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Slide guitar, blues guitar, and beginner guitar lessons.
1.) Derek Trucks Slide Guitar Lesson
2.) Learning Guitar Now video Podcast 13. Blues DVD preview.
3.) The #1 technique to improve your blues guitar licks.
4.) My top 5 Blues Guitar players.
5.) Dickey Betts, a Blues Guitar legend that was kicked out of his own band.
6.) Learning Guitar Now Video Podcast 11: Play blues guitar like BB King.
7.) Learning Guitar Now Video Podcast 10: Learning how to use the blues scale.
8.) 5 Reasons you MUST learn the Blues Scale.
9.) A Blues Guitar lesson on Albert Collins, an electric blues guitar master.
10.) Blues Guitar Lessons Podcast: Learn how to play some D Blues Guitar Licks
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A guitar is a musical instrument characterized by its visually dominant body and neck. Guitar strings are strung parallel to the neck, whose surface is covered by the fingerboard (fretboard). By depressing a string against the fingerboard, the effective length of a string can be altered, which in turn changes the frequency at which the string will vibrate when plucked. Guitarists typically use one hand to pluck the strings and the other to depress the strings against the fingerboard. The strings may be plucked using either fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick), thus creating the sound of notes or chords. The strings of a guitar produce little sound by themselves. Instead, their vibration must be amplified to audibly useful levels. In general, this amplication is achieved either mechanically or electronically, with the result being that there are two main categories of guitar: acoustic (mechanical amplification) and electric (electronic amplification).




