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Chuck Berry Guitar Licks: Bending & Muting Techniques (Part 2)
You’re not a guitar player if you don’t know something about Chuck Berry. That’s just a fact. And one of the biggest things Chuck brought…
The Blues Scale on Guitar: Adding the Blue Note to Your Pentatonic
If you already know the pentatonic minor scale, the blues scale is one note away. That one note — the chromatic passing tone between the…
Guitar Muting Techniques for Total Control
If there’s one thing that separates a sloppy guitar player from a clean one, it’s muting. Learning to control which strings ring and which stay…
The Most Popular Strumming Pattern In The World
This might be the most widely-used strumming pattern in popular music — and a must-know from any collection of strumming patterns. Once you learn it,…
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…