a direct manifestation of our desire to create, express ourselves, and jam with other musicians. Learning to improvise and expand one’s improvisational skills are among the most common goals... 
by Andrew Scrivens | Dec 21, 2017 | HOW To Learn Guitar
Common Questions from People Learning The Guitar This is a series of in-depth conversations between me and many students over the years about the difficulties that they have faced on their journey of learning the guitar and how we have overcome them. Note: this is... 
by Andrew Scrivens | Apr 5, 2016 | HOW To Learn Guitar
Feel The Music When You Play We always hear the phrases like a guitarist’s “touch” and that one should “feel the music” associated with great players and other musicians but it’s easy to overlook the significance of these particular... 
by Andrew Scrivens | Jul 28, 2015 | Learn To Improvise
Pentatonic Scales We have made it this far which means you should now know at least 1 major scale position (but most likely a few or even all 5) and be able to use it/them in a creative way, playing little melodies and phrases, using all parts of the position... 
by Andrew Scrivens | Jul 28, 2015 | Learn To Improvise
Transitioning Between Thinking Major and Minor Ok, so it’s probably getting clear that the major and minor scales can really be thought of as the same pattern but with different root note positions within that pattern. Often they will seem to be described...