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SOLOING SECRETS: THE HIRAJOSHI SCALE

Scales are funny things. They’re incredibly important to understanding how music works, and they function as great finger exercises too. But at a certain point they can become little cages, if you let them. Sometimes you’ll find the perfect note lurking outside of the scale you’re using for the rest of the song or solo – this is the kind of thinking that most likely led to the flatted fifth being added to the

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