This is a concept that I hear a lot in playing by modern blues players like Matt Schofield, Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, and others. It involves using a bit of music theory to...

In a previous video we talked about using a ii-V instead of the V-VI in bars 9 and 10 of the 12 bar blues…. And in that video, I mentioned that the ii-V is often...

In this blues guitar lesson we’ll talk about one of the common-er jazz/jump style variations. It’s a ii-V (two-five) move over bars 9 and 10 of the 12 bar blues...

This is kind of hard to explain, but I think you’ll find it fun… One of my students was asking about the intro to ZZ Top’s tune, “Brown Sugar,”...

I know it’s not blues, but sometimes it’s just fun to try a little something different… This is a simple fingerstyle pattern that is a good way to start to...

A lot of times my students will learn box 1 (and maybe box 2) of the pentatonic scale really well… But then when it comes to boxes 4 and 5… not so much....