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Tutor: Richard Barrett | Gear used: Knaggs SSC, Vox AC15 C1

Four-Note Blues

tutorials that advise on how to expand your vocabulary in terms of extra notes added to pentatonic patterns, referring to implied chord extensions or even superimposing one implied chord over another. While I’m a fan of these lessons, it occurred to me that it might be interesting

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