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Gentle Giant in January 1972.

Techniques of Prog-Rockers Gentle Giant, Yes, Genesis and King Crimson

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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert King Play "Pride and Joy" and "Born Under a Bad Sign" in 1983

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Applying Sweep Picking to Chord Progressions

Shaping Up: Dominant Double Stops for Guitar

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How to Create Professional-Sounding Tracks at Home

Tapping in 16th-Note Triplets with Guthrie Govan

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Using the Harmonic Minor Scale and Phrygian-Dominant Mode to Create Neoclassical Metal-Style Solos

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How to Use Quick Shifts and Long Slides to Add Interesting Movement to Licks

The Complete Guitarist: How to Get Through a Nightmare Show

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Combining Sweep Picking and Fretboard Tapping to Forge Long, Flowing Melodic Phrases

Rhythmic Soloing Exercise for the Improvising Guitarist

Two-Note-Per-String Scale Sequences and Indian-Style Phrasing

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Top 10 Comebacks When a Bar Owner Asks You to Play for Free

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Meet the Byzantine/Hijazkiar/Double Harmonic Major Scale

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Finger Twisters—Combining Major and Minor Scales and Arpeggios

A Guide to Rolling Shred Patterns

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Using String Skipping to Create Angular, Sweep-Type Sounds

Three Steps to Avoiding Practice Fatigue

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Watch Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck Perform "Layla" in 1983

10 Tips to Boost Your Practice Session

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Secrets of Shred with Sammy Boller: Combining Pentatonics with Tapping

Jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery performs onstage in circa 1962.

Three Essential Jazz Guitar Chord Soloing Lines

Yngwie Malmsteen's Rotational Picking Mechanic

Five Steps to Walking Basslines on Guitar

Improve Your Guitar Playing by Giving Your Notes Room to Breathe

Employing Chromatic Passing Tones to Connect Phrases and Fretboard Positions

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A Six-Note, Three-Octave, Major-Scale Exercise to Help You Know Your Way Around the Fretboard

Four Great Amps for Reggae Guitar

Guitar Anatomy: Four Fundamental Movements Every Guitarist Should Know

Three Must-Know Jazzy Pentatonic Patterns

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Different Types of Microphones and How to Use Them in the Studio

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How to Balance Your Guitar’s Vibrato

When Sweep Picking Gets Old, Try This

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The Guitalele as an Extra Guitar Voice

Guitar 101: Heavy Metal Hybrid Picking

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Little Walter's Exciting Up-Tempo Jump-Blues Soloing Style

An Introduction to Symmetrical Scales for Guitar

Spread Triads: Making the Guitar Sound Beautiful

An Introduction to the Tritone Scale

Guitarists' Seven Most Common Mistakes in the Recording Studio

Clever Ways to Conjure Haunting, Mysterious Melodies

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A Guide to Sweep Arpeggios with Chromatic Runs

Jamming Arpeggios with the C Major Triad

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Acoustic Nation

The Ukulele is Not the Enemy of Your Guitar

Stealing Guitar Solo Ideas from Miles Davis

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Cracking the Code with Troy Grady: Eric Johnson's Pickslanting Pentatonics

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What In the World: Oud-Style String-Skipping Pedal Tones

Damian Fanelli plays his Palir Titan.

Arranging and Production Tips to Really Make Your Guitar Stand Out

Five Must-Know Jazz Guitar Turnarounds

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Turn Your Bathroom Into an Echo Chamber in Five Easy Steps

Secrets of Shred with Sammy Boller: Speed Pentatonic Scales

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