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Dan McAvinchey

Practice With The Masters

Dan McAvinchey

Stop practicing with boring scales and start testing your fingers with melodic 'riffs' from Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and more.

February-March 1997
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Rhythm 'N' Leads

Dan McAvinchey

Stop strumming those simple barre chords, and embellish your chordal work with licks and phrases that blur the distiction between rhythm and lead guitar playing.

October-November 1996
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Dan McAvinchey

Roll Your Own Pentatonics

Dan McAvinchey

Break free of your limiting beliefs about pentatonic scales.

August-September 1996
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Dan McAvinchey

The Ascension

Dan McAvinchey

Nowhere to go with ascending licks but up? Dan McAvinchey confronts the problem and gives you several ideas you can use today. Don't just take the easy way out and start descending either.

June-July 1996