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This early 90s grunge classic that features one electric guitar playing rhythm riffs and a simple lead. The guitar uses a clean sound up to the solo, then switches to an overdriven tone for the rest of the tune. This song uses open chords and power chords, a solid strummed approach, and some simple pentatonic based leads.

Dave will show you all the guitar layers in this classic rock radio hit. There's a clean guitar part that sets the pace of the song using an R&B style playing style in an uptempo groove.

Anders will show you all three guitar parts in this classic early rock song. There's a driving acoustic rhythm guitar, strumming the basic open chords. There's an electric rhythm guitar that plays the main riff during the whole song, as well as chords during the choruses. Finally there's the reverb-effected electric lead guitar, which only comes in for the solo.

Tom will show you the great blues guitar parts in this classic song: the intro, the verses, the harp solo accompaniment, and the ending.

Douglas will show you this new wave classic featuring lots of cool guitar parts and textures that give you a great representation of some of the guitar sounds heard in the early 80's. These include some funky, minor pentatonic licks, textured guitars with lots and lots of reverb, some cool guitar counterpoint, as well some ringing harmonics with a whammy bar and some effects.

Dave will show you the single acoustic guitar part in this classic 60 pop rock song. The part features delicately finger-picked chords, melodies, and bass notes. This song is in the key of E minor and 4/4 time at a tempo of 110 BPM.

Anders will show you how to play this classic tune on an acoustic guitar. The original only had a 12-string acoustic playing during the chorus. Anders will show you how to adapt that part for a regular 6-string acoustic. There's a part that fits with the orchestral part, but can also stand on its own if you ever want to play this song by yourself.

Mike will show you the two guitar layers in this classic rock tune. There is a rhythm guitar that pays a steady boogie riff chord progression throughout and a lead guitar which lays into some classic rock fills and soloing.

Caren will show you the chords, the boom-chuck technique and the alternating bass motion used to play the acoustic guitar part to this classic country tune.

In this series of song lessons, Mike Olekshy will be teaching you "Runaway", by Del Shannon. Mike will introduce the song then talk about gear and tone, then get right into the intro riff and verse strumming in the song. We'll look at the pre-chorus strumming and modulation next, which will lead us into the chorus hits. As a bonus, Mike will teach you the classic Musitron solo, adapted for guitar. We'll conclude with a play along performance, then you take over in the jam along.