Welcome to the Taylor Guitars Lessons page. We'll be tapping the talents of different Taylor guitar artists to bring you tips and techniques in a series of instructional videos that will help you take your playing to the next level. We want this to be an interactive experience, so we invite you to post comments and questions to our guitar instructors, who will respond online. Your comments will also help map out future guitar lesson topics.
Practicing guitar scales builds muscle memory but can leave you stuck in a rut. Grammy winning Taylor Artist, Wayne Johnson, shows you a different way to approach scales, one that will help you recognize shapes, groupings, intervals and symmetry. By concentrating on single-string and random scale-note practice, you’ll learn to break free of muscle memory and improve your melodic development.
This is a companion video to Wayne Johnson's article, "Breaking the Mold," from the summer 2011 issue of Wood&Steel. Download a PDF of the article here.