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Stepping Outside
By Ben Kerrigan
$24.99
Stepping Outside teaches you how to play beyond scale-box habits using sidestepping, chromaticism, and pattern-based phrasing. Build modern, adventurous lines with fretboard fluency, rhythmic confidence, and creative control.
What you get:
Full course eBook in PDF format (150+ pages)
Professionally transcribed TAB and notation
HD video and audio examples for every exercise
Digital access on all your devices
Optional paperback available
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What you will learn 🎸
How to sidestep inside and outside pentatonic shapes
Dominant pentatonic, hexatonic, and chromatic scale applications
Visualization strategies across the CAGED system
Techniques for navigating non-diatonic chord changes
Rhythmic groupings and pattern-based phrasing
How to build tension and resolution with confidence
A Powerful & Practical Method
Approach 1: Systems
Learn fretboard-friendly frameworks that simplify complex harmony. Sidestepping, pattern repetition, and shape-based targeting—all grounded in the CAGED system.
Example 1-11
Approach 2: Concepts
Explore the deeper harmonic tools behind outside playing—dominant pentatonic, chromatic resolution, melodic minor, hexatonic, and half–whole diminished scales.
Example 2-33
Approach 3: Application
Work through dozens of musical examples and guided exercises that show you how to use each concept in real improvisational settings.
Example 4-22
Master the art of
STEPPING OUTSIDE
Music thrives on tension and resolution, and sidestepping is one of the most effective ways to create it. Stepping Outside gives you the tools to craft fresh, surprising lines that blur the boundaries between inside and outside playing.
This book is your complete system for mastering outside playing on guitar. From simple semitone shifts to advanced sidestepping through chord changes, you'll unlock the secrets behind modern rock, jazz, fusion, and blues soloing. Build confidence in visualization, develop phrasing that’s both logical and daring, and transform your improvising with a method that bridges theory, exercises, and real-world musical examples.
YOU'LL LEARN HOW TO...
✔ Transform basic pentatonic shapes into advanced outside lines
✔ Master sidestepping concepts over static vamps and chord changes
✔ Use rhythmic groupings and phrasing to create modern sounds
✔ Develop professional-level control over tension and release
With tons of musical examples, exercises in all five CAGED positions, and clear strategies for applying these ideas over real backing tracks, this is your roadmap to truly creative, modern improvisation.
THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES...
✔ Advanced sidestepping concepts with full explanations
✔ Visualization drills across the fretboard
✔ Application over rock, contemporary, & fusion contexts
✔ Access to exclusive Video, Audio, & Guitar Pro Files
Ben Kerrigan
Ben Kerrigan is one of the UK’s most exciting emerging guitar voices, known for blending deep theoretical knowledge with fiercely musical phrasing. A dedicated improviser and educator, Ben studied with fusion legend Frank Gambale and has spent decades transcribing and internalising the language of Scott Henderson, Guthrie Govan, Michael Brecker, Allan Holdsworth, and other modern masters.
His teaching approach focuses on distilling advanced harmonic concepts into simple, pattern-based systems that guitarists can actually use in real time. Stepping Outside is his latest project rooted in years of exploration—designed to give players a fresh, intuitive path into outside soloing, tension and release, and improvisational freedom.
Course Overview
Chapter 1: Minor Pentatonic Sidestepping
Learn how to step outside using the simplest possible system: sidestepping pentatonic shapes up or down a fret. This chapter shows how to create tension and resolution using A minor and Bb minor pentatonic, develop phrasing with rhythmic groupings, and visualise sidestepping through the CAGED system. You’ll also learn how to apply sidestepping to B and E minor pentatonics for more varied melodic colour.
Chapter 2: Sidestepping in the Blues
Apply sidestepping to dominant 7th harmony using Mixolydian, dominant pentatonic, and Bb9 arpeggios. This chapter explores inside/outside phrasing using G#, C#, and F# minor pentatonics over a Bb7 vamp, blending blues vocabulary with chromaticism. Learn to create authentic blues phrasing using both major and minor 3rds, swing rhythms, and multiple “inside” options like Bb Hexatonic and Bb7 pentatonic.
Chapter 3: Sidestepping Through Chord Changes
Take sidestepping beyond static harmony and use it to navigate non-diatonic progressions like Dm7–Fm7. You’ll learn how to chromatically connect unrelated chords using sequential sidesteps, mix inside and outside pentatonics, and build lines that shift tonal centers with clarity. The chapter also covers whole-tone sidestepping, pattern sequencing, and tension-building across modulating vamps.
Chapter 4: Hexatonic, Melodic Minor, and Half–Whole Tone Language
Move beyond pentatonics with C major hexatonic, F# hexatonic, and F melodic minor to navigate harmonically rich funk and gospel changes. You’ll learn how to layer outside sounds within a single phrase, resolve tension mid-line, and superimpose advanced scales like half–whole diminished—all while staying grounded in fretboard-friendly patterns.
Chapter 5: Visualisation Systems & Integrated Practice
Put it all together with structured systems to visualise, drill, and internalise sidestepping across the neck. You’ll master horizontal motion between CAGED positions, practice sidestepping sequences using rhythmic motifs, and combine multiple outside sounds into cohesive, expressive lines. Includes guided strategies for developing fluency and creative control in any context.
