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May 18 | 2012

...and the New Song Lessons Keep Rollin' Out!

2 Must-Learn New Song Lessons to Grind Out!

Marty Robbins - El Paso
"El Paso", as made famous by Marty Robbins, was a #1 hit way back in 1959 and won a Grammy award for best country & western song. Anders Mouridsen will be taking you back in time to teach you this sweet, lilting, and melodic tex-mex flavored song in 3/4 time.

Heart - Magic Man
Are you ready for some magic? "Magic Man", by Heart, is a truly magical tune from back in the 70s. Mike Olekshy will help you understand all the details to this song in nineteen guitar lessons; the great rock rhythms, the guitar layers, and loads of fantastic leads and soloing.

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Guitar Tricks 126: Southern Rock Lick

This week Neal combines major and minor for a southern fried rock lick in A. This lick sounds great in a country style with clean guitar or also with a dirty tone for rock and blues.

Tip of the Week: How to use licks you already know to create a riff.

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The Better Way To Learn Chords!

Last week we showed you the Ultimate Scale Finder but now it's time to improve your chord vocabulary! The Ultimate Chord Finder puts thousands of guitar chords at your fingertips. With full support for every chord type in every key throughout the fretboard, Ultimate Chord Finder will teach you how to play any chord on the guitar.

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Free Lesson: Major Pentatonic Licks

The rules of the Connecting Game are simple:

Pick a chord progression.
Play the arpeggio of each chord in the chord progression as the chords change.
Jump to the closest note in the next arpeggio - don't always start on the root.

In this lesson we will play over one bar of Am, one bar of F major, one bar of C major, and one bar of G major

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Top 5 Live Rock Performances

The Beatles

I feel the need to place a small caveat on this article before jumping in. Lists, unless they are based on something measurable (like dollars earned or number of people who were there) are nothing more than just an opinion of the person making the list No doubt that there are going to be countless other live performances that should be included on this list and by not including them, I am certainly not ignoring them or deriding their importance. I have no doubts that...

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