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Essential Barre Chords Every Guitar Player Should Know

a guitar player’s repertoire and really expand your ability to navigate the fretboard beyond open chord playing. That said, they can be a bit of a pain to get down as they require a good bit of hand strength and dexterity to play well.

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Sus Chords on Guitar

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Triplets on Guitar: How to Play Them and Exercises to Build Your Technique

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Scale Application: The Beatles – Let It Be – Guitar Solo (Tab & Scale Diagrams)

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Using Arpeggios to Visualize the Guitar Fretboard

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Little Wing Intro (Jimi Hendrix) – Chord Progression and Tab

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Scales

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Extended Pentatonic Scale: Break Out of the Pentatonic Box

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Learn the guitar fretboard by adapting licks to each scale position

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3 Notes Per String Major Scale Patterns

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Chords

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Sus Chords on Guitar

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Augmented Triads on Guitar

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Guitar Double Stops: What they are and how to play them

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Exercises

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Triplets on Guitar: How to Play Them and Exercises to Build Your Technique

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Essential Hammer-On and Pull-Off Exercises for Guitar

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Alternate Picking Exercises for Clean, Accurate Right Hand Technique

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10 Easy Guitar Riffs for Beginners

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Scale Application: The Beatles – Let It Be – Guitar Solo (Tab & Scale Diagrams)

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52 Easy Guitar Songs for Beginners

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