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A nice overview of how to using notes outside the blues scale to add some extra color. Get full tabs at http://betweenthelicks.com/blues-guitar/soloing-with-target-notes See you in the forums at betweenthelicks.com

Learn a few important tips to polish and further your rock guitar abilities. Check out the full article at http://betweenthelicks.com/rock-guitar/five-rock-solo-tips Catch you in the forums!

Learn a couple new blues shuffles that focus on the 6th and 7th chords. http://betweenthelicks.com/blues-guitar/expanded-blues-shuffles http://betweenthelicks.com/

How to put together a few licks that feature classic turnarounds. Full tabs at the link below. http://betweenthelicks.com/blues-guitar/custom-blues-licks-part-two-turnarounds

The first in a many part series that highlights quite a few blues licks. Full tabs at the website.

Learn how to play and use those seventh chords. Check out the website for tabs and jam tracks. http://betweenthelicks.com/general/seventh-chords http://betweenthelicks.com/jam-corner/view-all

A quick breakdown of Stevie Ray Vaughan's playing in Texas Flood. Check out the website for the full tabs and jam tracks. http://betweenthelicks.com/blues-guitar/playing-texas-flood-intro-and-improv-with-jam-track http://betweenthelicks.com/jam-corner/view-all

How to use sustained chords to color your playing of otherwise normal and bland chords. Get the tab and chord diagrams here: http://betweenthelicks.com/general/colorful-sus-chords

Learn how to play 84 different modes from one movable pattern, The Pattern To Rule Them All (or major scale). Definitely check out the site for pattern diagram, its simple, really! http://betweenthelicks.com/jazz-theory/one-pattern-to-rule-them-all

Full tabs: http://betweenthelicks.com/blues-guitar/playing-born-under-a-bad-sign-with-jam-track Learn to play the legendary Born Under A Bad Sign along with a free backing track from http://betweenthelicks.com. Visit the site for the full tabs and how-to!

A quick lesson on how to build slow blues licks from the blues scale and chord shapes. Including a free jam track from the new Jam Corner. Head to the site for more: http://betweenthelicks.com/blues-guitar/building-slow-blues-licks-with-jam-track

I made this lesson on a whim to go along with some simplistic jam tracks I put together (guitar, bass, and drum loop; very simple.) Find the jams at betweenthelicks.com/rock-guitar/building-rock-solos-with-jam-tracks Head to the site to play along and then grab Audacity and upload your own solo to the forums!

Tired of practicing? Stuck in a rut? Here are the 5 best tips to help all levels play more often without seeming like a waste. Head over to http://betweenthelicks.com/general/top-five-practice-tips for the full list plus general explanations! How do you manage to keep up? Let us know in the guitar forums at http://betweenthelicks.com/forum/

There are a lot of misconceptions about the search for "the tone". Believe it or not its not about equipment. Here is a quick primer to help convince you to stop worrying about you equipment. Be sure to get the full scope at http://betweenthelicks.com/general/how-to-find-the-tone Let us know what you play in our forums! Visit here: http://betweenthelicks.com/forum/

A simple way to go about choosing modes that fit chords. Very simply and effective. Be sure to read the full tab and how-to at: http://betweenthelicks.com/jazz-theory/choosing-modes Visit http://betweenthelicks.com for new lessons every other day! And a new forum!

Learn to think of chords as movable "shapes". This lesson isn't blues specific but this concept is applied to the blues in this lesson. Check out the tab here: http://betweenthelicks.com/blues-guitar/blues-chord-shapes Visit http://betweenthelicks.com for more free lessons!

5 great sounding blues bass lines. All in the key of A. Be sure to read the full accompanying tab at: http://betweenthelicks.com/blues-guitar/blues-bass-lines Don't forget to check out http://betweenthelicks.com for more lessons every other day.

Finally a SIMPLE way to understand modes. Its really easy because we only use the C major scale and those 7 notes to define each of the 7 modes. It is VERY important that you visit the site for descriptions and tabs for this particular lesson: http://betweenthelicks.com/jazz-theory/understanding-modes

Learn the basic 12 bar blues plus some common variations you can incorporate into your own music. Check out the website for the full sheet music and instructions: http://betweenthelicks.com/blues-guitar/12-bar-blues-and-variations Visit http://betweenthelicks.com for more free lessons!

To help those "tab-guitarists" take that step towards "musician". Its not hard if you can count. Really. Be sure to read the full instruction and tabs at http://betweenthelicks.com/general/three-vital-musical-concepts

Guitar lesson featuring some basic blues shuffle patterns in E and A. Check out the website a new guitar lesson every other day. Full tabs here: http://betweenthelicks.com/blues-guitar/various-blues-shuffles Visit http://betweenthelicks.com for more free lessons.

Learn to play your own blues licks using only the blues scale in A. Full tabs here: http://betweenthelicks.com/blues-guitar/blues-licks-from-blues-scales Visit betweenthelicks.com for more free guitar lessons.