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February 2019

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February 28
- Four Ways a Song Becomes "Better"
- 15 Ways to Improve Your Mixes
- How to Craft a Long Riff with No Repetition
- The Scale Every Guitarist Needs To Know
- Achieving Absolute Fretboard Mastery, Part 6
February 27
- 60-Second Songwriting: Songwriting Building Blocks — Song Structure
- Wild Stringdom with John Petrucci: Recognizing Repetitive Fretboard Shapes on All String Groups
- Expand Your Melodic Colors with Ninth Arpeggios
February 25
- Using Country-Style “Chicken Pickin’” in Metal
February 22
- New Horizons in Acoustic Guitar: Using Unusual Techniques and Tunings
- Learning Paganini's 16th Caprice in G Minor
February 21
- Applying Second Intervals to Arpeggiated Riff Ideas
- How to Mix Chords with Blues Licks
- How to Solo Like Angus Young, Jimmy Page and Tony Iommi
February 20
- John Petrucci Lesson: Combining Triad Arpeggios to Form Polytonal Chordal Allusions
- Tony Iommi on Overwhelming Odds and the Right Way to Play "Paranoid"
February 19
- How to Fortify Power-Chord Ideas with Single-Note Lines and Diads
- Jazz Guitar Corner: The Importance of the Bird Blues Chord Progression
February 15
- The Dotted 8th Note Delay Trick
- Full Shred with Marty Friedman: Taking Licks You’ve Learned from Others and Making Them Your Own
- Tips on Creating a Guitar Practice Schedule
- Martin Miller's 21st-Century Picking Mechanics
February 14
- 10 Gorgeous "Color Chords" That Can Inspire Your Playing
- How to Play Like Chicago Blues Guitar Legend Magic Sam
- Incorporating Tapping Into Minor Scale Patterns
February 13
- How to Use Open Strings for Blues
- Applying a Triplet Arpeggio Sequence to the Cycle of Fourths
February 12
- Restless Harmony: Meet the Anxious m7b5 Chord
- Be a String Crossing Badass
February 11
- Adding the Ninth to Arpeggio-Based Licks
- Improve Your Fretboard Knowledge with This Arpeggio Exercise
February 8
- Discovering Phrasing Alternatives Via Melodic Sequences
February 7
- Creating Riffs from Arpeggios, and the Intro and Verses to “Priestess”
- Achieving Absolute Fretboard Mastery, Part 5
February 6
- Break the Rules with Open Strings
- A Guide to Basic Jazz-Blues Changes
February 5
- Extending Common Sweep Patterns
- Three Must-Know Jazzy Pentatonic Patterns
- Incorporating Jazz Chords Into Metal
February 4
- Finger Tips: How Guitarists Can Keep Their Digits Warm
- Hitting the Pocket: The Importance of Dynamics and Grooving When Soloing
- Using Three Different Scales to Improvise Over Minor Key ii-V-i’s
- Romancing the Fretboard: Chopin Arranged for Guitar, Part 2
February 1
- Adding the Major Third to Minor Pentatonic and Blues Scale Phrases