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How to Unlock the Fretboard Using Shapes
Cindy Moorhead If you’re looking for ways to increase your understanding of the fretboard, a good place to start is by looking at the shapes your fingers create as you play scales and chords. In this video, Sean Daniel explores the fretboard using a riff that uses one scale and two chords. The riff covers quite…
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Are These the Top 10 Hardest Rock Songs to Play on Guitar?
Slash performs with Guns N’ Roses at the 2016 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Kevin Winter/Getty Images WatchMojo.com posts top-10 “list” videos about just about everything. They’ve done lists about spaceships, explosions, deaths you didn’t see coming, theme parks, good robots, evil robots, robots that die and make you sad, skyscrapers, zombies, sexy aliens…
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Watch Tedeschi Trucks Band, Taj Mahal and Jerry Douglas Perform “Leaving Trunk” Backstage at the Beacon Theatre
A few years ago, the folks in Tedeschi Trucks Band gave their fans a unique look at a backstage rehearsal following a pair of shows at New York City’s Beacon Theatre. On this particular evening, Tedeschi Trucks Band—which includes Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi—once again put out the welcome mat, inviting Jerry Douglas, Taj Mahal…
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Watch Paul Riario Demo Wired Guitarist’s String Drop Strings
In this fresh clip, GW Tech Editor Paul Riario discusses String Drop—a new set of strings from Wired Guitarist. String Drop strings are made to ensure progressive tension, meaning that the low strings are tight while the higher strings are more fluid, making bends much easier. The strings use an exclusive blend of alloys, giving…
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Prince’s Teal Blue Cloud Guitar Auctioned For $700K
Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A California auction house says a guitar that Prince used in the late 1980s and into the 1990s has been sold for $700,000. That’s the highest amount paid for one of the late rock star’s guitars. Julien’s Live auction house, based in Los Angeles, anticipated the teal blue Cloud guitar…
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Four Actionable Practice Methods to Help You Improve Every Day
FROM THE AUTHOR: If you disagree, keep it kosher. We’re just talking guitars. If you’re like me, you would love to spend more time playing guitar. Or at least you’d like to figure out how to be more productive with the time you already spend. Because even if you get to play sporadically, it doesn’t…
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Vixen Guitarist Brittany Denaro Talks Songwriting, Gear and New Music
After being discovered performing in an all-female Guns ‘N Roses tribute band, guitarist Brittany Denaro—or Britt Lightning—was invited to join the ranks of hard rockers Vixen. Denaro’s impressive musical resume also includes performing alongside such artists as Alejandro Sanz, Rachel Platten and Jason Derulo as well as on television shows like Good Morning America and…
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How to Eliminate Guitar Buzz
Noise seems to be every guitar player’s nightmare. It can be buzz, hum, hiss, air-traffic control… (This Is Spinal Tap, anyone?) I’ll start off by saying that guitar rigs are a noisy environment, to begin with. Gain has a lot to do with noise, but if things are clean before it hits the gain stage,…
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Blue Horizons: The Lyric Form
Chops: Intermediate Theory: Beginner Lesson Overview: • Let blues vocalists inspire your phrasing. • Get more mileage from your licks by varying their rhythmic patterns. • Emulate the call-and-response style of such blues masters as B.B. King, Freddie King, and Magic Sam. Click here to download a printable PDF of this lesson’s notation. “Phrasing” is…
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The Truth About Power Chords
Power chords are not really chords. No, really. Hear me out. Chords are 3 notes or more, whereas power chords only have 2 different notes. A correct name would be “power intervals” because they only contain two different notes. Usually, power chords are composed of the root, a perfect 5th interval, and the root note doubled at a higher pitch…