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New! Chop Suey TV
Tune in our new Chop Suey TV for blues, rock, jazz and slide video lessons along with some of our favorite performances from Thom Bresh, Muriel Anderson, DR Auten, Monte Montgomery and Joscho Stephan.
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TFU 4.1 Video CD-ROM: Dominant Blues Solos
We continue the blues series with twenty more video lessons focused on soloing over dominant blues changes. The harmonies will be dominant 7th chords (1-3-5-flat7) built on the I-IV-V progression. We start with the minor pentatonic blues scale and work up to more advanced melodic approaches.
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TrueFire Podcasts
New audio and video Podcasts featuring both audio lessons and video performances are now available on iTunes. Subscribe to both free Podcasts now! >> StudioWire ...
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NOTE: You must have iTunes installed
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Tip Jar: Duke Robillard's Guitar Groove-A-Rama
Fans of Duke Robillard and the blues are in for a treat when they get a hold of Duke’s tasty new disc, Guitar Groove-A-Rama, wherein Mr. Robillard proceeds to tear up the strings on his collection of amazing guitars to show who’s the real boss of blues guitar.
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Family-sized portions of lessons, tips and news
Welcome to the first edition of our brand-spanking new monthly newsletter, Chop Suey! After three years of publishing TFU News, we thought it was time for a new look, feel and format. Chop Suey prefaces many new additions and changes you’ll be experiencing on TrueFire, over the next few months, so buckle up and enjoy the trip.
Chop Suey TV is one of those new happenings. Now you can tune in several lesson and performance videos from some of our top courses and favorite artists. Turn on Chop Suey TV now!
Our Podcasts seem to be thriving over at iTunes and so maybe it’s time you plugged in as well. See the Podcast box below and jump on a Podcast for more free audio and video material.
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Featured Guitar Lessons of the Month
Playing Along with a Harmony
 by Jeff Scheetz
One of the things we love to do as guitar players, especially in the recording studio, is to “layer” parts. In other words, we play a melody line or solo, and then put a harmony to it, or even sometimes two or three layers depending on what sound and style you are going for. This is not always as easy as it seems ...
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Blues for Don 
by Mark Stefani
Ready for a shot of Wes Montgomery influence in your playing? This is a jazz swing blues guitar lesson, based on an original song composition that uses classic octave licks with chord punches, typical of "The Man" who personified jazz guitar. Start off by reading the standard notation and tablature ...
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Ry Cooder's Famous Turnaround 
by Steve Elliott
"Rag For Ry" is dedicated to Ry Cooder because it uses one of his famous turnarounds as the backbone to the piece. It really is a distinctive sound and definitely one to add to your arsenal of turnarounds. It's in the key of E major. Why not try this one instead of your usual turnarounds when you're ...
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Pentatonic Pulls & Finger Rise 
by Jamie Andreas
There are a number of "diseases" that afflict the left hand in the course of its development on the guitar, diseases that take the form of built in "bad habits" that players acquire without knowing it. We get these diseases as we practice our first songs and exercises, scales ...
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Fire & Flow - Jimmy Herring 
by Jude Gold
Headliners such as the Allman Brothers Band, Blues Traveler, and the Dave Matthews Band all find that Herring solos like John Coltrane through a Marshall—and his fiery tone, ferocious chops, and humble nature make him a treasure in any band. From secret uses of the pentatonic scale ...
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New Acoustic Fingerstyle Video Course!
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Fingerstyle guitar has recently exploded into a renaissance unto itself! This explosion in popularity is credited directly to the more contemporary fingerstyle techniques which fuse techniques, rhythms and harmony from blues, jazz, ragtime, country, funk, flamenco and rock. Fingerstyle Fusion is your first step to getting a quick grip on contemporary fingerstyle tunes and techniques.
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Mimi Fox premiers Jazz Anatomy course and Perpetually Hip CD in April
April is the month of the Fox as Mimi Fox debuts a new interactive video course, Jazz Anatomy with TrueFire and a new CD, Perpetually Hip on Favored Nations.
Phenom player, brilliant educator and top recording artist, Mimi Fox is hailed by Just Jazz Guitar as "jazz guitar at its best." Mimi also teaches and chairs the guitar department at the Jazz School in Berkeley. In short, Mimi has all the chops.
Mimi's Jazz Anatomy decodes the structure of jazz guitar revealing a remarkably clear approach for comping, melodic development and improvisation. Mimi presents five grooves and progressions that are common to thousands of tunes; Major Blues, Minor Blues, Modal, II V I Major and II V I Minor. Each form is covered across 8 video lessons (40 video lessons in total), starting with basic concepts, lines and comps, and then progressing to more advanced material.
With her seventh release, the ambitious two-CD set Perpetually Hip, Mimi Fox once again displays the masterful command of the fretboard that has led to her being named a "Rising Star" in three consecutive Down Beat International Critics Polls (2003, 2004, 2005). You can pre-order the CD at Favored Nations.
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