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10 STEPS TO ELECTRIC GUITAR MASTERY

Our aim with this feature is to illustrate some cool playing ideas and fresh approaches for electric guitarists of all styles and abilities. Be it grooving with simple funk lines like Cory Wong, working with Hendrix-style chord embellishments, shredding up the fretboard with tapping pyrotechnics, or trying the show-stopping spectacle of slap bass style playing a la Guthrie Govan, there is hopefully something here for everyone.

We’ve created 10 tab examples, each with its own backing track for

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