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Guitar Tricks News July 13 | 2012
1 Blues: Learn the Essentials!

4 Essential Blues Lessons For Blues Beginners to Intermediate Players

The First Law of the Blues!

There's no better way to start learning the blues than by learning the first law of the blues, the 12 bar form! This tutorial will give you an understanding of the 12 Bar Blues Form is and teach you how to play a quick example of it.

Play the Blues in Any Key!

Get ready to make use of that whole guitar neck for this one! In this tutorial, you'll learn how a classic blues riff can be played in any key you want!

What's the Blues Shuffle?

The blues shuffle is an essential part of rhythm blues playing that's used by greats like Stevie Ray Vaughan and B.B. King! This tutorial will get you familiar with it.

You Take the Lead!

Want to play in the styles of B.B. King, Robben Ford and the Allman Brothers? Great! Check out this tutorial on Major and Minor Lead in blues playing!

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2 The Better Way To Learn Scales


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3 Do You Know The Three Types of Blues Vibrato?



For this week's free lesson, we are going to play a blues lick using vibrato and look at it in three different ways. We will play it using an Eric Clapton style vibrato, a BB King style vibrato, as well as a slow and wide vibrato technique.

Try This Lesson Here

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4 Two-Hand Tap Like Eddie Van Halen!

Using tap-bend and bend-tap, Neal shares some very cool Eddie-inspired licks up and down the neck. These concepts are fairly simple and will get you playing fast hammer-on licks ala Eddie, lickity split!

Tip of the Week: how to shift your pick from fingers to tapping position

Watch This Episode Here

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5 The 5 Most Famous Guitars Ever!
Frankenstrat


From a utilitarian view, it's a collection of wood, metal and electronics that when strummed and plucked produces a sound pleasant to the ear. But to guitarists the world over, the guitar is far more than that. It is the object of our collective affections. The sleek smoothness of the wood grain and that tight tensile touch of fingertip to metal string can send shivers down the spine. .

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