The Horizontal Soloing System
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After paying close attention to how Steve Vai's hands move up and down the fretboard, I concluded that his thinking was far more horizontal than vertical, and I wanted to replicate that kind of movement. What's more, it has always felt more natural to me to play up and down the neck horizontally rather than vertically, and when I finally got around to exploring horizontal movement on the guitar, I was blown away by the amount of freedom I had. My melodic sensibility developed, and I generally felt a whole lot more confident when I went to take a solo.
In this eBook you'll learn a single sequence that unlocks the major scale and all its modes, then we'll apply the same logic to harmonic minor, melodic minor and their modes, and to the pentatonic scales, so you can improvise across the entire neck without box patterns.
Revised for 2026: a chapter on the left-hand technique horizontal playing actually depends on, four worked phrases in tab so you can hear what the system gives you, and a printable page with every master sequence in the book on one sheet.
In this eBook you'll learn a single sequence that unlocks the major scale and all its modes, then we'll apply the same logic to harmonic minor, melodic minor and their modes, and to the pentatonic scales, so you can improvise across the entire neck without box patterns.
Revised for 2026: a chapter on the left-hand technique horizontal playing actually depends on, four worked phrases in tab so you can hear what the system gives you, and a printable page with every master sequence in the book on one sheet.