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Hey Jazz Guy, October 2011
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Hey Jazz Guy,
I feel like all my solos sound the same. Any
advice on how I can diversify? –Uniform in
Unity Village
Dear Uni,
What a great
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The Bluesy Beauty of Bent Unisons
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Who is the best? Clapton?
Page? Beck? Hendrix? That question dominated
discussions between fledgling guitarists
in the late ’60s and early ’70s.
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David Grissom’s Badass Bends
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Last month we grabbed a piece
of David Grissom’s open-string magic,
but that’s only one part of his multi-faceted
6-string chicanery. He’s also
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The Fabulous Fretwork of Jon Herington
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“Whenever I’m playing on a
classic Steely Dan tune, the challenge for
me is to honor the original but still find a
way to make it my own,” says
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David Grissom’s Awesome Open Strings
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DAVID GRISSOM HAS BASED A CAREER ON GETTING
a great sound, playing perfectly tasty lines that are at home in a
variety of styles and never upstage
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Jon Herington’s Chordal Navigation Tactics
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FOR MANY GUITARISTS, MELODICALLY
soloing over specified chord changes can
seem as daunting a task as navigating the
backstreets of an unfamiliar
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10 Things You Gotta Do to Play Like Dick Dale
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Long hailed as the indisputable King of Surf Guitar and the Father of Loud, living legend and American icon Dick Dale never actually set out to
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The Rockabilly Scale
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HERE’S A SOMEWHAT EXTREME
but quite useful application of the February
2011 issue’s “Modded Pentatonic” concept.
Take the open-position E minor
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Hey Jazz Guy, August 2011
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Hey Jazz Guy,
I’m always playing the same rhythms, usually
constant eighth-notes. How can I get more
rhythmic variety in my playing?—Constant
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Classical Sequences
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IN THIS LESSON
we’ll be looking
at some sequential
phrases found
in classical music
that have influenced
the rock and
fusion guitar
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Hey Jazz Guy, July 2011
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Hey Jazz Guy,
Now that I’ve got the inside playing down,
how ’bout that “out” stuff?
—Inside in Indianapolis
Dear Inside,
How ’bout that “out”
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Pierre Bensusan's Etude Salsa
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This “Étude,” or study, is an
excerpt from the composition “Agadiramadan”
from my album Intuite (which is also
published in The Intuite Guitar
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Rockabilly Solo Techniques
:
I HAVE BEEN GETTING QUITE A
few requests for rockabilly lately. I decided
to put together a fun rockabilly solo using
some typical stylistic
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Quick Licks
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FAT LIZZY
When I was playing in a power trio and someone requested “The Boys Are Back in Town,” I was in a bit of a bind. What to do
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Back to School Andreas Oberg Harnesses the Hypnotic Harmonies of the Whole-Tone Scale
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TO MOST ROCK GUITARISTS, THE
whole-tone scale remains an enigma—a perfectly
symmetrical pattern of pitches that
is simple to visualize on
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