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How To Make The Blues Scale Your Own
When you start out playing blues guitar one of the most challenging things is to make the blues scale actually sound bluesy. It's one of those scales that require an extra effort in order to get some rewarding sounds out of it.You could learn a bunch of licks and try...

Improvising With Knowledge: Lesson 6
I am Greg Studley, and this is Lesson 6 of Improvising With Knowledge on Ultimate Guitar. These lessons are designed to get you accustomed to yet another pentatonic scale shape, which can be used as a major pentatonic scale or minor pentatonic scale when improvising.Here's what we've covered in the...

Sweep Picking Lesson: Starting From The Inside
I'll keep this as short as possible. The motivation for this video is the fact that most lessons out there require you to perform sweeps in downward/upward motions. That means, you start either by picking the lower strings or the higher strings. Seldom never are you required to start from...

Learn A Song : Iron Maiden - 'Aces High' Guitar Solo Lesson With Chris Zoupa
Standard tuning: E A D G B ELevel: IntermediateI've always loved this song. I just think the chorus is great. It's the kind of chorus you sing really loudly whilst quite intoxicated and embarrass your girlfriend in front of her friends and family.The solo in this song starts in "A"...

Make It Musical: Etude Instead Of Just Practicing Exercises
Practicing can be a lot less tedious when you play music instead of many exercises in a row. If you are having trouble with a certain technique, or want to explore what sort of musical capabilities the technique in question offers, you could try to come up with a little...

Should You Be Using Sharps Or Flats When Transcribing Tabs And Chords?
We will create a chord chart for each key in the major scale. This will show you each chord in a key and when to use sharps and when to use flats when you are transcribing music into tabs and chord sheets.Creating a chord chart in the major (Ionian) scaleTake...