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  • “Testify” by Rage Against The Machine

    Difficulty: Intermediate Their song “Testify” is in drop D tuning. In drop D tuning the low E string is tuned down one whole step to D. This enables the guitarist to play power chords with a single finger. 

  • Reckless Abandon by Blink 182

    Difficulty: Easy Tempo: 250 bpm Taken From “Take Off Your Pants and Jacket” Since Blink-182 broke up in early 2005, Travis and Mark started up a band called Plus 44, and Tom Delonge started up a band called Angels and Airwaves. Download the full guitar tab today!

  • The Most Commonly Used Lead Pattern

    Here is the most popular pattern in guitar soloing. It’s a combination of the G, E, and D shape minor scale patterns. Here’s the pattern as it appears in the key of A minor. You can play the notes from this pattern in songs in the key of A minor and in most cases you…

  • C Major Scale

  • Alternate Picking

    Fig. 1: Simple Alternate Picking Exercise Fig. 2: Alternate Picking Variation Alternate picking is a guitar playing technique, used only by pick users, that employs strictly alternating downward and upward picking strokes in a continuous run, and is the most common method of plectrum playing. If this technique is performed on a single note at…

  • Key Signature

    Every song has a key signature. A key signature tells us what originating tone a song is to be performed in. It can either be major or minor.

  • “Greensleeves” by Jeff Beck

  • “Miserlou” by Dick Dale

      Difficulty: Intermediate Quentin Tarantino used this classic surf tune in the soundtrack for his movie masterpiece “Pulp Fiction”. It’s performed with tremelo picking which is represented in the tab with 3 diagonal slashes above the note. To do this you’ll simply alternate pick (up, down, up, down strokes) each note as fast as you can. Also, be sure…

  • “You Know You’re Right” by Nirvana

    Difficulty: Intermediate

  • F#m (F sharp minor chord)

    The chord diagram below shows an F#m guitar chord. It can also be called Gbm (G flat minor). This form is using an Em shape barre chord (root on the 2nd fret of the low E string).