August 2020 Guitar Player Lesson Audio

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This page contains the audio for the lessons in the August 2020 issue of Guitar Player.

Bending Steel

Learn how to mimic the sweetly weeping sounds of the pedal steel guitar.

Blues Comping 101

Learn some standard and effective rhythm and chord playing approaches for blues.

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Launched in 1967, Guitar Player was the world's first guitar magazine and is now one of the premier sources of guitar news, interviews, reviews and lessons. When a story is credited to 'GP Editors', it means it's coming from the magazine team itself and that more than one of us has worked on the story.

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