These positions make full use of all four fingers and cover more frets than the traditional five-position, or CAGED system shapes. As every string has the same number of notes, three-notes-per-string ...

The blues lick is phrased with three notes per beat, the rock lick is based on four notes per beat, and finally the challenging shred lick has six notes for every beat. The licks are designed to sound ...

Keith Richards explains the 5-string guitar: '5 strings, 3 notes, 2 hands and 1 asshole' "You can't buy a persona. You can either make it up or you can be it," states Keith Richards.