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    Blues
 Call and Response: Phrasing Ideas for Creating Memorable Solos 
by Tom Kolb
How to pull of the conversational call-and-response technique popular in blues soloing
    Rock
 Danny Gill's Rock Guitar Harmonics  web exclusive
by Danny Gill
How to create natural and pinch harmonics in a rock setting.
    Fierce Guitar
 Legato Exercises 

Rusty Cooley offers up some exercises to perfect your legato technique
    Rock
 Legato Phrasing: Liquid Lead Lines 
by Chad Johnson
Hammering down on your hammer-ons for stellar legato lead lines
    Acoustic & Fingerstyle
 Lute Tuning: Tackling the World’s Oldest Tuning 
by Joe Bennett
Lute tuning is one of the oldest known tunings; learn how to do it, and a song that uses it.
    Acoustic & Fingerstyle
 Nancy Wilson's Acoustic Picking Techniques  web exclusive
by Nancy WIlson
Travis picking, hybrid picking and other techniques used by the Heart frontwoman.
    Eclectic Guitar
 Open String Fling 

Playing fast the easy way
    Lethal Guitar
 Sweep Picking 501  web exclusive

A comprehensive illustration of the two-string arpeggio in major, minor, diminished and augmented.
    Jazz
 The Tetratonic Scale 
by Sid Jacobs
Jazzy Lines Based on the Four-note Symmetrical Scale