Guitar Picking Patterns for Strumming
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Guitar Scales for Beginners: Your First Scale (E Minor Pentatonic)
If you want to play riffs, solos, or anything beyond strumming chords, you need to learn a scale. And there’s one scale that sits at…
BB King Guitar Licks: The Third String Bend (Part 2)
What good guitar player couldn’t be inspired by BB King’s playing? And if you’re not a good guitar player yet, learning some of BB’s riffs…
Chromatic Passing Notes: Add Color to Your Blues Guitar Solos
Your pentatonic scale has five notes. The fretboard has twelve notes per octave. What about those other seven notes? Most guitar players treat them like…
How to Be a Better Lead Guitar Player
Every guitar player who learns their scales eventually hits the same wall: “I know the patterns, but my solos still don’t sound like music.” If…
Simple Man Chords
The Simple Man chords are C, G, and Am — three open chords that carry the entire Lynyrd Skynyrd classic. You can strum it, fingerpick…