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Slide Guitar Tuning & Setup: Action, Strings & Choosing Your Slide
Before you start playing slide guitar, you need your guitar set up properly. The wrong setup will fight you at every turn – strings buzzing…
The 1 4 5 Chord Progression: Play Guitar in Any Key
Just four chords power thousands of songs across every genre—pop, rock, blues, country, and beyond. But the real magic isn’t in memorizing them. It’s understanding…
How to Use Triads in Guitar Solos
If your solos feel like they’re missing something — like they sound fine but don’t have that full, ringing quality you hear in classic recordings…
Three Finger Blues Guitar Lesson (Adding the Minor 7th)
You’ve mastered the one finger blues and the two finger blues shuffle. Now it’s time to wake up that pinky and add one more layer…
Electric Guitar Fingerstyle Techniques
When you’re learning electric guitar, somebody’s eventually going to ask you: are you a pick player or a fingerstyle player? Here’s what I’ve learned over…