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Blue Noize - blues guitar solo competition, win a PRS Guitar!

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Published Aug. 1, 2010 at 2:59 p.m.

Today I am launching a very exciting competition, the follow up to the Guitar Noize Anti-Shred solo contest called “Blue Noize”. This contest is a blues solo competition as I explain in the video above and all styles of blues are going to be accepted, in the end the judges will choose what they believe to be the best solos. Guitar Noize’s Paul and myself Jon will whittle down the entries to a top 20 and then hand them over to the international panel of judges, Suhr Artists Andy Wood (Andy

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Blues Guitar Lesson: How to Play Blues Guitar Like Eric Clapton.

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Published June 11, 2010 at 4:00 a.m.

Does playing the guitar like Slowhand himself sound appealing to you? Or maybe you’ve been trying to recreate those Cream-era Clapton solos and just can’t seem to pull them off. Well In today’s blues guitar lesson, I’m going to show you how to play blues guitar like Eric Clapton by utilizing the minor pentatonic scale. [ ... ] ...

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Paul Gilbert Jam Tracks

Published April 5, 2010 at 9:22 p.m.

JamTrackCentral.com has recently added two jam tracks with Paul Gilbert playing over them. They have even included tab for Gilbert’s solos for the tracks. In addition to Gilbert’s tracks, they will soon be adding some country backing tracks to their already excellent rock and blues backing tracks ...

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Are You Telling a Story With Your Blues Guitar Solos?

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Published April 5, 2010 at 11:51 a.m.

This is a very simple lesson, but one of the hardest to put into use ... It is probably what separates the real bluesmen from the wankers.For example, when you are having a conversation with someone and you would like to illustrate your point with a story, do you immediately give away the ending right [ ... ] ...

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Review: Dunlop Cry Baby Kirk Hammett Signature Wah

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Published Dec. 13, 2009 at 5:02 p.m.

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For years if anyone mentioned a Wah pedal the first name cited as the biggest user of the effect was Jimi Hendrix, even though you struggle to find Hendrix tracks that use Wah, yes Voodoo Child (Slight Return) is probably one of the most famous Wah tracks in history and so it should be but really Jimi used the Rotovibe more than a Wah. So you can probably see where I am going with this, if you think of famous Wah users over the past 20 years one name springs to my mind immediately and that is

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Blues Backing Tracks: They’re all the same, right?

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Published Nov. 17, 2009 at 3:19 p.m.

Many guitarists when practicing will find it more beneficial to practice to some kind of a metronome or backing track ... There are a lot of different blues backing tracks you can find on the web today, and some of them are even free ... They make practicing blues guitar licks and solos way more [ ... ] ...

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Rewiew: Mad Professor Sweet Honey Overdrive

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Published Aug. 24, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.

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If you have any kind of interest at all in Effects Pedals you will have heard of Mad Professor from Finland. You will have seen their name crop up on Guitar Noize a couple of times already this year as I featured their 101 Watt MP101 amp head and their new Old School 21 (MP21). Well Mad Professor sent me their new ultra cool touch sensitive low gain pedal the “Sweet Honey Overdrive” which is designed to overdrive distorted amplifiers and give dynamically controlled light overdrive on clean

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Robben Ford - Soul On Ten

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Published Aug. 20, 2009 at 5:01 p.m.

Robben Ford is such an understated guitar player, he has been around for years and had 5 grammy nominations. Whenever you look at lessons in guitar mags they always seem to mention the Robben Ford style of blues-jazz. He has released over 20 albums and has played and recorded with the likes of Jaco Pastorius and Larry Carlton oh and did I mention he toured with Miles Davis? If you like blues, funk or just great guitar playing read on ... August 11th saw the release of the latest Live album on

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Guest Review: Brad Paisley - Play

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Published June 25, 2009 at 6:14 p.m.

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Today’s post comes from guest reviewer, my big brother James. When James isn’t playing guitar or watching Cricket he also writes Science Fiction and runs a Sci-Fi blog Big Dumb Object ... Brad Paisley is not well known in the UK. In the US I gather he’s massive. Many people will know him from his jokey songs, such as Online (with a video featuring William Shatner). However listen beyond the lyrics and you’ll hear some great guitar playing. Indeed, he’s been on the cover of Guitar

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The Robben Ford Clinic: The Art of Blues Solos DVD

Published March 19, 2009 at 9:17 p.m.

Robben Ford recently released a companion DVD to his Art of Blues Rhythm DVD. The new DVD is called The Art of Blues Solos.Although I haven’t seen either DVD yet, I’ve heard a lot of good things about the Art of Blues Rhythm DVD. I’m also a fan of Ford’s phrasing, so I’m looking forward [ ... ] ...

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