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Learn a few of the rhythm guitar techniques Jimi would most often employ to spice up his rhythm parts and make them melodic.

Hybrid picking can be smartly employed as a shredder’s “secret weapon.”

Learn some cool variations of this progression that feature added chord changes and spicier harmony and voice-leading.

Chord forms can provide useful templates of fretboard shapes for improvising melodic lines.

Jimmy was often quoted as saying his true passion was to create a combination of “light and shade.”

Get a lesson in intricate tapping from Guthrie Govan.

Learn two patented, incredibly useful Chet Atkins guitar techniques.

Learn some cool approaches to improvising over an Emaj7-Bm7 chord progression.

If you develop a taste for moving "outside" the tonal center, it can provide a very cool expansion of your musical vocabulary.

Even the best musicians make mistakes, but it's how you react and move forward from those setbacks that truly measure your progress.