We’re kicking off a deep dive into the whole-half diminished scale—your secret weapon for both inside and outside playing. Symmetrical, slippery, and surprisingly versatile, this week’s routine sets the foundation for making it a real part of your voice.
We’re taking last week’s diminished scale work and flipping it upside down—literally. This week is all about descending diminished lines, applying them to a classic jazz blues move, and training your brain to resolve them musically from anywhere on the neck.
This week’s routine reveals a powerful shortcut: treat dominant 7 chords as 7b9s and use diminished 7 shapes to simplify your scale choices. We apply this to a ii–V–I–VI progression, using diminished substitutions to unlock new sounds and clean fretboard logic.
We’re wrapping up the modes with Locrian—a tense, unstable sound built on the m7♭5 chord. This lesson helps you hear and play Locrian clearly, using arpeggios, scales, and targeted melodic shapes.
This lesson explores Locrian using a creative modal progression (Ab/C to Gb/C), with 10 expressive licks designed to stretch your technique and ear. Learn the phrases, then use them as inspiration to shape your own.
This week shifts our focus from learning to practicing, with 12 arpeggio-based workouts designed to build rhythmic clarity and control. It’s all about deepening your groove, not just adding more information.
These 10 licks build on last week’s cross-picking foundation, blending C, F, and G arpeggios into more fluid, melodic phrases. The focus is rhythmic control and harmonic color—not just running shapes.
This routine may look simple, but it reveals whether your fundamentals are truly solid. If the basics still trip you up, don’t rush ahead—this is the perfect chance to build real fluency.
This week’s all about locking into the E shape and seeing how far we can stretch it across a minor progression. With a chromatic warmup, pentatonic and blues scale drills, and two licks run through five key centers, this is focused, hands-on fretboard work.
This routine flips the usual order of pentatonic practice by cycling shapes out of sequence over a minor chord progression. It’s a focused workout in fretboard mapping and root-note awareness—no autopilot allowed.