One of the most useful exercises I prescribe for beginner students is improvisation. I like to practice basic improvisation even with my strictly classical students. Learning to improvise is synonymous with listening. When you improvise over a rhythmic pattern you really have to listen to what you are doing and fit into that rhythmic groove. [...]
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Major Scale Position Patterns
I first learned these patterns at jazz school but later rediscovered them in the Aaron Shearer Third Supplement – Classical Guitar Technique -Scale Patterns (Buy it at Sheet Music Plus). They are fundamental patterns that don’t involve any stretches over multiple frets as you might see in jazz books like the Leavitt Berklee book or [...]
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