A classic Chicago blues-style shuffle. Use your first finger on the 2nd fret and add your third or fourth finger on the higher notes. Muddy Waters’ riffs were often played around the open E shape but ...

Jon demonstrates this easy blues turnaround lick as follows; 10th fret of the 5th string with 2nd finger and 9th fret of the 3rd string with first finger played simultaneously using the hybrid picking ...

Guitar skills: Rakes can be picked in either direction, down or up. The idea is to pick the muted strings and then sound only the fretted note at the end of the rake. The mute is achieved by ...

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This article was created by StackCommerce. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page. Buying a guitar is the easy part. Actually learning to play it ...