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Bluegrass Variations: “Salt Creek” from Four Masters
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Bluegrass Variations: “Salt Creek” from Four Masters

Twelve golden nuances gleaned from flatpicking giants Norman Blake, Tony Rice, David Grier, and Bryan Sutton.

Style Guide: Essential Blues Progressions
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Style Guide: Essential Blues Progressions

Beef up your knowledge of everything from the basic 12-bar blues form to more jazz-influenced progressions—and even a few 9-bar blues.

The Guitarist's Guide to the CAGED System
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The Guitarist's Guide to the CAGED System

Learn how to map out the fretboard and be able to play in any key using a few basic open-position chord shapes.

Style Guide: Django Reinhardt and Gypsy Jazz
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Style Guide: Django Reinhardt and Gypsy Jazz

Uncover the secrets behind Django''s style by learning about three- and four-note voicings, blazing arpeggios, and some cool diminished-sounding tricks.

Fretboard Workshop: Increasing a Lick's ROI
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Fretboard Workshop: Increasing a Lick's ROI

Chops: Intermediate Theory: Intermediate Lesson Overview: • Develop techniques to milk everything from your go-to phrases. • Learn how to tailor each phrase to specific chords. • Create simple

Style Guide: Uptown Blues
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Style Guide: Uptown Blues

Explore what T-Bone Walker and others did in their solos and chord playing to achieve that uptown sound.

Acoustic Adventures: Open for Business
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Acoustic Adventures: Open for Business

No longer relegated to beginner-level melodies or open-position chords, open strings can add sonic spice to your solos and make them come alive.

Style Guide: Acoustic Blues Guitar
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Style Guide: Acoustic Blues Guitar

Today we’ll look at three types of bass lines that help define the sound of three sub-styles of fingerstyle blues: monotone bass, alternating bass, and boogie-woogie bass.