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Guitar Tricks - The Learning Guitar Player's Resource

As a guitar player you have probably trawled the internet looking for guitar lessons. Whether or not you want to learn to play guitar for free, your vision probably involved learning songs form tabs as well as getting as much theory and technique exercises you can handle.
Ten years ago a guy named Jon Broderick went looking for websites featuring high quality guitar lessons and, the legend goes, he had so little success, he went and made his own. The outcome was Guitar Tricks, another site that gives you access to their lessons in return for a monthly subscription. Not unlike Jamplay, but Guitar Tricks has been collecting guitar lessons for ten years, plus they have a collection of twenty-four free guitar lessons that you can try. Your free lessons are of the same quality as the lessons you get with your monthly subscription, taught by the same teachers who conduct the lessons for subscribers to Guitar Tricks.
Your membership of Guitar Tricks gets you full access to a buttload of tutorials, sheet music, video lessons and backing tracks. Not only do you get the benefit of the Guitar Tricks guys' years of archiving guitar lessons but their content is updated every day.
Guitar Tricks has a forum that holds the records of questions and answers between thousands of guitarists. Would you believe there's over two-hundred thousand posts? And not only that, you can also have feedback from the Guitar Tricks teachers on any nagging question your brain can formulate.

Duane Eddy – guitar hero of the sixties

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Today I am featuring a star whose career as a guitar hero began in the late nineteen fifties and ended with the advent of the British groups in the sixties. Duane Eddy was a guitar player who started playing at age five, who developed a style that was unique. He loved picking single note tunes on the bass strings down near the bridge. He teamed up with a local disc jockey named Lee Hazlewood who later became a famous record producer, to churn out ten albums and thirty-four singles with fifteen in the top forty between 1958 and 1965, selling a total of one hundred million records. Duane Eddy and Lee Hazlewood formularized their music by mixing Eddy playing his single-note melodies on a Chet Atkins Gretsch 6120 hollowbody and bending the bass strings through a mix of echo, whammy bar and tremolo. This became the sound of the nineteen fifties rev heads in cowboy hats and it made Duane Eddy the best selling rock and roll instrumentalist ever.

Duane Eddy’s most lasting hits are probably Peter Gunn and Shazam! which you can find him playing if you do a search on YouTube but I have picked a very tasty clip called Three-thirty Blues:


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