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I'm Joanna, nice to meet you. I like to play the guitar, I do play the guitar. Play for more than 20 years. I like to share my thoughts about the world of the Guitar, I do write for GuitarHertz.

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Damp Unused Strings

Incorporate Chromatic Notes into Melodies and Licks

Use Open Strings as Pedal Tones

Use the Dorian Mode Over a Minor Seven Chord

Use a Slide with Open Tunings

Use Chord Tones Over Changes

Use a Compressor to Sustain Chords

Put a Percussive “Slap” on Beats Two and Four

Use a Capo

Create Riffs Using Fourth Intervals

Play 16th-Note Funk With and Without “Scratches”

Use Open-Voiced Triads

Use Rootless Voicings

Use Chord Inversions

Practice with a Drummer

Practice with the Click on Beats Two and Four

Use Economy Picking for Speed

Play Fingerstyle

Try Three-Notes-Per-String Scale Fingerings

Experiment with Hybrid Picking

Use Your Whammy Bar

Use Alternate-Picking Arpeggios

Slip and Slide

Play String-Skipping Seventh-Chord Arpeggios

Play String-Skipping Triad Arpeggios

Harmonize the Major Scale in Seventh Chords

Harmonize the Major Scale in Triads

Warm Up

Learn to Sing

Take a Break