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October 7, 201836Comments

Easy Ways To Start Your Blues Solos

With a lot of students, they learn some scales and patterns and then when it's time to solo they get "paralysis by analysis" and end up playing close to nothing! Here

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October 4, 201819Comments

Bending More Effectively

Today's short video is not a complete bending tutorial, but more aimed at you if you can sort of bend, but they don't always seem to make sense. There are reasons

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October 2, 201830Comments

Solo Shuffle Strum Pattern From Comping Pattern

A little while back I did a lesson on a BB King lick that I particularly enjoy... and I played a little rhythm into my looper to demonstrate the lick... I

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September 26, 201824Comments

What To Practice Next Using “How Vs. What”

Over the last decade and change I've gone from a completely private one-on-one environment to almost a "coaching" role as I now guide most people through a more "self directed"

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September 23, 201838Comments

How To Jam By Yourself As A Beginner

So... today's lesson is more for the beginners... but it might be quite useful to some of you more experienced players as well. Because even though you might be familiar already

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September 18, 201839Comments

How To Add Some Variety To Your Solos

It's super easy to get stuck in a steady steam of 1/8th notes when you solo... So in today's video I'll give you a couple of ideas on ways to break

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September 15, 201822Comments

BB King Let The Good Times Roll Lick

This is a fun lick that shows off BB King's incredible use of my favorite thing - rhythm. It's a simple pattern, one I commonly call the House Pattern, with a

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August 31, 20181Comments

What To Expect In A Challenge

If you've not done a BGULabs Challenge before, you might be wondering what to expect. Here's a little video showing you how it will (most likely) work:

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