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Easy Guitar Chords For Beginners | Learn Guitar Chords Charts
If you're just getting started with the guitar, it can be overwhelming to learn all of the chords available. That's why this guide exists! We'll go over six different chords that are easy for beginners and will help you get started on your journey towards playing music. Here's a list...

How to Setup Your Guitar for the First time?
Your guitar is a very intricate instrument. There are a lot of variables that go into making it sound and feel good. These variables include the size of the body, neck profile, type of wood used for the body and neck, nut width and shape, string gauge etc. It can...

Bend it like David Gilmour
s David Gilmour’s latest solo album hits the streets, we break down the Pink Floyd guitarist’s four- and five-fret string bending technique. You can expect to snap an occasional string playing these huge bends Notable for David Gilmour’s slick outro solo, Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) is one...

Andy James shred guitar lesson
Lightning licks from the speed maestro Andy rounds off his lessons by sharing more of the secrets that have earned him a reputation as one of the world's most formidable shredders. In his final lesson Andy kicks things off by playing a one-bar rock lick. It's a simple line, even...

11 Marshall masters: essential licks from Hendrix to Vai
Introduction No survey of the Marshall stack’s five-decade reign would be complete without honouring the players who have made them howl like fallen angels. Here, we present 11 essential licks in the style of 11 masters of the big black box. The licks we’ve presented here trace the development of...

Conquering The Fretboard - Part 1
This lesson shows how the guitar tuning dictates shapes we get on the guitar, and shows how we arrive at the various octave shapes, which in turn break a 12-fret block of the guitar into 5 regions. Getting to know where these regions exist is a good way to reduce...

Diatonic Exercise No. 3 With George Salas
Hey guys, this exercise involves 9ths up and down the fretboard using the lower strings. I hope you enjoy and please rate and comment! Tips: Memorize your three shapes first. Trwy and incorporate these into your on compositions! The only different shapes (in a diatonic major key) will be your...

Modes For Rock And Metal Guitar Riffs Lessons
Modes are one of the most important harmonic and melodic ideas used by guitar players and we need to study them so we have a solid handle on how we can use them to the best of our ability. In certain styles of music, (such as rock and metal), modes...

2 String Sweeps With Descending Shred Lick
I was mucking around with some 2 string arpeggios and just messing with your standard 1, 3, 5 triad over 3 octaves and decided to add a descending run. I put a few different arpeggios together based on a chord progression in E minor with a cheeky moment or harmonic...
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Lick Wars - Episode 1 - The 'Bend Face Rocker' Lick [Lessons]
This is a great lick to learn! It has a pure '70s rock ballad vibe in it. Expression is the key here. Pay attention to vibratos, bends and rhythm as well. Also be careful with the ''pre-bends'' here. In a pre-bend, you bend the string before you pick it. If...

Diatonic Exercise No. 2 With George Salas
Hey guys, here's a short lesson on single string pedal point shapes. It is all in C major but as usual, I urge you to apply this to every key and string. A pedal point is a note that is either sustained (usually heard in organ pieces and usually a...

From Scales To Licks
Most of the guitar books, Internet guitar lessons and guitar teachers show the fret-board's scale patterns in tight fingerboard position layouts (approx. 4-5 frets horizontally). And, while some guitar licks are played from within those closely grouped scale patterns, most are not. If a practicing guitarist were to begin spending...