Bobby Kittleberger

Make the most of your practice time—and to improve—even if you don’t have hours to spare

If you can hear what’s going on in these patterns and replicate it in other musical situations, then you’ve built a crucial foundational tool for improvising.

Learn and memorize three of the most common major pentatonic scale shapes.

Use patterns derived from pentatonic scales to build fretboard control and dexterity.

Does having a digital device in your signal chain downgrade the "organic-ness" of your sound?

Your guitar solos will always sound a little predictable to your own ear. But what if you’re doing something that’s causing your solos and lead work to sound bland?

Add a ton of variety to your rhythm riffs with a fairly small amount of guitar music theory.