#daniel seriff

Are you stuck sounding “scale-y” every time you try to solo? You’re not alone. In this lesson, I’ll show you five powerful exercises that will help you break out of the pentatonic box, play more confidently across the neck, and finally sound musical when you improvise. These aren’t your typical scale drills. Each one is designed to help you play with more expression and creativity, so your solos actually sound like music. We’ll dig into note and string groupings, intervals, essential “decorations” like hammer-ons and slides, and a repetition exercise that will instantly make your solos more memorable. I’ll walk you through each step, showing you how to turn these exercises into real music, not just patterns.

0:00 The Only Blues System You Need 0:28 What a 12-Bar Blues Really Is 1:05 Dominant Blues (1–4–5 Made Simple) 2:10 Easy Chord Shapes That Work Anywhere 3:50 The “L Shape” Trick for Any Key 5:30 Playing the Full 12-Bar Form 7:15 Why This Isn’t Actually Minor Blues 8:45 Minor Blues (What Changes) 10:15 The Turnaround Most Players Get Wrong 11:40 Putting It All Together

A lesson to help expand your diagonal or box pentatonic playing. You can use the 3 fret shift to confidently shift up and down any string between boxes or diagonal pentatonic scales. 0:00 Intro 0:51 Diagonal Major Pentatonic Review 4:02 Using 3 Fret Shift With Diagonal Major Pentatonic 8:33 Diagonal Minor Pentatonic Review 10:06 Using 3 Fret Shift With Diagonal Minor Pentatonic 10:59 Using the diagonal with blue note and 3 fret shift 12:03 Single String Constraint Practice Soloing

In this lesson I share one of the simplest patterns to play arpeggios across the neck. This pattern is insanely flexible and will allow you to play the 5 essential types of 7th chords. In this video I share the major 7th, dominant 7th, and minor 7th arpeggios.

0:00 Intro 1:34 What are Diagonal Pentatonics? 2:23 Major Pentatonic 7:29 Minor Pentatonic 9:49 Transitioning Between Shapes 11:03 Don't Sound "Scaley" 13:18 Outro

In this lesson, I walk you through 3 exercises that will IMMEDIATELY make you a better guitar soloist. I’m so thankful these ideas were shared with me by great teachers over the years and I’ve been able to develop them into my own thing.

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