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Sick of Playing the Same Old Lead Lines? Here’s How Guitar Players Like Robert Fripp, Bill Frisell and Frank Zappa Broke the Mold By Patrick Brennan published 9 March 23 Learn to play “outside” by superimposing arpeggios over chord changes