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| | Play Guitar Magazine: Lead Licks, page1 |
 | | If you’ve been strumming your guitar for a while (even a short while) but have visions of taking triumphant guitar solos, it’s time to take a stab at playing lead guitar, and the best place to get started is with the blues. |
 | | Playing lead guitar means understanding the relationship between the chords in a song and the single-note, scale-based licks, or short melodic fragments, played over those chords. |
 | | Blues lead guitar draws on a variety of influences and sounds, but by far the most important ingredient is the minor-pentatonic scale, and almost everyone’s first experiences with lead guitar start here. |
| www.playguitarmagazine.com /article/PG5/PG5,5476,LESSONSANDSONGS-1.asp (716 words) |
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