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Exploring triads

Post author:oleksii
Post published:November 22, 2020
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While watching some lessons from Tomo Fujita I have realized that I have never consciously learned triads while I did apply a couple of shapes. It is time to explore more!

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Blues soloing

Post author:oleksii
Post published:October 11, 2020
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I love playing blues. The swing feel and an expressive solo brings my soul to a different dimension and let my thoughts fly away. Exactly what you need after a hard work week. Wait wasn’t blues not all about hard work and… OK, let stick to techniques.

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Building my first speaker cab

Post author:oleksii
Post published:June 28, 2020
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Looking around for a cab matching my little Marshall DSL1HR I couldn’t find a compact one with a descent speaker and for a reasonable price. At certain point an idea came to build my own cab. I was set on target in no time…

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Building my first speaker cab (part 2)

Post author:oleksii
Post published:June 28, 2020
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This is the second part of the article on building my first own cab. Read the first part here….

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Pedalboard: tuner pedals

Post author:oleksii
Post published:May 24, 2020
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So you’re starting with your first pedal board setup. A tuner is a must have first item in the chain and it may actually provide more than you think!

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Review of affordable tuner pedals (and more)

Post author:oleksii
Post published:May 24, 2020
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In this article I review of several tuner pedal models (and some others too!). See the first part of the article for the introduction on the tuner pedals.

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New strings day: D’Addario XTE1046 (and more)

Post author:oleksii
Post published:May 17, 2020
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This time I decided go to for something new and try out the D’Addario XTE range.

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Introduction to the major scale modes

Post author:oleksii
Post published:April 28, 2020
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Sooner or later the subject of modes will appear on the horizon. While definitely not the first thing to learn it is an important tool for expressing oneself and to be able to solo over different chord types found in blues, rock or jazz.

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Memorizing notes on the fretboard

Post author:oleksii
Post published:April 25, 2020
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OK, at some point of time you have to know the fretboard. The earlier the better, but as a beginner you can often get away with knowing only string names at best.

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