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A DIME A HALF DOZEN

Dimebag Darrell Abbott continues to be one of both Texas’ and modern metal’s most celebrated and influential guitarists. His bone-crunching power-chord and single-note riffs, hauntingly beautiful clean, mellow arpeggio passages and wailing, goosebump-inducing leads, as featured in such Pantera classics as “Cowboys from Hell,” “Floods,” “This Love,” “Cemetery Gates,” “Primal Concrete Sledge,” “5 Minutes Alone” and others, continue to inspire metal and hard rock guitarists the world over. In this lesson, we present a handful of short,

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