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Change the mood and spice up your tunes with parallel major and minor keys

By Jimmy Brown Published

Impart a touch of sadness or melancholy to an otherwise happy and predictable-sounding progression

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Get a private blues lesson from ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons

By Guitar World Staff Published

Billy Gibbons teaches you the blues tunes that inspired him to play guitar

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Play better than ever with these 5 essential guitar warm-up exercises

By Stéphane Wrembel Published

Gypsy jazz guitar master Stéphane Wrembel offers some terrific exercises that will help you develop fret-hand strength

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Learn to supercharge your blues solos by seamlessly switching between major and minor pentatonic scales

By Andy Aledort Published

All of the greatest blues and rock guitarists - such as T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Albert King, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix - routinely incorporated this technique into their solos

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Dweezil Zappa
Take your improvisation to the next level by listening to your own playing and reacting to it

By Dweezil Zappa Published

Dweezil Zappa offers some phenomenal spontaneous soloing strategies

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Steve Howe lesson: Learn how to play Yes's Starship Trooper, Siberian Khatru and Mood for a Day

By Guitar World Staff Published

Steve Howe shows you how to play the key riffs to several Yes classics

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Make your compositions soar using augmented climb progressions

By Jimmy Brown Published

How to inject a sense of drama into your songwriting

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Give your fingers a workout with this monster three-notes-per-string lick

By Glenn Proudfoot Published

If you get your fingers used to the wide intervals in this lick, the creative possibilities are endless

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Dweezil Zappa
Open your mind to new sounds with these symmetrical fretboard patterns

By Dweezil Zappa Published

Dweezil Zappa shares ideas for fresh melodic shapes

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Learn the hallmarks of the hugely influential guitar style of Mountain's Leslie West

By Andy Aledort Published

Take a look at Leslie West's heavy, dense guitar work in this lesson

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