15 Guitar Hacks: A Free Sampler from the Guitar Hacks Series

Fifteen guitar hacks for your playing, not your gear.

Search “guitar hacks” and you’ll get tips on cleaning your strings and fixing a buzzing fret. These are the other kind: shortcuts, reframes and mistakes to avoid in how you learn and play.

This free sampler has five hacks from each of the three Guitar Hacks books, taken from the tenth anniversary editions. They’re complete hacks, exactly as they appear in the books. Each one ends with a short exercise to try, and every diagram is labeled with intervals, so you can see what each note is doing.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:



• Get more chords out of the shapes you already know
• Hear the modes before you learn the patterns
• Develop a vibrato that makes your solos sound better
• Land on the right notes in a blues
• Mute what you’re not playing, and clean up your sound
• Get four new sounds over a dominant chord from the pentatonic box you already know
• Build speed with two-string loops
• Use rhythmic displacement to get more out of fewer notes
• Superimpose triads for jazz and fusion sounds

There’s no set order. Start with whichever one looks useful today.

Format: PDF, 44 pages, 8 x 10 in. Free, or pay what you like.