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Hooked: Simon McBride on Gary Moore's "Back on the Streets"
Simon McBride on Gary Moore's "Back on the Streets" | Hooked

The current Deep Purple guitarist explains how he was floored by the song's speedy pentatonic opening, groovy blues moves, and unique chord choices.

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Sometimes slow and steady doesn’t win the race.

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Intermediate

• Develop a better sense of shred.

• Understand how to phrase in odd-numbered groups.

• Create blistering pentatonic lines in the style of Joe Bonamassa and Eric Johnson

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Since blues playing and improvisation is based around vocabulary, you can’t just throw in intervallic fusion lines or neoclassical sweep arpeggios and expect them to fit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for experimenting with sounds from different genres, but you’ll want to pick the right moments to work in these ideas. Having a strong foundation in the blues will ground the listener and make the experiments pop out more without alienating them. So, let’s look at a handful of shreddy blues licks that you can throw down at the next local blues jam without (hopefully) drawing the blues purist’s wrath upon you.
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Hooked: Howlin' Rain on Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town"
Howlin Rain's on Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town" | Hooked

Howlin' Rain frontman and Heron Oblivion bassist Ethan Miller gets poetic about the prismatic, horn-like lines that have long inspired him.