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A cool lesson for how to play that La Grange riff by ZZ Top and others. This style of playing you can hear from other artists too – Canned Heat, Van Halen, and many more.

Robert Renman shows you how to use a wah pedal to play some really cool Jimi Hendrix style riffs.

A POD HD500 was used in this video, but you can use any wah pedal.

A cool Billy Gibbons style lick, played by Robert from Dolphinstreet. This type of slide up the fretboard is an awesome guitar technique to learn. It works really great when playing blues guitar.

Here is a cool lick in the style of Rory Gallagher. Listen to the tune Laundromat, and you’ll hear where the inspiration for this lesson came from.

There are many ways of playing blues rhythm guitar. Beginners usually learn the “shuffle”, playing a guitar rhythm over just 2 strings.

In this lesson, you will learn how to play blues guitar rhythm with whole chords, as well as keeping the rhythm going with muting techniques and strumming.

The V-Pick Colossal is a fat one. It is a good pick to use for practicing your picking technique.

Here is a review of the V-Pick Colossal.

Here is an exercise for how to play a country lick, using only alternate picking technique. Note the fingering – you move your left hand according to this demonstration, or else it will be hard to play each note distinctly.

Country guitar players often using chicken picking technique and hammer-ons or pull-offs, but this alternate picking lick is a great sounding lick in itself, as well as a great alternate picking exercise.

Here’s a great review of the Line 6 POD HD300. The guitar used was a Hell Zerodot from http://www.hellguitars.com and the HD300 was plugged into a Marshall JVM410H, and then into a 2×12 cab with Eminence Wizards speakers.

The HD300 works of course great into a computer or a P.A. as well. However, if you want to use it with an amp, as a pedalboard, it works great for this.

Here is a great lesson that covers one lick in the style of the many very cool licks from the song The Wind Cries Mary, by Jimi Hendrix. Jimi had such an fantastic melodic ability, and his chording style was ground breaking, big time. Learn from Hendrix! He set the bar for the rest of us.

Robert Renman demonstrates how to play nice Hendrix lick, from the song The Wind Cries Mary, by Jimi Hendrix.

Take your time to master this technique. It becomes very useful as you progress as a guitar player.