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Contest: Take Hendrix Lick Pack Challenge and Win 'Winterland' Box Set, 'Hendrix In The West' and Feature on GuitarWorld.com

Posted 03/27/2012 at 1:25pm | by Guitar World Staff

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Show us your chops and win a Jimi Hendrix Winterland 4 CD box set and the Hendrix In The West CD and be featured on the homepage of GuitarWorld.com, all courtesy of the Experience Hendrix Tour and Guitar World!

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Guitar World Lick of the Day App Introduces Jimi Hendrix Lick Packs

Posted 03/23/2012 at 8:13am | by Guitar World Staff

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Guitar World and Agile Partners announce three Jimi Hendrix Lick Packs are now available in Guitar World Lick of the Day, the popular app for learning guitar on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

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Guitar World Lick of the Day App Introduces The Beatles Lick Packs

Posted 03/06/2012 at 7:41am | by Guitar World Staff

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Guitar World and Agile Partners today announced a new release of Guitar World Lick of the Day that introduces The Beatles Lick Packs to the popular app for learning guitar on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Arriving just in time to celebrate more than one million downloads of Lick of the Day, the new version also introduces Lick Singles so users can select individual licks from the app's extensive catalog of licks.

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Lamb of God Create New “Vox of God” iPhone App

Posted 02/08/2012 at 5:51pm | by Damian Fanelli

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Lamb of God -- who happen to be on the cover of the March 2012 issue of GW -- have issued a new iPhone app called the "Vox of God." It's a voice-modulating iOS app developed for Lamb of God in support of their new album, Resolution, and 2012 tour.

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Lick of the Day: Fluid D Dorian Legato Run by Gus G

Posted 01/06/2012 at 2:30pm | by Guitar World Staff

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Today's lick is a fast, fluid-sounding legato run based on the D Dorian mode (D E F G A B C), courtesy of Gus G. I rely on consecutive hammer-ons and pull-offs to articulate many of the notes and use finger slides to seamlessly shifts positions as I ascend the fretboard. Using finger slides allows me to continue up a single string without having to interrupt my smooth, legato phrasing with an unwanted pick attack.

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Lick of the Day: Hybrid Picking by Brooks Betts of May Day Parade

Posted 12/30/2011 at 11:51am | by Guitar World Staff

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Here are Brooks Betts' tips for today's Lick of the Day:

Today's lick is the verse riff from the song "When You See My Friends," off the self-titled album by my band, May Day Parade. It's a laid-back chord melody figure that incorporates the use of hybrid picking (pick and fingers) and hammer-on and pull-off techniques. My guitar is in drop-D tuning, tuned down one half step (low to high, C♯ G♯ C♯ F♯ A♯ D♯).

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Lick of the Day: Faux Octavia Lick by Paul Riario, Sponsored by Guitar ToolKit 2.0

Posted 12/24/2011 at 10:17am | by Paul Riario

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The Octavia was a stomp box that generated a pitch one octave higher than the actual note. It had a distinct sound and was popularized by Jimi Hendrix in the solo of the song "Purple Haze."

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Lick of the Day: Across-the-Neck Tap

Posted 12/16/2011 at 5:09pm | by Guitar World Staff

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Today's free Lick of the Day is an across-the-neck tapping lick courtesy of Guitar World's own Matt Scharfglass. We'll let Matt take it away for the explanation:

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Lick of the Day: The Jazzy Kraken

Posted 12/09/2011 at 3:04pm | by Guitar World Staff

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Today's free Lick of the Day comes courtesy of Soulfly guitarist Mark Rizzo, who shares a lick that is adapted from the ending of the track "Release the Kraken," from his solo album, Legionnaire. It's a jazzy phrase that implies a Bm7 chord with some precise picking, based on the B blues scale (B D E F F♯ A B), and also shifts chromatically up to Cm7.

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Lick of the Day: Pentatonic-Chromatic Cascade

Posted 11/18/2011 at 5:58pm | by Guitar World Staff

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Today's free Lick of the Day comes courtesy of Firewind/Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Gus G, who is here to show you a slick metal lick featuring a cascading chromatic decent. We'll let Gus take it away for the explanation:

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