October 21, 201946Comments

The Bluest Blues

As the driving force behind Ten Years After, Alvin Lee was a brilliant blues/rock guitar player… Admittedly, I’m only recently becoming familiar with his work, but...

by Griff

Lessons

October 17, 201910Comments

7th Chord Mixing And Matching

When you’re comping or playing blues rhythm, it’s easy to get comfortable with one chord shape… But you can add a lot to your rhythm playing by simply moving...

by Griff

Lessons

October 15, 201913Comments

Beginners – Easy Blues Turnaround Ideas

If you are familiar with the popular ‘Blues In E” type of blues riff, then you’ve come across a turnaround before – even if you didn’t know it....

by Griff

Lessons

October 6, 20197Comments

Turning A Classic Rock Lick Into A Blues Lick (Walk This Way)

So, this is cool, because I get to kill 2 birds with one stone… I love great classic rock licks, and this sure is one of those 🙂 Plus, I get to mold it into a blues lick...

by Griff

Lessons

October 2, 201914Comments

The Chuck Berry Double Stop Lick

Many of my students want to learn to play Chuck Berry licks… and for good reason! But, they usually struggle because of 2 issues: 1 – the bends aren’t...

by Griff

Lessons

September 30, 201916Comments

Easy Boogie Woogie Blues Riff

This is a simple, boogie style blues riff that should suit most beginning and early intermediate blues guitar players. It uses a 12 bar blues in E, with a simple riff based...

by Griff

Lessons

September 27, 201931Comments

Harmonizing Double Stops Using Chord Scales (Huh?)

Yup… it’s another episode of “Theory Fun Time” where we’re going to learn how to do something really cool… … because of a little...

by Griff

Practicing

September 23, 201917Comments

How To Ingrain Moves

It’s hard to describe exactly what this video is, but it came from someone asking me if I make all these different changes without thinking about it… and the...

by Griff

Lessons

September 19, 201917Comments

12 Bar Blues In Any Key

A lot of my students that I see get hung up on only playing the blues in the “standard” keys of A, or E… And in most cases it’s pretty simple to change...

by Griff

Lessons

September 16, 201922Comments

Guitar Lesson The Major Scale On Guitar

One of the biggest debates I see in blues-land is the debate about music theory… And while I’m a big theory geek, and love it, I realize it ain’t for...

by Griff

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