When you're soloing using the minor blues or pentatonic scale (as we all do, a LOT), it's nice to just make a little nod to the "right-er" fit of the

Plain and simple, if you want to play the blues, this is the chord you need to do it. Here's the chord, and 3 ways to play it, and a good

This lick is cool because it uses a double stop move from box 5 to box 1, and borrows a note that works particularly well over the IV chord (though

This is just a cool lick from box 1 in a shuffle feel (like the ones found in 50 Shuffle Blues Licks By The Box, in case you need more

This is one of those licks that I really dig because of the interesting rhythm in the first couple of notes, plus the pre-bend and release on beat 3... That said,

Of course, "American Band," by Grand Funk Railroad is a cool song... But it also happens to showcase a rhythmic issue that I see *all* the time, and I don't want

I guess you could think of this as kind of a "tapping 101" type of video.... There are *gobs* of things you can do with tapping, but these are a couple

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

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