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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Crazy! Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Fusion

Excerpt: Lick 3! This one is Guthrie at his core. It uses a lot of different techniques and some interesting note chooses. The really nutty part is the sweep...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Holiday

Excerpt: The most technically demanding aspect of this arrangement is the control of the individual voices. It is a good idea to study the score away from you...

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Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Metal

Excerpt: In this section, we are going to use the same melodic idea from the previous figure, but amped up with the guitar turned up and adding in hammer-on an...

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Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Crazy! Topic: Technique Style: Metal

Excerpt: Lick 3! Remember: 1. Analyze the accuracy of both hands. The idea is to find a way to make them work together smoothly. Take your time and DON'T for...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Holiday

Excerpt: ...The basic melody-line from Walter Rollins' "Frosty The Snowman"! Be sure to, yet again, focus on phrasing nuances and vibrato; it's important when...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Holiday

Excerpt: To close out the piece, we'll be playing a rockin' breakdown that will be sure to wreak havoc on the North Pole. So get ready to rock! We'll now be p...

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Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Now, here is the aspect of shell voicings that I think you'll find the most useful. They make a fantastic starting point for building our chord vocabu...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Classical

Excerpt: Hey there and welcome to another lesson with me here at the web's coolest guitar instructional site! We will be looking at a very popular piece for c...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Holiday

Excerpt: Up next, the only "fully original" section of the medley; an arpeggio sequence used as a compositional segway. Ay 180BPM, 8th notes should be well wi...

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Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Jazz

Excerpt: Our last chord progression is going to live firmly in the jazz camp. It's still a blues, but it's mainly called a 'Parker Blues'. Named after the famo...

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Instructor: Lucas Fowler Level: Beginner Topic: Interviews Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Hi guys! I wanted to do an interview with one of my good friends, Kyle Odell, from the band Failure Anthem. Kyle and I have known each other for sever...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Classical

Excerpt: OK, what I think would be a great way of approaching this study would be to play each triplet pattern as a block chord, homophonically just to get tho...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Crazy! Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Fusion

Excerpt: Lick 4 The last lick is a tapping lick that uses some 7th chord arpeggios. Very similar to the video on Guthrie's arpeggios that a did I while. If ...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Holiday

Excerpt: This section moves away from the previous homophonic approach and incorporates a lot more changes in rhythm with a more jazzy harmony. It is essentia...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Holiday

Excerpt: This part is for those of you Elves that have graduated primary school and are ready to move on to Elf college! Here it gets a little more tricky. Th...

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