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THIS MONTH, I’D like to use another couple of excerpts from my song “Ghost of You,” which I recorded with the Andy Timmons Band for our 2006 album, Resolution, to demonstrate some cool, effective ways of employing various pick- and fret-hand techniques to create riff patterns that roll nicely off the fretboard. The first is the fingerpicked breakdown section, and the second is a part that follows and is devised of shifting two-note fretboard shapes with recurring open-string pull-offs.