Why My Solos Always Sounded Like Scales
(Even After Years of Practice)
The missing decision most players were never taught.
If that video clarified why your solos keep falling back into scale patterns,
you are in the right place.
For a Long Time, I Assumed the Problem Was Me
I knew my scales.
I practiced consistently.
My fingers worked just fine.
But every time I improvised, something felt wrong.
My solos sounded correct, but not musical.
Busy, but not intentional.
Like I was moving around inside shapes instead of actually saying anything.
No matter how much I practiced, the result stayed the same.
Everything I Tried Failed in the Same Way…
I did what everyone does.
I learned more scales.
More positions.
More patterns.
I worked on speed.
On phrasing.
On timing.
Every method promised the same thing.
More freedom.More expression.
More melody.
But they all broke down at the same moment.
The moment the chords moved.
As soon as the harmony changed, I froze.
Or I defaulted back to running shapes and hoping something landed.
That is when I started noticing a pattern.
The Pattern Nobody Talks About
Most guitar instruction teaches you what notes are available.
Very little of it teaches you how to choose the notes that matter.
Every system I learned gave me options.
None of them gave me direction.
I could see the fretboard.
I just did not know where the music wanted to go.
That explained everything.
Why some players could play fewer notes and sound incredible.
Why others played nonstop and still sounded lost.
It was not about knowledge.
It was about decision making.
And almost nobody was teaching that directly.
I Started Looking for the “Missing Piece”
At that point, I stopped searching for tricks.
I started looking for something very specific.
A way to train musical decisions.
Not intellectually.
Not theoretically.
But automatically.
Something that would teach you how to recognize important notes as the chords move and land on them without stopping to think.
I expected this to be complicated.
What I found was shockingly simple.
The System That Finally Made It Click
The entire approach was built around one idea.
Not all notes are equal.
Some notes pull the music forward.
Others do not.
Once you learn how to recognize those notes, everything changes.
The fretboard starts to feel connected.
Phrases resolve naturally.
Guessing disappears.
What surprised me was not that this worked.
It was that nobody was talking about it.
At this point, I knew whether this was for me.
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I Could Not Believe How Obscure This Was
At first, I assumed this was a new concept.
Some recent breakthrough.
Some trendy framework.
It was neither.
So I started digging into where it came from.
That is when I found the training behind it.
It was called The 4 Step Melodic Soloing Blueprint.
And the deeper I looked, the stranger it became.
The Guy Behind It Was Practically Invisible
The instructor was not a YouTube personality.
Not a social media brand.
Not someone constantly pushing himself into the spotlight.
In fact, I was shocked I had never heard of him.
His name is Rob Garland.
He had been quietly doing this work for decades.
Teaching.
Refining.
Solving this exact problem for real players in real musical situations.
He had taught professionally.
Written instructional material.
Worked with serious musicians.
And yet almost nobody knew about this approach.
That made no sense to me.
Why This Should Not Be Obscure
Once you see this way of thinking, you cannot unsee it.
You hear music differently.
You see the fretboard differently.
And you finally understand why so many players stay stuck for years while doing everything they were told to do.
They were never taught how to choose.
This system does exactly that.
Not through memorization.
Not through theory overload.
But by training your ear, your eyes, and your instincts to work together.
What This Training Actually Focuses On
This is not about adding more material.
It is about isolating the skills that actually matter.
- Seeing where important notes live across the neck
- Hearing where the music wants to resolve
- Moving between notes with intention
- Using space and phrasing to shape ideas
Everything is taught through real musical examples.
No long lists of licks.
No abstract exercises that never translate.
Just better musical judgment, trained until it becomes natural.
Who This Tends to Work Best For…
This approach resonates most with players who already know some basics but feel stuck when they improvise.
- You know scale shapes but still sound mechanical
- You are unsure where to land when chords move
- Musicality matters more than speed or flash
You do not need to be advanced.
You do need to be willing to listen and apply what you hear.
Why I Am Sharing This
I am sharing this because it solved a problem I had been trying to fix for years.
And because I could not believe how quietly it was sitting there while so many players stayed stuck.
If you have ever felt like your solos sound like scales no matter how much you practice, this is worth looking at.
Continuing With the Training
The full 4 Step Melodic Soloing Blueprint is available now.
The full training is currently available for $77.
(It normally sells for $149.)
You get immediate access and can move through it at your own pace.
There is a 14 day guarantee,
so you can explore it without risk.
Final Thought
I spent years thinking I was missing information.
What I was missing was direction.
This was the first system I found that addressed that directly.
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