As guitarists, we’re always seeking out comfortable, convenient scale fingerings that also help us best visualize shapes on the fretboard. To this end, fingering schemes built around repeating ...

Robben Ford has spent his career carving out a musical buffer between blues, rock and jazz/fusion. That could be a recipe for slick blandness, but Robben creates something wonderful, combining the ...

Here’s my go-to practice routine for tackling altered dominant chords—especially those spicy #5/#9 voicings—and the diminished whole-tone scale (aka the 7th mode of the melodic minor). These sounds ...