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…
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Country Chord Progression Guitar — The Walk-Down
Learn the country chord progression that shows up in hit song after hit song. Colin breaks down the I-IV-V progression with the walk-down bass technique.
Cool Country Guitar Riff: Inverted Thirds with Hybrid Picking
Country guitar has its own sound. A lot of it comes from double-note riffs that move together like a single melody. What you’re about to…
12 Bar Blues Solo — Complete It Step by Step
This is it. Lesson five. We’re finishing this 12-bar blues solo today — and I’ve only got one reminder. Did you put your time in?…
Blues Chord Progression: Killing Floor Guitar Lesson
A major scale in a blues? Yeah, it shouldn’t work. But Howlin’ Wolf proved it does. We’re diving into Part 3 of this series, and…
Up Around The Bend – Intro Riff
That tricky slide riff at the start of Up Around The Bend has puzzled guitarists for years — but it’s actually not that hard once…