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April 20, 20254Comments

Make It Squeal

While Billy Gibbons uses pinch (sometimes called artificial) harmonics (often called "squeals") in solos like La Grange... These things are a *staple* of hard rock and heavy guitar playing. You really

by Griff

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April 18, 20253Comments

Mixing Pentatonic And Natural Minor

This is a lick I took from my 5 "Easy" Hard Rock Solo course (out of solo #2, in fact)... It's in the key of E Minor, but where we used

by Griff

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April 17, 20257Comments

Hard Rock Lick In F# Minor

This is a lick I took from my 5 "Easy" Hard Rock Solo course (out of solo #1, in fact)... It's in the key of F#minor, using mostly just the F#

by Griff

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April 8, 20255Comments

Echo Chords Better With 1 Tweak

When you do blues solos, of course you can always just use your regular minor pentatonic or blues scale... And the last thing I want to do is say that's somehow

by Griff

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March 25, 20259Comments

Me And My Guitar Intro Lick

"Me & My Guitar" by Freddie King is one of my all time favorite tunes, I play it with my band often (pretty much every gig.) Surprisingly, I've never really sat

by Griff

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March 21, 20255Comments

Taking The Major Train

Recently I did a video where I talked about using a minor "2+3" pattern to get through your original 5 pentatonic boxes in a horizontal fashion... I likened it to a

by Griff

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March 18, 202510Comments

Blues Rhythm The Easy Way

Blues "comping," or blues rhythm playing, can seem somewhat overwhelming when you hear people talk about all kinds of different chord shapes... How are you supposed to remember them all? And when

by Griff

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March 3, 202512Comments

The Pentatonic Train

Most folks learn the pentatonic/blues scales through the "5 boxes" that come up time and time again, and they are fantastic patterns... But I find that if I can look at

by Griff

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February 24, 202516Comments

Lonesome Train Blues – The Song

Now that we've gone through the different parts and the different skills you need to play this tune, let's play it! Keep in mind that this is very much the style

by Griff

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February 23, 202515Comments

Lonesome Train Blues – Little Chords

The idea of these "little" chord voicings is something I talk a lot about, and I hear people say how great they sound... But they don't take the time to learn

by Griff

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