What Is The Real Blues Feel?

Yup, I'm a huge BB King fan, he was probably my first blues guitar hero, aside from SRV (and followed closely by Albert and Freddie.) Some folks might think these "tricks"

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