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PART EIGHT DOUBLESTOPS

DOUBLESTOP RHYTHM

Last time, we talked legato and how we can tie together notes to give our scales and lead lines more flow and depth. In this lesson, we’re going to look at another concept that will add something new to our lead guitar playing: doublestops.

A doublestop, or a dyad as it is more formally known, is a set of two notes played simultaneously which, in some contexts, may imply a chord. Doublestops can be used for a variety of reasons within blues music–you can use them to

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