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The complete practice library behind the tones — interactive fretboard engines, fusion vocabulary & runs, chord studies, the full Renegade Destruction study, plus backing tracks, MIDI files and Guitar Pro tabs. All free to open or download.
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Tone Lab
Easy Chords Big Sound — Volume II
Same rules as Vol I — nothing hard, everything open, shared strings between every change. Different moods this time: darker, wider, weirder, and one that's just three chords and a bad attitude.
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Tone Lab
The Four Guitars — A Field Guide
Two Suhr S-types, a Suhr Modern, and a PRS Custom 24 — four instruments, four jobs. When to reach for which, why, and the secret sauce for getting the best out of each one through the wet/dry rig.
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Tone Lab
The Solo Five — ScottG ToneLab
Five expressive effect treatments in Michael Landau's voice. Complete settings — amp, drives, modulation, delay, reverb. Set the whole rig once per preset, kick the wet effects on for the solo, kick t
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Tone Lab
TONELAB 05 — A Minor Slow Blues
Six choruses, five and a half minutes, deliberately sparse. The backing gets out of the way and stays there — organ pad, root-heavy bass, brushed shuffle. Everything you don't play is the point.
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Tone Lab — New
Breakpoint — Clean to Scream
One amp setting • Guitar volume maps clean → scream • Bm voiced
A single tone that lives on the breakpoint — rolled back it’s glassy clean, dimed it screams. The volume knob is the whole pedalboard. Voiced for B minor lead work.
1 Preset
Volume = Gain
Bm
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Tone Lab — New
Night Watch — Low-Volume Leave-On
Bedroom volume • Set-and-forget • Power-scaled • Bm voiced
The tone you leave on all night. Power-scaled to whisper volume with real tube feel intact — never touch the amp, just play. The quiet companion to Breakpoint.
1 Preset
Night Volume
Leave-On
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Tone Lab — New
Tone Operations Manual
The whole approach • Signal chain logic • "Probably Fine" philosophy
The operating manual behind the presets — how the chain is wired, why each block sits where it does, and how to dial any of it from scratch. Read this once and the rest of the lab clicks.
Reference
Signal Chain
Method
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Tone Lab — New
Rig Patch Book — Badger / Mesa Wet-Dry
Suhr Badger • Mesa • Wet-dry rig • Patch-by-patch settings
The full patch book for the wet-dry rig — every knob, every routing decision, written out so you can rebuild it. Plus a low-power chime variant and a full-detail edition.
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Tone Lab — New
The Rig Bible — Complete
Every rig • Every chain • The master reference
The complete rig reference — every amp, pedal, routing and patch decision in one master document. If it’s in the locker, it’s in here.
Master Ref
Full Locker
Complete
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Tone Lab 01
Scott Henderson
Suhr Badger 30 • Strymon Mobius • Strymon Timeline • Suhr Strat S
Five presets from glass clean to saturated screamer. Henderson drives the amp — minimal pedals, all gain from the EL34 power section. Volume knob is the primary gain control. Bass always low. Get the midrange from the guitar's tone knob.
5 Presets
Amp-Driven
FX Loop
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Tone Lab 02
Michael Landau
Suhr Badger 30 • Maxon SD-9 • Xotic AC+ • Fuzz Factory • Strymon Mobius • Strymon Timeline
Five presets from session shimmer to Hendrix supernova. Landau keeps the amp surgically clean and does everything with pedals. SD-9 with tone almost off and level dimed. AC+ always on as a clean boost. The polar opposite of Henderson — same amp, completely different philosophy.
5 Presets
Pedal-Driven
SD-9 + Fuzz
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Tone Lab 03
ScottG's Optimum Rig
Suhr Classic S • ML Pickups • Badger 30 • Maxon SD-9 • Xotic AC+ • Fuzz Factory • Strymon Mobius • Strymon Timeline
Henderson and Landau merged into one rig. Six presets from session clean to Hendrix psychedelic. Every setting optimised for ML Standard pickups. Full pedalboard with switching combinations — clean platform amp with pedals doing the work, or flip to Henderson mode for amp-driven gain.
6 Presets
Personal Rig
Full Board
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Tone Lab 04
The Abstract Collection
Fuzz Factory Oscillation • Mobius Destroyer • Ring Mod • Barber Pole Phaser • Formant Filter • Timeline Ice • Lo-Fi • Reverse
Seven tones nobody asked for. The sounds that live in the gaps between genres — self-oscillating fuzz into bit-crushers, barber pole phase illusions, ring-modulated industrial chaos, and vowel-morphing ghost choirs. Every Strymon machine you’ve never touched. Every pedal abused.
7 Patches
Experimental
Abstract
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Tone Lab 05
Hendrix Rip
Suhr Badger 18 • EL84 / 5Y3GT Tube Rectifier • Xotic AC+ • Strymon Mobius • Strymon Timeline • Suhr Classic S (ML)
Five Shades of Purple Haze. The Badger 18's EL84s and tube rectifier sag are the secret weapon — spongey, saggy, natural compression that blooms when you push it. From Little Wing clean to Star Spangled Cosmos full psychedelic. Henderson's amp gain meets Landau's effects meets Hendrix's controlled chaos.
5 Tones
Badger 18
Hendrix
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Tone Lab 06
Bank A — Night Session
Suhr Badger 18 (locked) • Power 3 / Drive 4 • Xotic AC+ • Strymon Mobius • Strymon Timeline • Suhr Classic S (ML)
Five definitive presets, one locked amp. The Badger 18 power-scaled to bedroom volume — you never touch the amp. All changes come from AC+ channel switching, Mobius and Timeline presets. Silk clean → Honey breakup → Torch crunch → Blaze lead → Fever Dream psychedelic. Set and forget.
5 Presets
Locked Amp
Bedroom
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Tone Lab 07
Suhr Modern Night
Suhr Modern HSH • SSV Neck 8KΩ • SSH+ Bridge 12K+ • Badger 18 (recalibrated) • Xotic AC+ • Strymon Mobius • Strymon Timeline
Same rig, different guitar, different universe. Five presets recalibrated for humbuckers — less bass, less mids, more treble, less gain. Glass House shimmer → Split Personality (auto-split trick) → Knuckleduster crunch → Liquid Metal lead → Event Horizon high gain.
5 Presets
Humbuckers
HSH
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Tone Lab 08
The Definitive Four
Wet/Dry • Badger 18 (dry + mod) • Mesa 5:25 (wet delay + reverb) • SD-9 • AC+ • Mobius • Timeline • 100% wet delay
Four worlds. Twenty tones. Henderson, Landau, Hendrix, and something that doesn't have a name yet. All power-scaled. All wet/dry through two amps. Four different amp settings for four different philosophies. SD-9, AC+, Mobius, Timeline. Set up once. Play for years.
20 Presets
Wet/Dry
4 Sets
Two Amps
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Tone Lab 09
The One Tone
Wet/Dry • Badger 18 (P4/D5/G5/B3/M6/T5) • Mesa 5:25 (100% wet) • SD-9 always on • AC+ always on • Mobius subliminal • Timeline dBucket
One preset. Guitar volume does everything. At 5 it's Landau session clean. At 7 it's liquid Holdsworth sax. At 10 it's filthy Henderson crunch. Everything always on. Nothing switches. Your pinky on the volume knob does the tone. Go practice.
1 Preset
Volume = Tone
Always On
Holdsworth
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Tone Lab 10
How Your Badger 18 Actually Works
Deep Dive • 5Y3GT Rectifier Sag • Power Scaling (London Power) • 3 Operating Modes • EL84 Cathode Bias • MOSFET Boost • Passive Tone Stack
The deep dive. Six tubes, three jobs. Why the 5Y3GT rectifier makes it breathe. Why Power Scaling beats attenuators. Why Drive must stay within 2 of Power. Why it sounds better at bedroom volume than most amps at full blast. Written for guitarists, not engineers.
Deep Dive
Badger 18
Power Scaling
5Y3GT Sag
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Tone Lab 11
Full Chain Wet/Dry
AC+ → SD-9 • Badger 18 (dry + mod) • Mesa 5:25 (wet delay + reverb) • Mobius in loop • Timeline 100% wet • Suhr Classic S (ML)
Every pedal. Every combination. Two amps. AC+ goes BEFORE the SD-9 this time — fattening the signal before it clips. Seven presets from pure silk to full entropy Event Horizon. The order change that unlocks a completely different distortion character. Holdsworth liquid, Landau session, Henderson raw, and a full gain stack that justifies owning both pedals.
7 Presets
Wet/Dry
AC+ → SD-9
Holdsworth
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Tone Lab 12
PRS Custom 24 Night
PRS Custom 24 • 59/09 Pickups (Alnico 2) • Badger 18 (recalibrated) • AC+ • SD-9 • Mobius • Timeline • Mesa 5:25
Different guitar, different rules. 59/09 humbuckers with Alnico 2 magnets push harder and warmer than ML Standards — every amp and pedal setting recalibrated for mahogany body, shorter scale, and hotter pickups. Set A: full wet/dry chain. Set B: stripped back to one pedal and one amp. Eight presets that show you what the PRS can do that neither Suhr can.
8 Presets
PRS 59/09
Recalibrated
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Tone Lab 13
The Crossbreed Five
Wet/Dry • Badger 18 • Mesa 5:25 • SD-9 • AC+ • Mobius • Timeline • Henderson × Landau × Hendrix hybrids
Five new directions. None overlap The Definitive Four — each tone crosses two player philosophies into something new. The Confessional (2am whisper), Desert Voodoo (Uni-Vibe swagger), The Seance (Leslie chord melody), Tribal Sky Church (shimmer fusion lead), The Nocturne (one note a minute). Same rig, completely new territory.
5 Presets
Crossbreed
Wet/Dry
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Tone Lab 14
The Midnight Five
Wet/Dry • Badger 18 Power-Scaled 1–2W • Mesa 5:25 • SD-9 • AC+ • Mobius • Timeline • Bedroom volume
Five tones that rip at whisper volume. Real EL84 power-tube breakup at 1–2 watts using the Power Scaling Rule: Power low, Drive within 2 of Power, Gain does what Gain does. From whisper crunch to bedroom Plexi — genuine tube compression without the neighbours calling. Start with M4 and feel the EL84s squash at conversation volume.
5 Presets
Night Volume
Power Scaling
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Tone Lab 15
Big Sky One Tone — Suhr Classic S
Suhr Classic S • ML Standard A5 Single Coils • Strymon Big Sky (Hall) • Badger 18 • Mesa 5:25 • Wet/Dry
Why the Classic S likes Hall reverb at medium decay. ML Standard single coils at 6.5K through alder give glassy, three-dimensional sound that wants a room around it. Hall mode, decay 2 sec, warm tone. The Big Sky adds dimension without smearing single-coil top end. Volume knob maps the full palette from glass to crunch.
1 Preset
Big Sky
Hall Reverb
Classic S
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Tone Lab 16
Big Sky One Tone — Suhr Modern HSH
Suhr Modern HSH • SSV / V60LP / SSH+ • Strymon Big Sky (Plate) • Badger 18 • Mesa 5:25 • Wet/Dry
The polar opposite of the Classic S. SSH+ bridge at ~12K with Alnico V pushes mids forward aggressively, basswood is darker and more compressed. Hall reverb would turn this into mush — this guitar needs faster, brighter Plate reverb with shorter decay. A slap of dimension behind hot legato lines, not a wash.
1 Preset
Big Sky
Plate Reverb
Modern HSH
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Tone Lab 17
Big Sky One Tone — PRS Custom 24
PRS Custom 24 • 59/09 Pickups (Alnico 2) • Strymon Big Sky (Spring) • Badger 18 • Mesa 5:25 • Wet/Dry
The easiest to dial reverb for and the trickiest to get wrong. 59/09 humbuckers with Alnico 2 magnets give natural compression and blooming sustain. Mahogany body adds woody warmth. The Big Sky stays out of the way — Spring reverb, short, bright, almost not there. Anything more and you smother what makes the PRS a PRS.
1 Preset
Big Sky
Spring Reverb
PRS 59/09
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Tone Lab 19
The Solo Five
Lead voicings • Five sustain platforms • Wet/Dry • AC+, SD-9, Mobius, Timeline • Badger 18 + Mesa 5:25
Five lead-voice tones, each one a singing platform. Different gain shapes, different sustain curves, same pitch focus. Dialed for clarity at any volume from bedroom to stage. The set you reach for when the rhythm part is locked and the solo needs to cut.
5 Presets
Lead Voice
Sustain
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Tone Lab 21
Greasy Strat Tone Lab
Strat single coils • Bridge tone knob • Low-headroom amp gain • SD-9 light • AC+ as compressor
Strat-specific tone shop. Single coils into low-headroom amp gain, with the bridge pickup tone knob doing the heavy lifting. SD-9 used lightly to fatten, AC+ as a compressor more than a boost. Get the grease without losing the glass.
1 Preset
Greasy
Strat-Spec
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Tone Lab 22
The Landau — One Tone, No Compromises
One amp setting • One pedal stack • Your hands do the rest • Badger 18 + Mesa 5:25
If you only ran one Landau preset for the rest of your life, this is it. One amp setting locked in. One pedal stack always on. Your hands and your volume knob do the rest of the work. The opposite of preset-flipping — pure dynamics-as-tone.
1 Preset
Locked
Dynamics
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Tone Lab 23
The Fool-Proof Bend Masterclass
Pitch accuracy • Post-bend vibrato • Finger reinforcement • Half-bend pitfalls
Bending technique drilled to muscle memory. Pitch accuracy with reference tones, vibrato AFTER the bend (not before), three-finger reinforcement so your weakest hand can still hit pitch, and why half-bends ruin solos when you don't commit.
Practice
Technique
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Tone Lab 24
Landau Tone Exercises — Finger Studies
Position shifts • Voice-leading • Sustained legato • Tone-in-the-hands philosophy
Finger studies in the Landau idiom. Position shifts that don't lose the line, voice-leading on adjacent strings, sustained legato passages where the pick barely moves. Built to grow the kind of tone that doesn't disappear when you swap amps.
Practice
Landau
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Tone Lab 25
Landau 8-Bar Practice — Timing Focus
8-bar phrases • Metronome • Behind-the-beat phrasing • Lazy-feel mechanics
Eight-bar phrases drilled against a metronome. Pure timing focus — locking the feel of behind-the-beat phrasing without dragging the bar line. Lazy-feel is a learned mechanic, not an attitude. This is how you build it.
Practice
Timing
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Tone Lab 26
Landau & Henderson Exercises — Bm & Dm Aeolian
Bm Aeolian • Dm Aeolian • Modal exercises • Player-specific line construction
Modal exercises in Bm and Dm Aeolian — the home keys of both players. Built to expose how Landau lines move through the modes vs how Henderson grids them. Same scale. Different mental model. Drill both, learn the difference.
Practice
Modal
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Tone Lab 28
Landau & Henderson — Renegade Destruction Key Landscape
Full key landscape • Every chord, every modulation • Neck-zone mapping • v2 manual-accurate
Key landscape map for the Renegade Destruction practice piece. Every chord, every key change, exactly where to be on the neck. Cross-referenced against both players' line vocabularies so you can choose your approach per section.
Practice
Renegade
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Tone Lab 29
Five Scales — Landau & Henderson in Bm
Pentatonic • Aeolian • Dorian • Mixolydian • Lydian • All in Bm
Five essential scales mapped over Bm. Pentatonic, Aeolian, Dorian, Mixolydian, Lydian. With targeted Landau-Henderson exercises per shape that highlight what each player does differently inside the same scale. The biggest single practice doc here.
Practice
5 Scales
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Tone Lab 31
Melody Improvement — Chord by Chord
Target tones per chord • Play-through vs land-on • Phrase construction • Scale-to-melody bridge
Chord-by-chord melody construction. Target tones per chord, when to play through changes vs land on them. The bridge from running scales to building actual phrases. The thing most practice guides skip.
Practice
Melody
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Tone Lab 32
Renegade Destruction — Modal Analysis & Practice
Section-by-section modal breakdown • Practice drills • Transition mechanics
Modal breakdown of Renegade Destruction. Every section keyed and modally annotated, with practice drills for the tricky transitions where modal flavor needs to flip mid-bar. Get the whole piece under your fingers without faking the changes.
Practice
Renegade
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Tone Lab 33
Renegade Destruction — Practice Console
Manual-accurate v2 • Loop sections • Tempo control • Position cues
The practice rig for learning Renegade Destruction end-to-end. Manual-accurate v2 console with section looping, tempo control, and position cues that show you where on the neck the line lives. The training wheels you take off section by section.
Console
Renegade
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Tone Lab 36
Renegade Destruction — Riff Pack
Standalone riff library • Extracted from the full piece • Steal-and-reuse legal • Composition fuel
Standalone riff library extracted from Renegade Destruction. Play them as exercises, or steal them for your own compositions. The good bits without the whole piece — the way blues guitarists learned licks from records in the 60s.
Riffs
Renegade
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Tone Lab 37
Blues Sequences — 60 BPM Practice Pack
12-bar blues form • 60 BPM • Sequences that move through changes • Beyond one-chord licks
Twelve-bar blues sequence library at 60 BPM. Sequences = phrases that move through the form, not just licks over one chord. The difference between “I know blues” and “I can actually play through a blues.”
Practice
Blues
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Tone Lab 38
Slow Blues in A — Backing Track
Slow blues • Key of A • Drums + bass + comping piano • No lead guitar • Loop & jam
Slow blues in A. Loop, jam, find your phrasing. The track stays out of your way — drums, bass, comping piano, no lead guitar in the mix. The room for you. Stretch the bends, let the rests breathe.
Backing
Slow Blues
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Tone Lab 39
Fusion Chords — Five Progressions to Fix Your Comping
Five progressions • Voice-leading • Upper-structure triads • Inside-the-changes comping • Fusion idiom
Five fusion progressions that retrain your comping. Inside the changes, voice-led, with the upper-structure triads written out — the difference between “jazzy” and actually fusion. The companion piece to the Bm9 ↔ Em9 vamp.
Comping
Fusion
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Tone Lab 40
Fusion Chords — B Minor Ecosystem
Bm Dorian • Bm Aeolian • ii-V-i resolutions • Tritone subs • Slash voicings • One key, full map
Every fusion chord that lives in Bm. Relative-key Dorian and Aeolian, ii-V-i resolutions, tritone subs, slash voicings — the whole ecosystem mapped to one key. The sister piece to the Five Progressions, locked to a single tonal centre so you can drill it into muscle memory.
Comping
Bm Ecosystem
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Tone Lab 41
Rare-Chord Progressions — B Minor / D Major
Sus-add-9 • Lydian II • Parallel-key borrowing • Ostinato-bass moves • Bm / D Major
Progressions you almost never hear, written for Bm / D Major. Sus-add-9, lydian II, parallel-key borrowing, ostinato-bass moves. The things that sound expensive without being technically difficult. Steal them.
Composition
Rare
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Tone Lab 42
Halvorson Etudes — Five Long Ones
Wide intervals • Angular lines • Sustained legato • Mary Halvorson idiom • TAB
Five long-form études in the Halvorson idiom — angular leaps, unexpected intervals, and lines that refuse to sit in a box. Written out in full TAB with tempos. Grow the ear and the reach at once.
Practice
Halvorson
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Tone Lab 43
The Halvorson Approach — Study Pack
Angular phrasing • Modal cells • Wide leaps • Chromatic pivots • TAB
A full study pack decomposing the Halvorson approach: the intervals, the modal cells, the chromatic pivots and the phrasing that make it sound like nobody else. Drills you can actually practise.
Practice
Halvorson
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Tone Lab 44
Halvorson Approach — 1-Month Programme
4-week plan • Daily routine • Etudes • Ear + reach • TAB
A structured month on the Halvorson approach — week-by-week, day-by-day. Etudes, interval work and phrasing built into a routine so the angular vocabulary becomes yours, not just something you can read.
Programme
Halvorson
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Tone Lab 45
Power-Chord Riffs — Thornicus Fuzz
Power chords • Riff pack • Fuzz • Palm-mute grooves • TAB
A pack of power-chord riffs built for a fat fuzz — palm-muted grooves, movable shapes and hooks that land with the gain up. Full TAB, ready to steal.
Riffs
Fuzz
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Tone Lab 49
Beautiful Voicings — Strum & Comp (Alt Take)
Lush open shapes • I–vi–IV–V • Chambered clean • Straight 8ths • TAB
A leaner take on the beautiful-voicings idea — a palette of lush, open shapes that ring on a chambered clean tone. I–vi–IV–V all dressed up: strum softly in straight 8ths and let the barely-moving top strings glue it together.
Comping
Voicings
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Tone Lab 51
Hendrix Vocabulary — Runs
Hendrix-style runs • Thumb-over • Pentatonic + chromatic • R&B phrasing • TAB
The signature run vocabulary: those fluid, thumb-over pentatonic-and-chromatic lines that connect chord shapes the Hendrix way. Full TAB, broken down phrase by phrase so you can steal the moves and make them your own.
Vocab
Blues
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