"through all the years of my teaching experience I've noticed that most guitarists always learn to play scales, and try to play as fast as possible, but they miss one very important point of guitar playing and that's phrasing. So what is a good phrasing, you may ask? It's simply a means to play some melodic idea with a good rhytmic sense, thus creating a nice sounding solo (or riff). The simplest way to start to learn phrasing is by looking at some blues guitarists..."

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