by Paul Roth | Nov 9, 2017 | Lead, Scales, Solo
This week’s post is inspired by one of our subscribers so thanks again for all you support, readership and feedback. For any beginner player (and even intermediate or advanced) improvisation can be daunting, I’ve seen this many times on...
by Paul Roth | Sep 16, 2017 | Scales
Hey there, today we have a more advanced topic, delving into the world of jazz with “the altered scale”. What is the altered scale? The altered scale is the Locrian mode (built on the 7th degree) of the melodic minor scale – quick side note...
by Paul Roth | Feb 3, 2017 | Scales
As you may have seen in last week’s blog – Approaching Scales – I mentioned playing through modes and promised to deal with that next week. Well last week’s next week is this week, so here we are. Firstly, what are modes? A mode...
by Paul Roth | Jan 27, 2017 | Practice, Scales
Hello Readers! In this blog so far we have talked a bit about scales, both with the Importance of Learning Scales and also with a Focused Scales Practice Session. I now want to look at approaching learning these scales so you can get the most out of them....
by Paul Roth | Jan 20, 2017 | Chords, Practice, Scales
Short practice sessions Hello all and happy new year! This post is actually inspired by one of my readers Matt so I’m very excited to write this and thank you very much for your input!!! As we all know, it can be very easy for life to take over and...
by Paul Roth | Aug 11, 2016 | Scales
Since I’m still a newbie to the blog world, I thought for my 2nd blog I would tackle a subject that’s quite easy to prove – The importance of learning (and memorising… and practicing… and applying) scales. Admittedly, this is not the most fun topic but if you...
