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Playing Tips: Joe Satriani on Improving Your Legato Technique

Posted 12/20/2012 at 11:33am | by Guitar World Staff

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In this bite-sized lesson, Joe Satriani provides some useful exercises for improving your legato technique.

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Metal For Life: How to Build Power Chord Variations for Maximum Sonic Effect, Part 2

Posted 12/19/2012 at 12:00pm | by Metal Mike Chlasciak

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In this month’s column, I’d like to show you some simple and effective ways to make your metal rhythm guitar parts sound bigger, heavier and more powerful. These ideas are useful in many different ways, and I think you will find them applicable in live performance as well as when overdubbing and layering tracks.

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Video: How to Play "Silent Night" on Guitar

Posted 12/19/2012 at 7:57am | by Guitar World Staff

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In this video, Guitar World's Jimmy Brown shows you how to play "Silent Night" — just in time for Christmas. Brown goes over several different arrangements, from basic to more involved, and then covers the melody line.

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Chop Shop: More on Hybrid Picking, and a Gypsy Jazz–Tinged Run in E Minor

Posted 12/18/2012 at 12:01pm | by John 5

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In last month’s column, we looked at a neat pattern and lick in the key of B that incorporated the use of hybrid picking (pick-and-fingers technique). To follow up on and expand upon that topic, I’d like to present two further ideas based on the same pattern, and then show you an elegant run inspired by the great gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.

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Video: How to Play "Jingle Bell Rock" on Guitar

Posted 12/17/2012 at 5:44pm | by Damian Fanelli

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In this video, Guitar World's Jimmy Brown shows you how to play "Jingle Bell Rock." Brown goes over several different arrangements of the song, from basic to more involved. Then he covers the melody line. Then you see him play the melody over the chords.

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Jazz Guitar Corner: Using One-String Scales to Break Out of Box Patterns

Posted 12/14/2012 at 8:06am | by Matt Warnock

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One of the most beneficial ways to learn scales on the guitar is to break them down and work them out using the common “box patterns” for each scale. This system is a solid way to organize the neck and get any scale under your fingers when first exploring these melodic devices on the fretboard.

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Metal For Life: How to Use an Open-String Pedal Tone to Build Heavy Single-Note Riffs

Posted 12/13/2012 at 12:22pm | by Metal Mike Chlasciak

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For this lesson, I’ve put together a series of melodic riffs that could be used for a song’s intro, verse, chorus, bridge or solo section, and that utilize an open low E-string pedal tone. A pedal tone is defined as a long held or rearticulated note around which other parts move. As applied to the guitar, a pedal tone usually represents the tonic, or root note, and is played on the lower, often open, strings.

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Exclusive Lesson Video: Dropkick Murphys — "The Boys Are Back"

Posted 12/11/2012 at 2:39pm | by Damian Fanelli

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In the exclusive lesson video below, James Lynch, Tim Brennan and Jeff DaRosa from Dropkick Murphys show you how to play "The Boys Are Back," a track off their new album. The album, Signed and Sealed in Blood, will be released January 8 on the band's own Born & Bred Records label.

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Hole Notes: Examining Paul McCartney’s “Two-Finger” Magic in “Blackbird”

Posted 12/07/2012 at 11:51am | by Dale Turner

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The Beatles’ “Blackbird,” performed entirely by Paul McCartney using his Martin D-28, was released on the 1968 album The Beatles (commonly referred to as the White Album). From a guitar standpoint, the song’s roots and inspiration can be traced back to McCartney’s early experimentation with a well-known piece by J.S. Bach titled “Bourée in E Minor,” which he woodshedded in his youth.

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