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  • Guitar Riff on the C Major Chord

    Guitar Riff on the C Major Chord

    Here’s another riff for you guys looking for something else for your guitar’s arsenal… this one today is in the key of G major, and it works off the C+ chord. Just as an aside, if you haven’t seen the ( + ) used before, it is shorthand for ‘major.’ The flip side to that
  • Learn How To Play Guitar

    Learn How To Play Guitar

    So you want to learn how to play guitar do you? Well congratulations, because in my ever so humble opinion, learning to play the guitar is among the most rewarding things that you can learn. The goal of this article is not to turn you into some kind of overnight rock star, but rather to
  • The One String Rockstar Riff

    The One String Rockstar Riff

    Alright all you one finger wonders out there, this one is for you! This is a fun kind of riff that you can really do pretty much anything you want with, once you get the hang of it. The main idea is that you’re using the open E string as a drone, and then you’re
  • String Stretching Riff For Beginners

    String Stretching Riff For Beginners

    In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn a cool blues riff that revolves around a string stretch. This is kind of an “advanced-beginner” level riff, because the overall riff is fairly easy to pickup; however to really pull it off smoothly you need to be able to master a couple important techniques. The stretch itself is
  • Play Like Chuck Berry: Inspired Licks

    Play Like Chuck Berry: Inspired Licks

    Chuck Berry wrote and played some of the most iconic rock and roll guitar licks of all time. Today, we’re going to take a look at one of those Chuck Berry licks in detail so you can go to town with it! This one comes out of the pentatonic minor 2 position scale; basically just
  • Slide Guitar: Open D Major Tricks

    Slide Guitar: Open D Major Tricks

    Slide guitar is a lot of fun to play, partly because it is so different from how you’d normally play a guitar, and partly because it can be so expressive. In this lesson Colin Daniel (from RiffNinja.com) teaches how to play a few slide riffs in between the rhythm. The rhythm we’ll use is a
  • 3 Chromatic Blues Licks in E

    3 Chromatic Blues Licks in E

    There’s nothing like a good 12 bar blues to let you throw in a few blues licks while you’re jamming around, but the actual rhythm part of the 12 bar is usually pretty easy to pickup. So, today I’ve got three blues licks for you to work on. Once you’ve got those nailed down, take

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  • Music Lessons From a Dramatic Hamster

    Music Lessons From a Dramatic Hamster

    Here’s something a little out of the usual for you. A YouTube video about a dramatic hamster… turned into a music lesson? Hey, ya gotta have a little fun sometimes, ya know? So I came across this bizzare short video (it is embedded at the end of the post) on Youtube called “Dramatic Hamster” and
  • How To Break The “I Can’t Solo” Curse

    “I just CAN’T SOLO!!” Man, the guy was frustrated. He’d tried all kinds of things in order to learn how to solo. He’d learned the pentatonic minor scale (a GREAT start by the way) but he couldn’t figure out how to make his solo sound like anything BUT the scale. He’d tried copying solos verbatim