Advanced Guitar Lessons
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Building Speed - Hybrid Picking Blues To Country
Many years of playing styles from Bluegrass to Heavy Metal have shaped this style of guitar. I utilize this stuff everyday on sessions, and rip this stuff up on live gigs. It will enable you to fly by the seat of your pants in any genre, Blues, Country, Rock etc... but with a flair and flow, that many flat pickers will marvel at. The most important aspect of this tutorial, is learning to use you...
More Pentatonic And Blues Shredding
End of Song Lead
Advanced Hybrid Picking
Tremolo Tutorial
Tips & Tricks

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Pulling, And Prebending Strings
This would be a good ending for a solo in the key of G, or it would be a good intro if you're doing a turn around. There are a lot of classic country songs that have a 1, 5, 1 turn around for an intro. This can also be used in today's country, but probably not as an intro. The bends in this are prebent, this means the string is actually bent before you play it. After playing the string, then yo...
Robben Ford Style Jazz Lick
This one can be a little confusing at first but fits in beautifully with the first 4 bars of a 12 bar. The riff ends neatly on the D for the 5 bar of the 12 bar. I haven�t added hammer-ons or pull-offs to the tab because depending on what context you play you could play every note with a pick or use more of a legato style. This could be used in a straight or swing jazz/blues.
Metal Mosquito Lick
Write Your Own Ending
I use this lick quite a bit in some of the old country stuff I play, and I'm still finding new ways to do it. This is one variation of something I picked up from Roy Nichols, Merle Haggard's guitar player. I use my index finger to do the slide, and then on to the bends. For the first one you bend the string after you hit the note, the second one is prebent. This means you play the note, after you ...
A Mixed Bag of Tricks
This is a pretty cool set of riffs, this one has a little bit of everything in it. It starts with a slide in the 9th fret on the third (g) string, and goes into a bend in the 12th fret on the second (b) string, don't forget to pull off to the 10th fret on the second string, then there's a double stop bend and release on the second string in the 8th fret. You hit the first (e) string, and the secon...
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