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5 Iconic Power Chord Intro Riffs for Guitar
Power chords are one of the first things you learn when you pick up a guitar, but there’s a reason they’re so fundamental. They’re simple…
How to Improve Your Strumming: Practice Tips That Actually Work
You can play all the right chords and still sound like a beginner. Nine times out of ten, strumming is the reason. It’s the thing…
Learn To Play Guitar FREE COURSE (2/4)
In this lesson, I’m going to cover learn to play guitar — a topic that comes up a lot and is well worth spending some…
Born Under a Bad Sign: Learn the Classic Blues Riff on Guitar
That opening riff from Born Under a Bad Sign is one of those riffs that grabs you by the collar. Albert King wrote it, Cream…
The Thrill is Gone – Chords & Progression
BB King recorded The Thrill is Gone in 1969, and it’s been a blues standard ever since. It was the song that crossed blues over…