Box 5 Shuffle Blues Lick
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
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Box 1 Shuffle Blues Lick
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
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Box 2 Shuffle Blues Lick
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,
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How To Play American Band
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
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Get Started With 2 Hand Tapping
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
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Make It Squeal
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
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Mixing Pentatonic And Natural Minor
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
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Hard Rock Lick In F# Minor
This is a lick I took from my 5 "Easy" Hard Rock Solo course (out of solo #1, in fact)...
It's in the key of F#minor, using mostly just the F#
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Echo Chords Better With 1 Tweak
When you do blues solos, of course you can always just use your regular minor pentatonic or blues scale...
And the last thing I want to do is say that's somehow
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Me And My Guitar Intro Lick
"Me & My Guitar" by Freddie King is one of my all time favorite tunes, I play it with my band often (pretty much every gig.)
Surprisingly, I've never really sat
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