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What Bohlinger Plays: Tommy Emmanuel-Inspired Pull-Off Riff
June 19, 2018
Wrap your mitts around a shockingly easy pentatonic pattern that the Aussie flattop master uses on numbers such as "Classical Gas."
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What Bohlinger Plays: The Best Turnaround Ever
March 20, 2018
How to play a deceptively simple—and impressive—turnaround that uses hybrid picking.
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What Bohlinger Plays: Behind-the-Slide Blues
December 5, 2017
The Review Demo maestro walks you through a descending lick that's a cinch to transpose to any key.
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What Bohlinger Plays: Slippery Swingin’ Riff in E
October 17, 2017
How to play a Jerry Reed-inspired pattern fit for everything from blues and country to more rockin’ fare.
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What Bohlinger Plays - Cascading Jangle Riff in E
August 8, 2017
Watch and learn a hooky pull-off motif inspired by rock ’n’ roll icon Buddy Holly.
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What Bohlinger Plays: Double-Stop Bends
May 23, 2017
Vintage Strat in hand, the popular Last Call columnist shows you how to play dreamy, pedal-steel-like bends up and down the neck.
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What Bohlinger Plays - Bouncing Slide in Standard Tuning
December 27, 2016
PG's Nashville correspondent shares a deceptively complicated-sounding technique you can use to easily make your slide work sound more intricate.
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What Bohlinger Plays: Magic Triad Pull-Offs
October 11, 2016
PG's John Bohlinger brings along his trusty robot drummer and walks us through Albert Lee-inspired three-note licks you can adapt to a variety of rhythms, tempos, and styles.
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What Bohlinger Plays: Fretting Behind the Slide
July 28, 2016
The Lee Brice guitarist unpacks a simple technique that opens the portal to vast new worlds in slide playing.
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What Bohlinger Plays: Scotty Moore-Style Banjo Rollin'
March 29, 2016
The Lee Brice sideman straps on a stunning Gretsch White Falcon and shows you how to invoke Elvis Presley’s legendary sideman with a series of galloping pull-offs you can use in I–IV–V progressions.
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What Bohlinger Plays: Rockabilly I, IV, V
November 30, 2015
PG’s Review Demo and Rig Rundown guru explains the ins and outs of a movable pull-off pattern that’ll immediately impart your licks with the sort of vibe you’d hear in a tune by Les Paul or Bill Haley & His Comets.
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What Bohlinger Plays: Hybrid-Picking Double-Stop Chromaticism
September 23, 2015
In this installment, the Lee Brice sideman pairs sophisticated-sounding chromatic-scale moves with a hybrid-picking technique you can easily move around the fretboard for a unique sound in a variety of styles and keys.
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What Bohlinger Plays: Easy, Jazz-ish Passing Chords
August 5, 2015
In this installment, he shows you how to insert sophisticated-sounding chord splashes into arrangements without studying for years on end to be a bona fide jazz guru.
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What Bohlinger Plays: Slide 101 Standard-Tuning Tips & Tricks Pt. 2
May 5, 2015
In this second installment on slide work, PG's John Bohlinger walks you through some impressive-sounding but fairly basic licks to use in a typical I-IV-V blues progression in A major.
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What Bohlinger Plays: Cascading G Riff
March 24, 2015
Premier Guitar's John Bohlinger dissects a G-major lick that mixes fretted notes with open strings to create a dynamic motif that can be transposed to multiple keys and used in virtually any genre.
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What Bohlinger Plays: Slide 101 Standard-Tuning Tips & Tricks Pt. 1
February 17, 2015
John Bohlinger—Lee Brice sideman and PG Rig Rundown and Review Demo badass—deconstructs the simple techniques he uses to sound great when playing slide in standard tuning.
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What Bohlinger Plays: Van Halen-ish Hillbilly Licks
January 7, 2015
The PG review-demo master and regular Rig Rundown host shows you the power of open strings in a backwoods variation of Van Halen-style riffs.
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