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How to Play the Harmonic Minor Scale on Guitar
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How to Play the A Minor Pentatonic Scale on Guitar
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How to Play the E Minor Guitar Scale
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Fender Play Live: A Blues Playlist
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2019 Roundup: The 10 Most Practiced Songs in Fender Play
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What is the Difference Between Major and Minor Chords?
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Understanding Time Signatures
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How to Play the Cm7 Chord on Guitar
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How to Play a Dm7 Chord on Guitar
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How to Play a G7 Chord on Guitar
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How to Play the D Minor Guitar Chord
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How to Play an Asus2 Guitar Chord
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How to Play the E7 Chord on Guitar
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How to Play a D7 Guitar Chord
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How to Play a C Minor Chord on Guitar
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Learn How to Play the Am7 Guitar Chord
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Learn to Play the C Chord on Guitar
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How to Play an E Minor Chord on Guitar
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How to Play an A7 Chord on Guitar
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How to Play a G Minor Chord on Guitar
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How to Play the A Minor Chord
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What Are the Differences Between B9 and B7(9) Chords?
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How to Read Tabs
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4 Guitar Chords That Sound Good Together
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How to Play the B Chord on Guitar
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How to Play the B Flat Chord on Guitar
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How to Play the B Minor Chord on Guitar
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Electric Guitar 101
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How to Play Some Notes on Your Guitar
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2018 Roundup: The 10 Most Popular Songs in Fender Play
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10 Easy Songs to Learn on Bass
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How I Play: Together Pangea's William Keegan on Musical Motivations
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New Research Shows How Playing Music Can Improve Your Life
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How I Play: Carly & Martina Discuss Musical Empowerment and Songwriting
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Learn How to Play ZZ Top's 'La Grange' on Guitar
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The 11 Essential Tools for Any Guitarist
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3 Common Beginner Mistakes
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Florentine vs. Venetian Cutaways: Which is Which?
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Timbre: How to Change Your Tone with Your Picking Hand
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10 Easy Songs to Learn on the Ukulele
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7 Reasons You Should Play the Ukulele
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Amaj or Amin? A Guide to Translating Chord Symbols.
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Top 40 Easiest Songs to Learn on Guitar
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10 Easy Folk Songs to Learn on Guitar
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The 5 People You Need on Your Guitar Team
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10 Easy Love Songs to Learn on Guitar
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5 Reasons Playing Guitar is Good for the Mind and Body
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17 Famous Blues Songs To Learn on Guitar
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Acoustic or Electric Guitar: Which One Is Best for You?
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10 Easy Songs to Learn on the Electric Guitar
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10 Easy Pop Songs to Learn on Guitar
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8 Easy Songs on Guitar with 3 Chords or Less
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10 Easy Songs to Learn on Acoustic Guitar
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5 People Who Should Learn to Play Guitar
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How Fender's No-Tie Ukulele Bridge Makes Re-Stringing a Breeze
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5 Great Amps for the Beginning Guitarist
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Why Instrument Cables and Speaker Cables Aren’t Interchangeable
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Will Stickers Affect the Tone of an Acoustic? (And How to Remove Them)
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A Beginner's Guide to Guitar Effects
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Precision Bass or Jazz Bass: Which Is Right for You?
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4 Ways to Elevate Your Practice With the Mustang GT
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Want to Play the Guitar? Here Are Your First Steps.
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The Capo: 6 Things You Need to Know
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7 Electric Guitars for the Beginner
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Jaguar Controls Past and Present: What You Need to Know
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Effects Guide: Compression Decompressed
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6 Beginner Basses to Kick Off Your Collection
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Asked/Answered: Do Different Woods Affect Your Electric Guitar Tone?
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Inside the Song: There's No 'Smoke On the Water' Without Fire
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Effects Guide: Get to Know Tremolo
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The 6 Best Beginner Acoustic Guitars
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How to Read a Chord Chart
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Effects Guide: What is Reverb?
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Pick Your Pick: A Plectrum Primer
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Why Do Guitar Strings Break?
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Should You Use a Metronome to Practice?
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The Muse Speaks: Do Songs Live Inside Your Guitar?
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Why You Should Consider Using a DI Box
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How a Treble-Bleed Circuit Can Affect Your Tone
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What Are Alnico Pickups?
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Tweed, Tolex, Two-Tone: A Guide to Amp Coverings
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Get Rolling: 5 Dos and Don'ts for Transporting Your Amp
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The Vintage Styling of the Paramount Series
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How the S-1 Switch Gives You More Tonal Options
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The Acoustic Body Shapes You Should Know
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So, You Just Inherited a Guitar. Now What?
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Mass Effects: How to Compose an Effective Effects Chain
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Understanding Headroom in Guitar Amps
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Fixing a Loose Instrument Jack
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PCB or Hand-Wired: Which is Right for You?
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The Indisputable Laws of Practice
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Decoding Standard Pickup Arrangements
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How Micro-Tilt Majorly Affects Your Action
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Play Dirty: An Overview of Overdrive, Distortion and Fuzz
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Cleaning Pots and Switches
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Asked and Answered: Do I Need a Humidifier for My Acoustic Guitar?
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Tube Prelude: Warm Up to the Standby Switch
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Small Wonder: How the Nut is Critical to Your Tone
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What’s the Difference Between Gain and Volume?
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Buzz Off: How to Deal With Fret Buzz
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Double Duty: Learning How to Sing and Play
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What is Fret Sprout?
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Be in the Moment: The Presence Control Explained
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What Are Tuning Pegs and Why Do You Need Them?
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Pitch Control: A Tremolo Primer
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Make Yourself Heard With 5 Fender Audio Solutions
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Why You Should Use In-Ear Monitors
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The 3 Neck Attachment Methods You Should Know
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Bass Strings 101
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Everything You Need to Know After Getting a New Guitar
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Bass Debate: Pick vs. Fingers
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How to Hold a Guitar Pick
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How to Tune Harmonically (Even the B String)
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What Is a Setup and Why Is It so Crucial?
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Narrow Tall? Medium Jumbo? Fret Sizes Explained
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How to Tune a Ukulele
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Asked/Answered: Is It OK to Use My Thumb to Mute Low Strings?
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What Is a String Tree?
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Peel Off Pickguard Film Without Damaging Your Guitar
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How to Buy an Electric Guitar
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Great Gifts for Beginners
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5 Tips to Fight Finger Pain
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Why Do Guitars Go Out of Tune?
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Gifts for the Future Folk Hero
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Asked/Answered: Are Short-Scale Guitars Best for Players with Small Hands?
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Asked/Answered: Does Your Pick Influence How Fast You Can Play?
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Tubes vs. Solid-State: What's the Best Amp for You?
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Coil Tapping vs. Coil Splitting: The Tone Option Hidden in Your Pickups
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Asked/Answered: What Do the Controls On the Jaguar HH Really Do?
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What Is a Humbucker and How Does It 'Buck' the Hum?
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What Is a Chord?
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What's a Pickup Pole? And Why Is It so Important?
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5 Tips for Cleaning Your Guitar
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How to Keep Your Neck in Perfect Alignment
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Intonation 101
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Amp Trouble? Try These 9 Simple Solutions First
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Pitch or Volume? The Difference Between Tremolo and Vibrato
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Gear Genealogy: How to Date Your Guitar
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How 7 Different Woods Affect Your Acoustic Sound
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Chicken, Tremolo, Sweep. Pick Your Picking Style.
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Standard Tuning: How EADGBE Came to Be
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Rome and Jimi Hendrix Weren't Built in a Day
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The Perfect Fit: What Acoustic Body Shape Is Right For You?
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Is a Short-Scale Bass Right for You?
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5 Reasons To Play Acoustic Guitar
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What Is a Capo?
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Nice Purfling: The Acoustic Vocabulary You Need to Know
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No Broken Necks: 4 Guitar Care Do's and Don'ts
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5 Times to Tune Your Guitar You Might Miss
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Need a Tune? Watch How It's Done
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Queens of the Stone Age Guitarist Shows His Flair
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Inputs and Outputs: So Much Confusion
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Finishing School: The Science and Style of Fender Finishes
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C-V-U? Which Neck Shape Is for You?
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5 Quotes of Guitar Wisdom
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5 New Fender Amps to Try
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This Guitar + That Amp = Epic Tone
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Ash vs. Alder: What's the Difference?
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Want That 'Layla' Sound?
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3 All-New Acoustics, 1 Big Sound
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Punk Chords. All Power. See How.
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Play Bass Like a Ramone
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Why Nile Rogers Almost Rage Quit
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The Most Talked-About American Elite Feature
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Master Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
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