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In this Guitar Lick of the Day series you'll learn how to play in the style of '60s funk & soul legends James Brown, The Meters, Booker T & the MGs and Sly & The Family Stone. One key element you'll develop is a strong sense of rhythm by incorporating syncopated strumming patterns while playing a variety of Dom 7 and Dom 9 chords and using various guitar licks. This is an excellent lesson series for any guitarist looking to enhance their rhythm guitar chops.
About '60s Funk & Soul:
"Funk" originated in the mid '60s when James Brown first introduced "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag." This infectious sound quickly caught the attention of the world and landed Mr. Brown the title of "The Godfather of Funk & Soul." The funk sound featured tight syncopated bass and drum back beats with "scratch" guitar rhythms playing over the groove. Simultaneously bands like Booker T & the
MG's were pioneering new sounds with their unique version of soul & rock 'n roll.
20 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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In the 1960s artists like James Brown, the Meters and Sly and the Family Stone fused their Blues, R & B and Rock 'n Roll influences into what was later labeled as "funk." These artists made a profound impacted on the music industry and influenced a whole new generation of musicians who strived to develop their own unique style of funk. Bands like Parliament/Funkadelic, Brothers Johnson, Average White Band, Tower of Power, Ohio Players and many others burst onto the music scene driven by a new dance craze sweeping the world called "disco." Some of these bands rode the disco wave to success while others continued on a path to develop their own sound.
The early funk sound featured tight syncopated bass and drum back beats with "scratch" guitar rhythms playing over the groove, but the 1970s ushered in a new variation to this sound featuring more rock guitar licks influenced by players like Jimi Hendrix and the emergence of "slap" bass.
18 Licks, 5 Interactive Lessons
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Folk guitar is the cornerstone of modern music. Migrating from Europe as the "common man's music", it soon flourished throughout the new world, branching into country, blues, rock 'n roll, and classical. This guitar driven sound influenced many contemporary folk artists the likes of Bob Dylan, Jim Croce, James Taylor, Joan Beaz, Joni Mitchell on up to modern folk artists like Jewel, Dave Matthews, David Gray, etc.
This lesson series focuses on many aspects of the acoustic folk sound, stressing on playing open chords and applying various picking and finger-picking patterns. The magic of this sounds comes together when you can apply these techniques together forming an orchestra of sounds, thus filling the room or recording with the sound of a single guitar. Many of these patterns are at the intermediate and above level, but most beginners will find some of these guitar patterns easy to learn and very inspiring to play as well!
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In this lesson series you'll learn various acoustic strumming and picking patterns which synchronize to chord progressions and lick patterns. Intermediate & above players will benefit by learning how to improve their picking technique and create their own chord progressions. Beginners will benefit from learning many new picking patterns while using basic chords.
Bluegrass Info:
The Kentucky bluegrass sound originates from mandolin legend Bill Monroe (9/13/11 - 9/9/96) who is credited as being "the father of bluegrass." This lively, infectious sound is credited as being the roots of many genres of music, including Country/Western, Honky Tonk, Western Swing, Folk, Rockabilly and Rock & Roll.
23 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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In this lesson series we will explore the various stages of Alex Lifeson's guitar style with Rush. The band started with a heavy rock Led Zeppelin influence, but migrated to a progressive rock sound with the addition of drummer Neil Peart. Rush was able to pull off intricate progressive arrangements with only three musicians. The guitar was key to creating the color of the band's sound while Alex would explore combing electric & acoustic guitar, mellow polytonal chords, powerful rock riffs and shearing guitar solos to create a very dynamic and unique sound. If you have always wanted to play like Rush, this is the lesson series for you!
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For well over twenty years, the style of Angus Young has been one of the most recognizable in the world of rock guitarists. Considered by many as "the riffmaster", his high voltage attack and no nonsense approach to tone have left so many others trying to imitate him. In this series you will learn rhythm and lead riffs all in the style of the mighty Angus as you jam along. Designed for the beginner to intermediate student.
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If you are looking for new riffs and new sounds to learn and play, no matter what style, then these lessons are for you! This series of lessons will teach you arpeggios and some creative ideas on how to apply them while improvising. An arpeggio is playing the tones of a chord melodically rather than harmonically. You can learn a few basic arpeggios, then apply a few simple substitution rules to create different sounding arpeggios from the same ordinary ones you know.
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Do you want to learn how to play the blues like "the King?" You can in just a very short time with these lessons specifically designed to teach anyone from beginners to advanced how to play blues guitar riffs and solos just like the King of the Blues himself, Mr. BB King. Learn from simple step-by-step instructions on how the style and sound of the King's legendary riffs can be mastered by you from this high quality Riff Interactive lesson series. Learn the scales, riff positions, signature blues riffs and solos with the help from lots of video clips, interactive TAB, and play-along jam tracks in all 5 of these lessons. There is no better way to learn the blues other than to start by learning from the best, the BB King style.
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Learning classical guitar can be both challenging and very exciting. Learning how to coordinate basic chords with fingerpicking brings the guitar alive. In this lesson series you will learn standard compositions designed for beginners and taught in most method book. The Riff Interactive technology takes learning classical guitar to a new level where you the student have full control over selecting segments to rehearse and practice over and over again.
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Congratulations, you have chosen to play guitar! Maybe somebody gave you a guitar as a gift recently, or you had a guitar sitting in the closet and always wanted to learn how to play, or maybe you finally bought yourself your own guitar. Either way, you're going to have fun learning, practicing, and playing guitar with these Riff Interactive lessons designed just for you, the total beginning guitarist!
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All the lesson examples in this series were designed for the beginner, with easy-to-understand notation, pictures, videos, and straightforward timing and rhythm examples. Learn how the fretboard is laid out and learn the name of the notes everywhere. Learn to play a song as well as learning your first real major and minor chords that you'll be able to use in thousands of songs.
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Even though chord names like Dominant 7 and Major 7 sound like they could be complicated to learn and play, they're not. In fact they can be just as simple to learn and play as the first basic major and minor chords you may have already learned. In these lessons you'll first learn the simple open position Dominant 7 chords to help you get a Blues sound on your guitar. Then you'll be learning the open position Major 7 chords, which are used in ballads and can have a Jazz sound to them. Finally, learn the most used chords in the Rock guitar style, the Power Chords! You will also learn to play a song in three different keys using some of these simple chords. All the lesson examples in this series were designed for the beginner, with easy-to-understand notation, pictures, videos, and straightforward timing and rhythm examples.
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Even though chord names like Dominant 7 and Major 7 sound like they could be complicated to learn and play, they're not. In fact they can be just as simple to learn and play as the first basic major and minor chords you may have already learned. In these lessons you'll first learn the simple open position Dominant 7 chords to help you get a Blues sound on your guitar. Then you'll be learning the open position Major 7 chords, which are used in ballads and can have a Jazz sound to them. Finally, learn the most used chords in the Rock guitar style, the Power Chords! You will also learn to play a song in three different keys using some of these simple chords. All the lesson examples in this series were designed for the beginner, with easy-to-understand notation, pictures, videos, and straightforward timing and rhythm examples.
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Learn how to become a good rhythm guitar player with these simple lessons designed for the beginning guitarist. Being able to correctly strum a simple rhythm pattern makes all the difference in the world when you are trying to play along with others or make the song you're playing sound right, yet it can be difficult for many beginning guitar students at first. These lessons will show you simple exercises and examples on how to play basic strumming patterns that will make your rhythm playing sound like a pro!
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Melody, harmony, chords, arpeggios, and music theory all have several things in common, they relate to scales. If you want to play a beautiful melody, you'll use a scale. If you want to improvise, you'll use a scale. These lessons will help you learn the basic scales used in most situations.
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Do you want to be able to just hear a song, then be able to play it without knowing ahead of time what the notes or chords are? Many professional musicians can do that because of years of "ear training". Ear training for the guitarist is all about teaching and training your ear to recognize sounds and then be able to find and play the sounds on your guitar. Those sounds could be chords, scales, melodies, riffs, or even just single notes. You don't need to have, or develop perfect pitch, you only need to learn how to train your ear to help your fingers find the notes and chords on your guitar as you hear them.
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"We are still the same three guys basically playing the same three chords that have kept us going through three decades." says guitarist Billy F. Gibbons. Known as "That Little ol' Band from Texas", ZZ Top has been one of America's true blues-rock trios. Front man and guitarist Billy F. Gibbons has always been among the leaders in guitar style, tone and innovation with songs like La Grange, Legs, Tush, Cheap Sunglasses & many more.
This is a must have series for all students of the blues. Skill level is from beginner to intermediate and packed full of rhythm and lead riffs along with CD quality play along jam tracks to help teach you the style of this great guitar virtuoso a.k.a. "The Boogie Man."
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Do you want to learn how to play the "12 bar blues" so you can sit in and jam with your friends? Now you can after you learn these lessons specifically designed for beginning guitarists. You'll learn how to play basic blues rhythm riffs and simple blues solos in styles reminiscent of Clapton and ZZ Top. Once you learn the riffs in each lesson you'll be able to play along to the looping jam tracks so you can practice playing with 'the band'!
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Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker & Buddy Guy
Blues Legends I covers the styles of some of the most influential blues guitarists in history (Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Buddy Guy). These licks and rhythms are essential to any guitarist learning to play the blues. Many of these licks are at the intermediate level, but most beginners will find these guitar licks easy to learn and very fun to play!
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BB King, Albert King & Freddie King
KING OF THE BLUES! All three of these legendary blues Kings have each significantly shaped the blues as we know it today. Players like Stevie Ray Vaughan have credited these players as the foundation of his blues sound. These licks and rhythms can help shape your blues style as well! Many of these licks are at the intermediate and above level, but most beginners will find some of these guitar licks easy to learn and very inspiring to play as well!
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Acoustic Delta Blues
Robert Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson
This is where it all started! These legendary players influenced generations of
guitar players and planted the seeds of the blues. This lesson series covers
both standard tuning licks, acoustic fingerpicking licks and two slide lessons
that use an open G tuning which was commonly used by Robert Johnson and Blind
Willie Johnson. Many of these licks are at the intermediate and above level, but
most beginners will find some of these guitar licks easy to learn and very
inspiring to play as well!
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In this series you will learn several licks, tricks, techniques and equipment info on how to recreate Brian May's style. Brian introduced many revolutionary studio and effect techniques to create one of the most distinctive guitar sounds in rock. Most of his licks are easy to play, however it's how you layer the guitar parts over the other tracks that creates his guitar orchestra sound. In this lesson you'll learn how to create guitar harmonies while playing over the multi-layered jam tracks to experience of how to play like Brian.
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Over the course of this series you will learn how to play some of Brian's most popular licks. We begin by exploring some rockabilly techniques such as finger picking, blues, rock, and country licks that are all incorporated in the rockabilly style. Then we move on to look at some of Setzer's moodier licks typical of "Stray Cat Strut". From there we'll look into the harmonic minor and minor blues scale and define some good techniques to building Setzer licks. The last thing we look at will be a ballad in 6/8 timing characteristic to the style of music in the 50's, which became the birth of Rockabilly music. We'll discuss a lot of material such as arpeggios and how to jazz them up a bit. Each lesson has videos, tab, pictures, jam tracks, and a short descriptions that will make you feel like you are one on one with the instructor. In no time you'll be playing like Brian Setzer.
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YES, JETHRO TULL, GENESIS, KING CRIMSON, UK
If you are interested in expanding your musical horizon, this is the series for you! You'll experience how to play in the style of British Art Rock bands like Yes (Steve Howe), Jethro Tull (Martin Barre), Genesis (Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford), King Crimson (Robert Fripp), and UK (Alan Holdsworth). All of these artists have made a significant impact on modern guitar. You will learn how to layer simple and complex guitar lines in an multi-instrument composition, how to use both electric and acoustic guitar within a song, learn intermediate to advanced solo techniques and how to understand and write songs with multiple musical segments. This lesson series is designed for the Intermediate and Advanced guitar students, but there are many licks that can be played by beginning students who have been playing for a year or more.
ABOUT BRITISH ART ROCK
British Art Rock bands emerged in the later part of the British Invasion ('60s & '70s), these bends strived to elevate rock music to new levels through artistic expression, and more oriented toward classically and jazz trained instrumental technique. Art rock is more experimental placing more emphasis on layering instruments and advanced solo techniques. The guitar played a very significant role in these compositions and in the over-all sound of the band.
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If there is a single thread uniting the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones with Cream, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Robin Trower it would be the blues. That ultimately guitar-driven, infinitely malleable, intrinsically American art form permeates most of the rock legacy and is a cornerstone of the British Invasion. In the late 1950s and early 1960s when American "race records" and rock 'n' roll sounds began washing up regularly on British shores with them came a handful of blues recordings by then relatively unknown artists. This series guitarist-author-musicologist Wolf Marshall presents a multi-course smorgasbord of British Blues Rock guitar licks for your listening and learning pleasure.
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The Chicago (and Detroit) blues sound originates from early Delta blues licks... only amplified. Experience learning the guitar style of Chicago & Detroit blues artists like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Elmore James. Guitarists like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, among legions of other guitarist, have attributed these blues legends as the reason they would pick up their guitar and passionately play everyday! These fundamental licks will inspire you as well!
Beginners will benefit from learning many licks and will be challenged to learn more advanced phrases and basic slide techniques. Intermediate players will benefit by learning how to use licks as building blocks to create their own phrases and learn many slide licks and important slide techniques!
21 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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The Rock 'n Roll sound changed the way the world experienced music. Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones are both attributed as being cornerstones for this revolutionary sound. This lesson series will teach you fundamentals used by these legendary artists, emphasizing development of a strong rhythm/lead guitar style of the Stones and basic lead licks of Chuck Berry, a perfect combination for any guitarists looking to achieve this sound. Beginners will find these lesson simple, but challenging and intermediate players are given plenty of material to enhance their playing skills.
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Gary Moore, Ry Cooder, Robert Cray & Robben Ford
The splendor of blues guitar is its ability to morph with the interpretation of the individual musician. Early blues masters like Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters,
and BB King expressed that their music didn't come from any formula, only from the soul and day-to-day life experiences. This same spirit is carried on
with later generations of musicians as well. This series will focus on the style of Gary Moore, Ry Cooder, Robert Cray and Robben Ford, each of whom have a very
unique approach to playing the blues.
These lessons will help you explore how to expand on your blues guitar sound. In this series you'll learn the style and techniques used by each of these
guitarists by focusing on playing licks, blues progression variations and adapting other styles of music into the blues sound.
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In the styles of Dave Matthews, David Gray, Ben Harper, Ani DiFranco & Jason Mraz
The late '90s and new millennium ushered in a new wave of folk guitarists inspired by the folk legends of the '60s and '70s. This new breed of folk musician incorporated the styles of such artists as James Taylor, Jim Croce, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, while creating a new sound of their own and expanding the horizon of the acoustic guitar. Each of these featured guitarists are distinctly different in style, which should help you the student expand on your acoustic style.
In this series you'll learn the style and techniques used by each of these modern guitarists by focusing on playing licks and chord progressions, finger picking & strumming variations, and adapting other styles of music into the folk sound.
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Johnny Winter, Duane Allman, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bonnie Raitt & Ry Cooder
Slide guitar originated in the early 1900's in the Mississippi Delta region with players such as the legendary Robert Johnson. This expressive technique soon migrated to Chicago and was popularized by players like Elmore James and Muddy Waters. Slide guitar was then adapted by rock guitarists who added distortion and a more aggressive sound. Players like Johnny Winter, Duane Allman, the guitarists of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bonnie Raitt and Ry Cooder all stand out as contemporary masters of the slide guitar.
In this series you'll learn the style and techniques used by each of these guitarists by focusing on slide techniques and playing licks. All of these licks are in standard tuning to avoid re-tuning the instrument, but focusing on how to use the slide and standard scale patterns.
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If you have interests in becoming a better all-around player, you are encouraged to learn the basics of country style guitar music because it combines the raw elements of blues, rock, jazz and folk to make a traditional sound and style that is unique to American music history. Country style guitar is fun and easy to learn.
In each of these lessons you'll learn strumming patterns that combine the alternate bass note rhythms and walking bass lines which define the country style. You'll also learn many cool lead riffs and complete solos all designed to help any beginner sound like a pro!
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In the styles of Ricky Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band, Poco, New Riders of the Purple Sage, and The Eagles
Country Rock exploded onto the California music scene during the late '60s and flourished as a new form of American music. This new style of rock combined the sounds of country, soul, and blues into one fluent, expressive form of music. The Major Pentatonic and Minor Pentatonic scales are the foundation for most Country Rock licks.
In this series, you will learn various blues/rock licks and movable blues/rock scale patterns. In addition, you'll learn the styles and techniques used by each of these guitar legends by focusing on playing licks, country rock progressions, and adapting other styles of music into the country sound.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan, Billy Gibbons, Eric Clapton and BB King are among the greatest players with the greatest tone. Add another legend to that list, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. With his bluesy Strat tones and soul-wrenching solos from such epic albums like Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall, Gilmour has left an undeniable impression on countless guitarists young and old. In this series you'll explore the solo style of this guitar virtuoso and learn how you can shape your own style with this simple step-by-step approach.
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In this lesson series you'll learn how to play like the incomparable Eddie Van Halen. Eddie came to prominence with Van Halen in the late 70's. His first album floored guitarists with an incredible combination of technique, tone and riffs and is regarded as a hard rock legend. His unaccompanied solo 'Eruption' sent every rock guitarist back to the 'woodshed' to practice their picking, legato and a new, must-know technique - 'two-handed tapping'. This lesson series will cover many of Eddie's techniques and signature licks.
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Very few guitarists have achieved the legendary status that Eric "Slowhand" Clapton has reached. His style and tone have inspired many imitators throughout his long and very successful career. From his early days with Cream, all the way to his record breaking solo era, Clapton has remained a true rock guitar star in every form of the phrase.
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Berklee College of Music graduate Chris Spencer will guide you through a vast array of historic jazz licks that will greatly enhance your playing. You will explore the evolution of the jazz guitar from the swing era to its current state. You will follow a fairly chronological path, starting out with the swing guitarists, moving into the bebop players, and then into the post bebop/modern sounds. Each "Lick of the Day" will focus on an individual guitar player style who contributed significantly to their era in jazz. The licks will also be over common chord progressions, so they can be reused often and in different situations.
The interactive lessons will take a more in-depth look at the previous week's material, plunging into more of the "why" than the "how". You will learn a bit of theory, as well as scale and arpeggio exercises to increase dexterity.
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James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot, Jim Croce, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris
Folk Guitar is the cornerstone of contemporary music. Migrating from Europe as the "common man's music", this genre soon flourished throughout the new world branching into rock, country and blues. During the '60s and '70s, a wave of folk guitarists exploded onto the music scene who have inspired many modern day musicians.
In this series, you'll learn the style and techniques used by each of these guitar legends by focusing on strumming and finger-picking chords, playing various chord progressions and even using acoustic solo techniques. The magic of the folk guitar sound comes together when you can apply all these techniques to form an orchestra of sound created by a single guitar. Many of these patterns are at the intermediate and above level, but most beginners will find some of these guitar patterns easy to learn and very inspiring to play as well!
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Become a better guitarist by learning how music theory works. This series of lessons will teach you the theory terms and formulas behind Intervals, Scales, Triads, Chords, and the Harmonized Major scale. See the theory and music formulas displayed on the Riff Interactive virtual fretboard to help you understand it better.
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The guitar instrumental genre is a significant musical development of the 20th Century. A remarkably eclectic genre, it borrows freely from a vast array of styles and sounds, such as swing, blues, country, jazz, classical, rock and ethnic music, and recombines their essences into a new form. Since its inception the guitar instrumental genre has been a potent force musically and an ideal showcase for a wide variety of players. In this series we'll look at this potpourri of musical styles in a special tribute to the Golden Age of the Guitar Instrumental.
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Explore learning guitar techniques and styles of Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins & many other grunge/alternative bands! These licks are fun for any beginners who are uninspired to learn songs like "Mary Had A Little Lamb," which are common in most beginning guitar method books. The interactive notation (play, loop, slow, virtual neck), video and looping jam tracks provide excellent tools for any beginner to learn cool licks!
22 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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This Guitar Essential series is specifically designed to teach you many of the different guitar techniques and music styles which will help you become a great all-around guitarist. These lessons are made for the beginner to intermediate level student.
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Guitar F/X Licks - Guitar Effects & Sound Processors
The story of guitar sound effects is as old as the history of the amplified guitar itself. With the advent of the electric guitar was born a tinkering mentality among its players, who strove to make the instrument sound like anything but an amplified acoustic box with dazzling and remarkable results. The history of modern electric guitar music is indeed defined and punctuated by the innovations of giants like Les Paul, The Ventures, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen, Andy Summers, The Edge and Joe Satriani, all masters of skillful and musical effects use. The guitar effects tradition has been maintained through numerous stylistic trends by countless players and is embodied in the output of current experimenters like Tom Morello.
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Vibrato, Sliding, Pull-offs, Hammer-ons & Hammer-on/Pull-offs
Great guitar techniques are an essential tool for any guitar player. A good vibrato, pull-off or hammer-on technique can bring to life any musical phrase or lick. Learning scales, chords, improvising and theory are very important, however incorporating these techniques will add magic to your playing. This series is design to improve the style of any beginner and intermediate player. If your guitar playing lacks the kind of style of any of your guitar heroes, this series is for you!
These lessons will focus on illustrating basic technique concepts and then expand by teaching you exercises and classic licks by popular guitarists that use these techniques.
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Harmonics, Finger-tapping, Rake & Sweep Picking, Muting & Tremolo Bar
Guitar techniques and tricks are an essential tool for any guitar player. Guitar heroes like Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, and other great guitarists have made a significant impact, launching the guitar sound into new dimensions. These techniques and tricks will help you sound faster, smoother and more interesting. This series is design to improve the style of the intermediate and advanced player, however helping the beginner explore new horizons and answering the often asked question "how is that sound made?".
These lessons will focus on illustrating basic technique and trick concepts and then expand by teaching you exercises and classic licks by popular guitarists that use these techniques.
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Eric Gales, Vernon Reid, Uli Jon Roth, Mike McCready, Robin Trower, Frank Marino (Mahogany Rush), Randy California (Spirit)
Hendrix made a profound impact on many guitarists in the later part of the 20th century, after his death in 1970 many of these players continued to wave the
Hendrix flag by morphing Jimi's techniques, licks and tricks into their own unique style. You will learn many licks, riffs and techniques in the style of
each of these guitarists that will greatly enhance your playing as well, giving you a deeper understanding of the Hendrix sound and helping you to develop your
own unique guitar style.
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In The Style of Randy Rhoads, Jake E Lee, & Zakk Wylde
Ozzy Osbourne has been responsible for launching the careers of some of the top guitarists in rock! Learn the shredding licks & runs of Randy Rhoads, Jake E Lee and Zakk Wylde. If your goal is to learn how to shred, this is the lesson series for you! The Riff Interactive tools allow students at any level to learn complex runs at their own speed.
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Ever since the first guitar was amplified, there have been countless guitarists that have stepped onto the path of playing harder, faster and louder. In the '80s, bands such as Metallica, Pantera, Ozzy, AC/DC, Van Halen and many more, ruled the metal scene with their decibel crunching, power chord riff assault and blazing solos. They had every young guitarist practicing for hours trying to emulate the axe wielding heroes of the day. Several players made a huge and defining impact on the world of metal guitar music throughout the '80s. Edward Van Halen was one of the biggest influences during that time along with Metallica's Kirk Hammet, the late Randy Rhoads from Ozzy Osbourne and Angus Young from AC/DC. All these players belong to an elite group of fretboard shredders that changed the world of electric guitar and rock 'n roll as we know it. During this month, you will explore, learn and recreate some of the most exciting licks, styles and techniques used by several of the world's best heavy metal guitarists that helped shape the '80s.
21 Licks, 3 Interactive Lessons
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'Tis the season to make music! Five holiday favorite tunes in five different fingerstyle arrangements. Classical, Folk, Country and Jazz styles are all covered. The arrangements vary in difficulty, from beginner to advanced, making this a guitar lesson that will keep giving all through the year. Songs: Deck the Halls, What Child Is This, O Come All Ye Faithful, Silent Night, Auld Lang Syne
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Improvising We've all done it in our every day lives as we adjust to life's unexpected predicaments. For the beginning guitarists, the entire process of improvising musically can be somewhat of a mystery. The ability to conjure up melodies, harmonies and rhythms out of seemingly thin air is the fine art form known as improvising.
The lessons in this series are designed for all guitarists who want to learn this wonderful art form, no matter what skill level, beginner, intermediate and advanced. Improvising techniques explored in this series include Theme and Variation, Question and Answer, Random Access, Compositional Flow, the use of Modes and Arpeggios and more!
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Grab your guitar and jam along! In this series of lessons you'll not only learn cool rhythm riffs and grooves to many popular blues styles and sounds, you'll also learn what are the best scales to use to improvise with, cool and exciting blues riffs, and complete solo examples. These lessons are great for students who are looking for new things to practice, new theory to apply, new ways to improvise using scales and modes, and perhaps best of all, something new to jam to. Even a beginning guitarists will find these lessons easy enough to learn how to jam along.
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Grab your guitar and jam along! Join in on these jam sessions, which are designed to teach you theory and technique, rhythm riffs, chords, scales, riffs, and solos, as you play along to the jam tracks. What is the "Funk Style"? The Funk style, born out of the 1960's, is a hybrid of jazz, soul, and rock 'n roll. It is mostly a rhythm riff style of guitar playing. The Funk guitar style is best played on electric guitars.
These lessons are great for the student who is looking for new things to practice, new theory to apply, new ways to improvise using modes, and perhaps best of all, something new to jam to.
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Turn your amp up all the way and jam! Learn chords, rhythm riffs, scales and modes, lead riffs, theory, and solos as you jam along with the jam tracks in a variety of rock styles.
These lessons are great for the student who is looking for new things to practice, new theory to apply, new ways to improvise using modes, and perhaps best of all, something new to jam to.
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Grab your guitar and jam along! Join in on these jam sessions, which are designed to teach you theory and technique, rhythm riffs, chords, scales, riffs, and solos, as you play along to the jam tracks. What is the "Smooth Jazz Style"? The smooth jazz style contains many different styles of music such as blues, rock, Latin, R&B, funk, hip-hop, and jazz. That's one of the things I like about this style, it's very flexible and open to interpretation. You can make what you want with it. The smooth jazz guitar style is very bluesy and can be played on acoustic or electric guitars.
These lessons are great for the student who is looking for new things to practice, new theory to apply, new ways to improvise using modes, and perhaps best of all, something new to jam to.
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Guitarist Don Mock is best known as a player, author and founding instructor of GIT (Musicians Institute of Technology) in Hollywood, California. Mock has over 25 years experience teaching and giving clinics / seminars and has authored several popular guitar books and REH videos.
ABOUT PRODUCT
In this Lick of the Day lesson series, Don will guide you through a vast array of standard and contemporary jazz licks and chord progressions. This series is designed to help the rock and blues guitarist make the "connection" to jazz guitar, thus expanding your repertoire and understanding of music theory. You can visualize and control advanced licks/chord progressions which you can see displayed on the virtual fretboard. The Riff Interactive tools allow you to loop and slow within pitch complex licks down to your skill level. It has never been so easy to learn jazz guitar, it's like having a GIT teacher in your own home!
23 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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Jazz is like a fancy version of the Blues. If you like the Blues style of music you'll probably like Jazz. It's fun to play on acoustic or electric guitars. In these lessons you'll be learning lots of chords and scales and how they can work together, as well as typical chord progressions found in Jazz. If you can make a bar chord, then you're half way there. You'll also learn Jazz style riffs, and how to improvise over common chord progressions found in the Jazz style while jamming to Jazz style looping jam tracks.
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You will learn theory, including scales and arpeggios.
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In this lesson series you'll learn how to play like the incomparable guitar legend, Jeff Beck. Jeff has a very unique technique and sound that is instantly recognizable. Jeff Beck came to the attention of the guitar world after replacing Eric Clapton in the "Yardbirds". After this period he went on to form the "Jeff Beck Group" with Rod Stewart, and then the next incarnation of the band featuring an all instrumental line-up. This era produced some significant milestone fusion records like "Blow by Blow", "Wired" and "Beck-ola". This lesson series will cover many of Jeff's techniques and signature licks.
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Jimmy Page's blues-rock guitar sound was the driving force behind one of the greatest rock bands ever, Led Zeppelin. Jimmy was heavily influenced by all the great blues players (Muddy Waters, Albert King, Elmore James, etc), morphing classic blues with his own dynamic rock licks. This signature sound has earned him the status of being a true guitar legend among the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Jeff Beck! In this series you'll learn how to rock out standard blues licks, play outside of common blues patterns and explore using the minor blues, among many other guitar secrets.
Many of these patterns are at the intermediate and above level, but most beginners will find some of these guitar patterns easy to learn and very inspiring to play as well!
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Designed for beginning to intermediate guitarists, this 5 part series walks you through the fundamentals of lead guitar in Melodic Rock, Metal, Blues, Jazz-Rock and Jazz styles. You'll learn a backing riff in each style, then workout theory, scales and licks on each jam track to compose your own solos and improvisations.
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"Lenny" by Stevie Ray Vaughan
Courtesy of Hal Leonard- Excerpted
from Power Studies 3
"Lenny" is a signature Stevie Ray Vaughan tune
and reinstates the viability of the guitar instrumental in the 1980s and its
infusion into modern blues and rock genres. A moody ballad from Vaughan
classic 1983 debut album Texas Flood, the composition was named after
his wife at the time, and presented the flamboyant Texas bluesman in a
dramatically different setting.
"Lenny" is set in a slow floating tempo, contains a
haunting chord-melody head, and is a simultaneous tribute to several of his
influences: Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield and Wes Montgomery. The intro and
head are clearly jazz-inflected. The use of Emaj13 and A6 in the main chord
figure takes the normal I to IV change into more extended harmonic
territory.
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Over the course of this lesson series you will learn some interesting facts, licks, and tricks that make Mark Knopfler one of the most popular guitar players today. Mark is best known as the guitarist/front man for the band Dire Straits, however this series also covers some of his solo work and projects with other artists. These lessons highlight his unique style of playing with his fingers, which allows him to cover a lot of area or musical styles. The series follows that same pattern giving you a wide spectrum of styles to study such as country and rock. Also, you will learn how to get some of the unique tones that make up Mark's signature sound.
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This Lick of the Day series features some of the hottest guitar styles from progressive rock players like Frank Gambale, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John McLaughlin, Steve Morse, among others. These players display an amazing ability to perform fretboard acrobatics while using their mastery of blending rock, blues, country, jazz and classical within a melodic and dynamic context.
Lyle Ronglien will help demystify the mastery of these techniques by illustrating how to use simple pentatonic scales and blues licks along with other exotic scales such as the Lydian, Phrygian Dominant, Diminished and Whole Tone scales. You, the student will be able to analyze these advanced guitar techniques and provided the ability to slow each lick down to your skill level by using the Riff Interactive tools. The goal of this series is to empower students at any level to develop their own unique progressive rock guitar style.
22 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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Psychedelic 60's with guitar legend Jerry Miller of Moby Grape fame. Jerry blends his rock, blues & jazz influences to create a very unique guitar style. Jerry played the historic Monterey Pop Festival w/Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead among other rock legends and has influenced guitarists like Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin). Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young has called Jerry "the best damn guitar player I've ever heard!"
This series is like having Jerry as you personal guitar coach, the disc includes licks & rhythms Jerry Miller and Jerry Garcia use to jam at the Fillmore at sound check, the first licks ever played at the Monterey Pop Festival, and much more! You'll learn rock, blues, and jazz that will inspire you to play! Learn from a true guitar legend!
21 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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Out of the thousands of great rock guitar players over the last 50+ years, only a few attain the status of being a rock legend. To become a rock legend, a guitarist must have contributed a significant impact on rock music and a powerful influence on other guitarists above and beyond all others. In this series you'll learn some of the most significant stylistic techniques, riffs and tones of these true rock legends.
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Rockabilly Legends covers the styles of '50s guitar legends Duane Eddy (recorded the Peter Gunn theme), Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps (w/Chris Gallup) on up to modern rockabilly guitarist Brian Setzer (Stray Cats). Most of the licks and rhythms are simple, basic and very fun to play! Many guitarists learning to play in the '50s, '60s & '70s, which includes the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, & Jimmy Page, were all influenced by the early legends. This lesson series is excellent for any guitarist who is at the beginning level and fun for advanced players as well interested in learning this style!
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Carlos Santana has one of the most distinctive guitar sounds in modern music. His ability to combine rock, Latin and blues has earned this Grammy award winning guitarist the title of a true music legend and inspiring legions of guitar players. This lesson series will help you achieve the Santana sound by illustrating how to utilize the Dorian and pentatonic scale patterns while jamming over Latin/Rock beats. These licks and rhythms are fun to play and you'll notice immediate results in your playing that you too can sound like Santana!
The magic of this sounds comes together when you can apply these techniques together to form your own Latin/rock sound. Many of these patterns are at the intermediate and above level, but most beginners will find some of these guitar patterns easy to learn and very inspiring to play as well!
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These two virtuosos have changed the way modern rock guitar is played. They have achieved rock guitar monster status by lots of dedication, study, and practice. Now you too can learn some unique riffs that define the styles of both of these great artists.
In this series designed for the intermediate to advanced student, you'll be learning theory, technique, style, scales, riffs and solos, and more as you play along to jam tracks in the Satriani/Vai style.
2nd Edition!
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Learn how to get that cool technique known as Slap Bass. These lessons are designed for the beginner bass student who wants to learn how to slap the strings with their thumb and pop the strings with their finger. Basic exercises and riffs shown with Riff Interactive notation and close up video clips help any beginner learn this technique.
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Add some spice to your blues style with these simple step-by-step instructions showing you that learning to play slide guitar is easier than you might think. In this group of lessons you'll learn how to play chords, riffs and even simple solos using a slide. All of these lessons in this series are in standard tuning making it easy for any beginner to quickly learn. All you need is a slide and a guitar, either acoustic or electric.
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No other sound defines the blues like the use of open tunings and a slide. Some of the best blues guitar legends like Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson used the open tunings with a slide.
In this series you'll learn how easy it is to change your tuning to open G, D, and C tunings enabling you play chords and riffs all the way across the neck without using your fingers. You'll also learn simple, yet soulful sounding blues solos in each lesson then get the chance to test your new abilities as you play along to the looping jam tracks. Develop your own blues mojo today with each new riff you learn in these lessons!
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Learn how to rock and play the style of Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield. Learn shred licks, blazing runs, percussive pounding rhythms, and techniques used by the band that rocked the world! This lesson series is a must for any guitar playing fan of Metallica.
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In the Style of Allman Brothers, Charlie Daniels, Marshall Tucker Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, 38 Special & Atlanta Rhythm Section
This unique blend of rock exploded onto the airwaves in the early 1970s. This infectious sound combined the styles of rock, country, soul, blues, and jazz into one expressive and intelligent language. This era of music launched the careers of guitarists like Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Charlie Daniels, Toy Caldwell, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins, Ed King, Steve Gains, Hughie Thomasson, Bobby Ingram, Russ Maxwell, Rickey Medlocke, Jeff Carlisi, Barry Bailey, and J.R. Cobb. Many of these guitarists have inspired many modern day musicians and will inspire you as well.
In this series you'll learn the style and techniques used by each of these guitar legends by focusing on soloing, playing various chord progressions and playing in the southern rock style.
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Shred, burn, rip, and fly are just a few words used to describe the art of playing fast on the guitar. Assembled in this series are many of the essential exercises, techniques and licks I have used to develop my own speed. Exercises covered in this series are warm-ups, right hand picking, left hand hammer-ons, and left hand pull-offs.
Being able to play fast sure is a lot a fun! It takes a lot of discipline, dedication and practice. Sometimes it's not all that much fun doing drills and hours of repetition, but it will pay off in the long run. Remember, being able to play fast doesn't happen overnight! Even though a simple melody may be better than a fast riff, it's still fun to play fast!
22 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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If you're into Stevie Ray Vaughan, this series is for you! Learn secrets to playing classic Stevie licks, blues progressions, improvising over chord changes and many other essential techniques used by this guitar legend.
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This series was designed for the beginning guitarist who wants to learn picking patterns and strumming patterns. Each lesson is packed with enough content to keep you busy for weeks if not months of study. These lesson archives come complete with CD quality jam tracks and video clips that will enhance your private study.
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Dick Dale, The Ventures, and The Sufaris
Break out your guitar and surf board and get ready to rock! Learn how to play simple, but melodic licks of the Ventures and The Surfaris on up to the single string double picking licks of surf guitar legend Dick Dale who often uses exotic scales. These lessons are fun to play and cover a wide range of skill levels, the Dick Dale double picking exercise are given at 3 speed levels to help you gradually develop your picking skills. Many of these licks are at the intermediate level, but most beginners will find some of these guitar licks easy to learn and very inspiring to play as well!
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Guitarists like Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen all changed the way we thought about rock guitar. Add another to the list, David Evans (The Edge) from the band U2. His style, a combination of hard driving rhythms, harmonics, echo repeats, droning notes and other effects, had a major impact throughout the mid-'80s and into the new millennium.
This series, designed for beginning and intermediate guitarists both electric and acoustic, will not only teach you many of the stylistic techniques of The Edge, but will also inspire you as you play along to CD quality jam tracks, watch video clip examples and much more.
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It always fun to learn new tricks and techniques on the guitar! The art and technique of two hand tapping is fun and not too difficult to learn. Learn beginner through advanced tapping riffs using Riff Interactive notation as well as watching each riff demonstrated in video clips. Two hand tapping is used in many different styles. Learn it today and add it to your own style!
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Music theory is a mystery to many guitarist, but a very essential fundamental to understanding the fretboard, learning how to play various styles, figuring out songs on your own, and how to write your own music. Without this knowledge the musician is left grasping in the dark wondering how to get the sound they hear in their head or hear played by their favorite artist. This lesson series helps demystify these concepts and formulas by breaking them down into pieces of the puzzle where you can visualize how they all fit together. Not only does this series lay out the formulas like in a theory book, but you are also able to see and hear basic and advanced concepts displayed on the virtual guitar neck, this opens up a whole new dimension for learning! This lesson series will be an excellent reference that you will refer to often.
CONCEPTS & FORMULAS
* How scales break down into triads, arpeggios & chords * Formulas for Major (Maj, Maj7, Maj9, etc.), Dominate (7th, 9th, etc), Minor (Min, Min7, Min9, etc), Diminished * How Chords/Arpeggios change Keys and relate to the Circle of 5ths * How Chords/Arpeggios relate to Modes * How Modes are used to build Chord Progressions * Using various Chord Progressions * And more!
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There have been many books written trying to explain the Modes of the major scale. Still the formulas, concepts and applications of the Modes can be a mystery to many guitarists. In these lessons you will learn the modes of the harmonized major scale and how to use them in many musical situations ranging from rock, blues, funk and jazz. Unlike using common method books, hearing and seeing the modes played on the virtual guitar neck makes all the difference in helping any student understand these important musical concepts.
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Vintage Guitar Magazine "Fretprints" archives created by Wolf Marshall and using Riff Interactive technology to enhance their online lessons.
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Wolf Marshall brings in some of his celebrity friends for these live guitar lessons.
Jimmy Bruno
Jazz guitar virtuoso who has played with the Buddy Rich band and others.
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Frank Gambale
Frank Gambale is known for his sweep picking and powerful jazz rock melodies. Frank has played with Chick Corea, who won a Grammy together & winner of several Guitar Player magazine Reader Poll awards.
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Hank Garland
Guitarist for Elvis, Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams Sr, Patsy Cline and many others.
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Albert Lee
5x winner of "Best Country Guitarist". Played with Clapton, Jimmy Page and many others.
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Steve Lukather
Guitarist with Toto, Clapton with over 700 top recording sessions under his belt.
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