Pipeline Guitar Riff: The Classic Surf Intro
You’ve heard it. That iconic surf riff that instantly takes you back to sun-soaked beaches and perfect waves. The Pipeline intro is one of those…
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Fortunate Son Guitar Riff: Double Stop Intro Technique
John Fogerty gave us one of rock’s most recognizable intros with Fortunate Son. This riff uses double stops—two notes played together—in a way that sounds…
Finger Tapping Guitar: Finger Tapping For Dummies
Finger tapping. A technique of playing the guitar all its own. Since the Eddie Van Halen era, it’s really grown into one of those guitar…
Danelectro Guitar Review
The Danelectro sits in a weird spot in the guitar world. It’s not fancy, not expensive, and it looks like nothing else out there. But…
Learn To Play Guitar FREE COURSE (2/4)
In this lesson, I’m going to cover learn to play guitar — a topic that comes up a lot and is well worth spending some…
Purple Haze Chords for Guitar
Purple Haze uses an E-G-A progression, but with Jimi Hendrix’s signature chord voicings that give it that unmistakable sound. The key chord is the E7#9…