This time we’ll pick up the thread with more ways to expand your abilities and resources with motifs.

In this installment of Essential Guitar we’ll look at one of the most striking and useful of symmetrical scales: the diminished scale.

This episode of Essential Guitar concludes our three-part look at the diminished scale and completes step one in the bigger area of symmetrical scales.

Like the diminished scale the whole tone scale is based on an underlying chord, in this case an augmented chord.

This installment will take you into the outer reaches of the symmetrical scale galaxy.

In this episode of Essential Guitar we’ll be looking at another aspect of guitar music closely related to symmetrical scales.

Canada’s premier rock band is an adventurous power trio whose potent mix of metal, power pop and progressive styles is designed to give any listener a Rush.

We’ve all heard the well-worn cliché, “Less is more.” In music it is an axiom with many applications and expressions. Consider the humble tritone dyad.

As you discovered in the last episode the tritone dyad has leanness and a utility that invites unlimited harmonic applications, especially in blues and rock styles.

With so much information available it is often a daunting task to put the material into action. Students often ask: Where do I start?