Guitar skills: let's get one thing straight – you don't need to know a lot of scales to be a good guitarist. In fact, if you've been playing for under a year you could quite safely get away with only ...

Most guitar players will be familiar with the minor pentatonic scale and will have memorised its pattern and intervals to deploy it liberally when soloing. It was probably the first scale many of us ...

With the intermediate status, one has learned some basic chords and strum patterns so those initial thrills are gone, and now the interest lies with further technical proficiency, melodic fluency, and ...