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Speedy blues lick: 1m02s

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Buddy Whittington's speedy lick works with typically bluesy ambiguity, starting in the area of A minor pentatonic, shape 1, before moving down to an area associated with A major pentatonic, shape 5.

Albert King-style bends: 1m58s

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Don't hurt yourself playing this one! The four-fret bends in this little Albert King tribute will take some practice, so work up to them gradually. Albert King was left-handed and played a standard right-handed Flying V upside-down, he made those huge bends by pulling downwards.

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