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Guitar Tricks News June 8 | 2012
1 Looking to Spend the Weekend With Your Guitar?

Track Your Progress on Brand New Song Lessons!

Iggy Pop - Candy
It's time to sate your sweet tooth with the early 90s power punk pop tune "Candy", by the inimitable Iggy Pop. This is a great driving, straight-ahead rhythm song with terrific dynamics.
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3 Doors Down - It's Not My Time
It is your time! In this series of lessons, Lee Wanner will lay out all the parts in the dynamic and commanding modern hard rocker "It's Not My Time", by 3 Doors Down. This emotional tune has a lot of cool parts that you will really enjoy playing.
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Queen- I Want To Break Free
Let's break free and take a trip back to the 80's to learn the song, "I Want To Break Free" as made famous by Queen. Queen was an adventurous band, and in this tune we find them in a jaunty, synth-driven new wave mood with Brian May playing acoustic and electric guitars to augment the arrangement
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2 The Core Learning System: The Path to Success

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3 Guitar Tricks 129: Rock Songwriting Tips



In this episode Neal share's his most important songwriting tips, the 3 elements needed to create a great rock riff. It's easy, and once you know these 3 elements you'll be able to create your own, original, great rock riffs, the foundation of just about every great rock song.

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4 Free Lesson: Hybrid Picking Exercise

Here's the first exercise in developing hybrid picking. Notice the snap of the picking hand fingers and how the pick and fingers have a "grabbing" motion. They almost lock together and work as a separate instrument. Use this simple exercise to develop the muscle memory you'll need to proceed in this tutorial.

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5 Cheap vs. Expensive Guitars: 4 Common Misconceptions
Cheap vs. Expensive


When I was a teenager looking to upgrade from the Yamaha acoustic my parents had bought me as a starter guitar to something that better fit my burgeoning career as a musician, I saved up many, many paychecks from my menial job and splurged on a 12-string Ovation acoustic-electric. The band Heart was big back then, and that's what Nancy Wilson played. She was my frame of reference. If it was good enough for Nancy, I reckoned it was good enough for me, Ms. Rock-Star-in-the-Making. .
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