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Quite some time I am playing the guitar. I have an acoustic and electric one (a black Ibanez EXR-170 for those interested). A friend of mine recommended practicing pentatonic scales. I looked up some link and started practising, this improved my guitar solo skills for sure. Here are the links I found:

Overview of the pentatonic scales:

• all five positions used in pentatonic scales
• some more theory about pentatonic scales
• chord finder which does support looking up pentatonic scales
• list with full penatonic scales in tab

Backing music which can be used to practise solos

• Blues backing track in E
• Blues backing track in E (fast)
• Blues backing track in C

Video Tutorial

• Playing blues solos over the whole neck in C

Ibanez EXR-170

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This week I received my brand new guitar capo. I ordered it at an eBay shop for a couple of dollars. The capo looks very solid and did its job great! I ordered the capo in order to play songs like Amy Macdonald’s Borrowland Ballroom (click for tab). When I played the song without capo I heard something was not quite right about the sound. Then I started reading the whole tab and saw a capo was needed. Now I can play the nice Amy sound with my capo

my capo

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Looking for a guitar chord but no clue about the finger setting? Chordfind.com shows you the finger setting for each chord

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A friend of mine was talking about blues on the piano. He showed me some youtube video’s showing piano blues scales. Since I am a guitar player (well at least I try to be one I was looking for some blues scales on the guitar.

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