May 2016

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How to Get a Blazing Country Guitar Sound

By Paul Riario published

A tasty country guitar sound is unique, unmistakable and elusive to many players. Until now!

Musical Tips & Advice
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Infusing Major Pentatonic Patterns with Chromatic Passing Tones

By Andy Aledort published

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

Lessons
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Creating Riffs from Arpeggios, and the Intro and Verses to “Priestess”

By Mark Holcomb published

Walk the line between playing only single notes while also outlining “wide” chord voicings via the use of arpeggios.

Techniques
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Using a Pedal Tone to Forge Fast, Keyboard-like Phrases

By Joel Hoekstra published

How to use a signature element in baroque classical music to great effect in your own playing.

Lessons
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Modifying a Picking Pattern to Accentuate a Melody

By Tommy Emmanuel published

Musical Tips & Advice
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Celebrating 50 Years of Jorma Kaukonen’s Fingerpicking Prowess

By Dale Turner published

This column honors Jorma Kaukonen’s half century of contributions to acoustic music.

Guitarists
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The Eagles' 20 Greatest Songs

By Andy Aledort, Richard Bienstock, Jimmy Brown, Alan Di Perna published

Guitar World rounds up the top 20 Eagles tracks and breaks them down in an effort to provide some insight into what made this legendary guitar ensemble soar to great heights.

Music Releases
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Review: Peavey 6505 MH Guitar Amp

By Chris Gill published

In the not too distant past, there was a rather significant rift between big and small amps.

Guitar Amps
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“Hopak,” the Uptempo “Fight Club” Song of the Ukrainian Kozaky

By Jimmy Brown published

Song Lessons
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Review: D’Angelico Guitars EX-DC Deluxe

By Chris Gill published

The D’Angelico EX-DC impressed us so much when we reviewed it two and a half years ago that it was difficult to think of much that could be done to improve it.

Electric Guitars
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