October 25, 202210Comments

Choosing A Guitar And Why I Use What I Use

The one email I answer more than any other has to do with choosing an electric guitar for playing the blues… To go along with that, I’m often asked why I chose the...

by Griff

Lessons

October 18, 20223Comments

A Great “Mixer” Lick

This is a shining example of how to mix the major and minor blues scales/sounds using boxes 1 and 2 of the blues scale… It pivots around the root up top (which I talk...

by Griff

Lessons

October 11, 20222Comments

Adding Blues Arpeggios To The Major Blues Scale

By now, you likely know that you can use the minor blues scale or minor pentatonic scale over all of the chords of a blues… And you may even know the major blues sound...

by Griff

Lessons

Practicing

October 4, 20225Comments

A “1 Move” 12 Bar Blues Solo

This little solo example is simply a way I’ve come up with to give you some practice making one of the most important “moves” out of Box 1 of the pentatonic...

by Griff

Lessons

September 27, 20227Comments

Following Power Chords With Box 1

I was messing around with the song, “Life In The Fast Lane,” and digging into the solo a little… It uses a great trick using Box 1 of the major pentatonic...

by Griff

Uncategorized

September 20, 20225Comments

Better Double Time Strumming

Clearly, today isn’t a blues guitar lesson… but strumming is, arguably, one of the most important things you can do on a guitar… So you need to be able to do...

by Griff

Uncategorized

September 20, 20221Comments

September 2022 Practice Generator Update

There have been some changes made to the Practice Generator due to the list of courses and lessons getting way too long to work with…

by Griff

Lessons

September 13, 20224Comments

Bends… Lots Of ‘Em

Heading back to some blues technique basics today… I think bending is the thing that makes guitars cooler than everything else 🙂 But, if your bends are…...

by Griff

Lessons

September 6, 20225Comments

Look For Patterns In Licks

As I started going through this particular lick for today’s lesson, I realized there are actually at least 3 cool things going on that are important: 1 – The...

August 30, 202213Comments

Chasing Chords With A Simple Blues Phrase

Like many videos I do, I’m hoping this will inspire you to experiment a little and try this out in your soloing… When most folks play or learn a blues lick,...

by Griff

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