50 Guitar Hacks for the Advancing Guitarist

For players stuck on the intermediate plateau.

You know your chords and a few scales. You can get through a song and take a solo. But progress has slowed, the same licks keep coming out, and it isn't obvious what to do next. Most books are either too basic or assume you're already a jazz virtuoso.

This book is for that stage. It's the third in the Guitar Hacks series and it's aimed a bit higher than the first two: fifty mini-lessons, insights and practical tricks for getting past your comfort zone and making real progress again.

This is the tenth anniversary edition, revised and expanded throughout. Every hack has been rewritten, and the ones that repeated the earlier books have been replaced with new material. Every diagram has been redrawn with interval labels, and every hack ends with a short exercise to try.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Move beyond the pentatonic scale
• Superimpose triads for jazz and fusion sounds without learning new scales
• Learn sweep picking one hand at a time
• Play the minor pentatonic scale over almost any chord
• Solo with chord tones, and play over changes without getting frustrated
• Use rhythmic displacement to get more out of fewer notes
• Find out what to learn next when you've run out of ideas

What you get: a 117-page PDF, 8 x 10 inches, with clickable contents and print-quality diagrams. Read it on any screen or print the pages you're working on.

You don't need the first two books to use this one, although it refers to them now and then.