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Lead Guitar Scales The CAGED System

The CAGED System 2: The Major Scale and the Minor Pentatonic Scale

In CAGED Part 1, we saw how the CAGED system can be used to help beginner-intermediate players to visualise the chords shapes across the fretboard. Today we’ll apply the same idea to scale shapes.

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Lead Guitar Lead Guitar Tone Tone

Lead Tone 3: Distortion

In the previous articles we’ve looked at the main ingredients of a lead guitar tone, which were; distortion, frequency curves, and dynamics. Today we are going to look more closely at distortion and how we can manipulate it to gives us control and flexibility of tone.

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General Tips and Ideas Lead Guitar Lead Guitar Tone Tone

Lead Tone 2: Core Concepts for Good Tone

This post looks at the balancing act of getting a good tone.

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General Tips and Ideas Lead Guitar Lead Guitar Tone Tone

Lead Tone 1: Basics of Guitar Tone

This is the first in a series of posts which examine, in detail, the basis of lead guitar tone. This introduction covers the basics of frequency response, distortion and dynamics.