Guitar Lessons

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My Favorite Thing: Tom Wolfe

It is fairly common for guitar players to memorize chord fingerings (or grips) and then play songs using muscle memory. Speaking as a guitar player, I admit t...
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My Favorite Thing: Bill Evans

One of my favorite things is adding color to my solos by going outside the key and then resolving back to the key. You can almost do just about anything while y...
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Fingerstyle Blues Improv: #3 7th Chords

This free video guitar lesson series by Pete Madsen shows you how to create verse variations and to improvise in fingerstyle blues. About this Guitar Lesson ...
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Fingerstyle Blues Improv: #2 Minor Chords

This free video guitar lesson series by Pete Madsen shows you how to create verse variations and to improvise in fingerstyle blues. About this Guitar Lesson ...
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Pentatonic Poetry: #5 Add a Dash of Flash

Pentatonic Poetry is a free video guitar lesson series by Tobias Hurwitz. For more free lessons from this series, be sure to subscribe. In this last installm...
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Pentatonic Poetry: #4 Make It Talk

Pentatonic Poetry is a free video guitar lesson series by Tobias Hurwitz. For more free lessons from this series, be sure to subscribe. This lesson is my per...

President Bush “Plays” the Guitar

Happy Presidents' Day! Back in 1989 during the inauguration party of President George Bush (the first), the news organizations snapped this picture of the presi...