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As guitarists, we’re always looking for new sounds and inspiration, and love to explore new techniques. But if you still find yourself trapped in the confines of pentatonic and major scales, a ...
Guitar skills: let's get one thing straight – you don't need to know a lot of scales to be a good guitarist. In fact, if you've been playing for under a year you could quite safely get away with only ...
Eddie Van Halen has written his own share of classic guitar pieces, but he's only inherited it from this living legend of the fretboard.
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The electric guitar might be a relatively new instrument in the grand scheme of things, but Jeff Beck felt no one did it ...
Joe Bonamassa, the decorated blues guitar player and owner of home-turned-museum, Nerdville, is keen to dispel a myth about himself. “No,” he tells Guitarist, “I have not purchased all the guitars in ...
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Pentatonic scales, the basic building blocks of blues-based guitar soloing, are predominant here, but Eddie transforms them via an array of techniques that became signature parts of the Van Halen ...