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So You've Bought a B-Bender: Get Started with This Handy Country/Blues Lick

By Damian Fanelli

A primer for guitarists who—for some weird reason—have bought a B-bender-equipped guitar and don't really know what to do with it.

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Make Your Blues Solos Awesome Using Dominant Seven Chords

By Andy Aledort

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24 Easy Jazz Chords Every Guitar Player Should Know

By Christopher Scapelliti

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Improvising on a I-IV Chord Vamp

By Andy Aledort

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Enhancing Blues Progressions with 7th and "Jimi Hendrix" Chords

By Kenny Ray

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Four Ways to Practice Drop 2 Chords Through the Cycle of 4ths

By Matt Warnock

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Three Hot Country Guitar Licks for Rockers

By Christopher Scapelliti

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Expanding Major Pentatonic Ideas to Major Hexatonic

By Andy Aledort

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Melodic Tactics for a Minor Jazz-Blues Progression

By Jimmy Brown

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How—and Why—to Use Diminished Licks in Blues Solos

By Christopher Scapelliti

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Introduction to the Lydian Pentatonic Concept

By Matt Warnock

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Allan Holdsworth's 10 Most Useful Scales

By Damian Fanelli

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Using Chord Positions As a Springboard for Soloing

By Andy Aledort

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Introduction to Spread Triads for Guitar, Part 1

By Matt Warnock

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How to Play Stevie Ray Vaughan's Multi-String "Texas Flood" Bends

By Damian Fanelli

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Lonnie Mack and the Birth of Blues-Rock Guitar

By Keith Wyatt

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Break Open ii-V’s with This Nine-Note Scale

By Matt Warnock

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The Fundamental Techniques You Need for a Texas Shuffle Rhythm

By Guitar World Staff

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Three Essential Blues Scales Every Guitarist Should Know

By Christopher Scapelliti

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How to Expand Your Jazz Chops with Rhythmic Displacement

By Matt Warnock