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Repeating Lick #3
PDF: Repeating Licks Backing Tracks: Slow Blues Rock
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How To Play 12 Bar Blues
The vast majority of contemporary blues music is based on what is termed a 12-bar format. That is, the main body of a song follows a set pattern of chords over 12 bars of music that’s repeated over and over. Some songs may have several different patterns to give them a bit of variety, but the guts of…
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Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne
To kick off the song the rhythm section helps build up to one of the song’s signature riffs. When I play this riff I use mostly downstrokes when picking, except for the part at the end starting with the note on the 5th fret on the low E string. I use alternate picking for these…
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Yesterday by The Beatles
Click here for the full song study. Although credited to “Lennon–McCartney”, the song was written solely by Paul McCartney. It remains popular today with more than 2,000 cover versions and is one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music. On this page, you can download the full guitar tab for the…
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Norwegian Wood by The Beatles
Guitar 1 How To Play It Alright, this is the first of three guitar parts that we’ll be looking at, from Norwegian wood. It’s really only three different parts. One of those parts is a Sitar, adapted for the guitar. We have the main riff, and then we have the bridge, and the main riff…
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Tightrope by Stevie Ray Vaughan
Here’s a great SRV riff. It’s a challenge to play it up to speed at first, so I’ve included an audio sample of it somewhat slower than the recorded version. You may need to start off even slower. There’s nothing wrong with that, just take your time. As I said, it’s pretty hard. The main…
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If You Don’t Want Me by Mississippi John Hurt
Here’s a great blues tune to learn!
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E6
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Strummer’s Corner: The Weight by The Band
The Weight Chords And Lyrics Text File [Verse 1] A C#m D A I pulled in to Nazareth, I was feeling about half past dead. A C#m D A I just need some place where I can lay my head. A C#m D A “Hey, Mister, can you tell me where a man might find a…
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How To Read Guitar Tab
Traditional music notation is better suited to show what happens on a piano, not a guitar. The guitar’s fretboard is drastically different than a piano’s keyboard and requires a different sort of notation called tablature (or tab for short). Unlike traditional music notation, tablature doesn’t take years to master, it only takes minutes. Tablature gives us a visual representation…