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Country Guitar String Stretch That Sounds Like Steel
There’s a move in country guitar that mimics the sound of a steel guitar — a string stretch that creates this beautiful chordal effect when…
Best Way to Use Guitar Practice Time
How should you spend your guitar practice time? That depends on where you want to go — but one thing is universal: don’t practice stuff…
Brown Eyed Girl Chords For Guitar
“Brown Eyed Girl” is one of those songs every guitar player should have in their back pocket. Van Morrison’s 1967 classic has that instantly recognizable…
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…
Minor Pentatonic Scale: The Foundation of Every Blues Solo
If you want to sound like you know what you’re doing when you solo, you need to know this scale. It’s the foundation of blues…