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When you are young and first learning how to play the guitar, your guitar teacher probably told you to practice your scales until your fingers bled. That type of instruction is one of the main reasons why so many young guitarists quit altogether. Doing hours and hours of scales is not fun and not why they started playing the guitar in the first place.
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Guitarists all over the world are looking to learn more and more cool blues guitar licks. If you walk into any guitar store, you usually find a couple of guys in the corner trading licks and swapping ideas. We all know that the key to really mastering blues guitar is to learn more and more licks and using them in our solos. Now, in just a bit I’m gonna tell you where you can lay your hands on a goldmine of awesome blues licks, but before I do, I want to give you some essential tips to get you learning faster and playing better solos than ever before.
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Blues guitar scales provide the foundation for pretty much every blues song ever written. Not only are they used to create the awesome guitar solos we all know and love, they form the foundation of the actual songs themselves. Essentially, the first step on the ladder is to learn the pentatonic scale.
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Learn to sing and play guitar using this dead-easy method. No need to be concerned about how difficult it seems to be. This short article will take you one step at a time, all the way from choosing a tune to performing it — with you singing and playing at the same time.
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Blues guitar riffs are a key ingredient in your guitar playing arsenal. Without a sizeable library of riffs, your skills are going to suffer and your solos aren’t going to sound as good as they could do. Now, I’m going to show you where you can download some tabs for some awesome riffs but first, I’m going to give you some essential tips to make sure you get the best out of them.
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Blues pentatonic scales for the guitar are one of the simplest tools you can use to create some awesome solos. These simple 5 note scales have been the basis for hundreds of classic solos from BB King’s “Thrill is Gone” to “Strange Brew” by Cream. So let’s no waste any more time and get stuck into learning a couple of the shapes in the key of A.
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Everybody is looking to learn new blues licks. For guitar players like us especially, we will spend huge amounts of time learning and perfecting them for our guitar solos. There are literally thousands of books and DVD’s available featuring licks in a million different styles but what the don’t tell you is how to actually get the best out of them.
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It has been four years since the queen of pop released her last album and since then allot has changed, mainly the introduction of the sensation that is Lady Gaga. Gaga may have pushed the distant memory of Christina out of our thoughts however in typical Christina Aguilera fashion she’s back and she isn’t about to go down without a fight. Lady Gaga has set the bar very high so in order for Christina Aguilera to have any chance she must come out fighting otherwise she may as well go home.
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When I heard that indie sensation Keane were going to delve into the world of rap music my first thought was “What?” and my second thought was “why?” I admit I was sceptical of listening to the music never mind purchasing it, however being a fan of Keane I decided I would get the Album anyway.
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Are you one of the people whom attempted to learn how to play a piano/keyboard in earlier years, then consequently decided that you just didn’t have the manual dexterity required to spread your fingers across the required keys? Did something as simple as a C chord make your fingers ache and the concept of playing a melody at the same time as a chord completely baffle your senses?
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