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Blues Soloing

A Cool Blues Riff Based on the Pentatonic Scale

This blues riff guitar lesson covers one of those licks that sounds way harder than it actually is. It comes straight out of the pentatonic…

Guitar Riffs

SRV Style Closing Riff in E: The One Lick You Need

If there’s one riff every blues guitar player should own, it’s this one. It’s a closing riff — the kind of phrase you use to…

Bass Guitar Lessons

Bass Octaves – Super Helpful for Beginners!

This bass guitar lesson teaches you what an octave is and how to incorporate octaves into a bass chord progression. Understanding octaves is one of…

Power Chords

Inverted Fourths on Guitar: The Secret Behind Smoke on the Water

Ever wonder why the Smoke on the Water riff sounds so distinctive? It’s not a standard power chord. It uses something called an inverted fourth…

Practice Tips

How to Remember Guitar Chords to a Song

You learned the chords to a song yesterday and today they’ve vanished from your brain. Sound familiar? Colin has dealt with this exact problem —…

Guitar Songs

Blue on Black – Guitar Solo Lesson (Flatted 7th)

This lesson explains the solo for Blue on Black by Kenny Wayne Shepherd and how to figure out which key to solo in. If you…

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