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5 Free Udemy Guitar Courses That Aren’t for Beginners

June 4, 2018April 21, 2025

Let’s face it, most free guitar courses are aimed at absolute beginners or those in their first year of playing. […]

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Leigh’s Left-hand Legato Workout

May 31, 2018April 21, 2025

Legato is a great skill for guitar players to incorporate into their arsenal and comes in many forms; the word […]

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Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Easily Jazz Up Your Blues Soloing

May 11, 2018April 21, 2025

It’s been a while since we’ve looked at blues soloing, so I thought I’d add to the Blues Soloing Tricks […]

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The Most Versatile Yet Underused Picking Technique

May 7, 2018April 21, 2025

What do Steve Morse, bluegrass and 10-year-old Japanese guitar prodigy Li-Sa-X have in common? The answer is that they’ve all […]

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How Not to Get Lost When Improvising Over Little Wing

April 28, 2018April 21, 2025

A common problem among guitarists is getting lost while improvising. There are many reasons for this, the most notorious one […]

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10 Game-Changing Soloing Tips for Guitarists

April 19, 2018April 21, 2025

Sometimes all it takes is a suggestion or a new perspective to jump-start your improvisation skills or give your solos […]

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Two-Note-Per-String Major Scales and Modes

April 10, 2018April 21, 2025

Here’s an interesting concept for you to try out. I remember playing around with it unintentionally when I first began […]

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What Really Took My Playing to the Next Level

April 3, 2018April 21, 2025

You hear this phrase a lot in guitar-related media, learning material and sales-type rhetoric – it’s the idea, or the […]

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How to Learn the Harmonized Major Scale (Part 2)

March 24, 2018April 21, 2025

In Part 1 we looked at the basic theory behind the harmonized major scale and how to learn four sets […]

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How to Learn the Harmonized Major Scale (Part 1)

March 23, 2018April 21, 2025

A great way to learn chords and chord progressions is to learn them in context, whether it be a song […]

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