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Electric guitar riffs

10 Electric Guitar Riffs to Play With Your Distortion On

If you want to play or create electric guitar riffs, effects such as distortion, overdrive, and fuzz offer you a lot of options you don’t have on the acoustic guitar. In this lesson, I won’t get into the differences between these effects, but will just advise you that the following electric guitar riffs are likely […]

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5 Things You Can Do to Make Your Power Chord Guitar Riffs More Interesting

Have you just started writing your first power chord guitar riffs? Power chords are cool, aren’t they? And they seem to fit in everywhere. Well, there’s a reason for that, something I explain in detail in this lesson on power chord theory. The short answer to why power chords fit in easily more than major

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How to Use Palm Muting to Write Great Electric Guitar Riffs

If string bending and vibrato are the techniques the lead guitar player can’t get enough of, palm muting technique is the one rhythm guitar players cannot do without. For good reason. As we’ll explore below, palm muting technique gives a different sound to the same note/chord you’re strumming, thus it gives you an infinite amount

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17 Guitar Tips For Intermediate Students

If you’re an advancing beginner or an intermediate guitar player, congratulations! You’ve survived the hardest stage of all—being a complete beginner on guitar! Many people think the beginner stage of guitar playing is the easiest because the things they’re learning are actually easier compared to what intermediate and advanced guitar players are doing. But the

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You Don’t Need to Play Guitar Fast To Improvise Good Solos

Many a time I have students who have the ability to at least start to improvise guitar solos, good solos if they commit to practicing the art of improvisation for a while, but they’re afraid that it’s not within their reach because they think they can’t play fast guitar, that they can’t “shred”, and that

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