Australian Guitar

MODERN THEORY

This issue we are taking a look at two concepts that I hope will break you out of any improvisation ruts you may find yourself in. The first two exercises are designed to help you break out of the pentatonic box shapes and give you some ideas on how to develop your own scale runs and pentatonic riffs. These exercises also help to bridge and create scale runs between the minor pentatonic box

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