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- Beginner guitar scales: learn the most important patterns
May 27
- How to install a kill switch on your guitar
May 26
- Blues maverick Jonathon Long shows you how to get more mileage from your guitar licks
May 22
- How to play guitar like Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong
May 20
- Alter your musical perspective by learning to solo using the Superlocrian mode
May 15
- Pedal tone riffs: kickstart your playing with these simple riffs
May 13
- How to play fingerstyle blues with alternating bass and melody
May 7
- How to use modulation pedals on bass
- Upgrade your leads by learning to solo over non-diatonic blues chord changes
May 6
- Go from Steve Cropper to Steve Vai with this hot lick six-pack
May 1
- Funk up your blues with these rhythmic solo ideas

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