May 24, 202112Comments

How To Add Vibrato To A Bent Note

First and foremost… If you’re not cool with bending, in general, and your vibrato on un-bent notes isn’t happening yet… Then adding vibrato to a note...

by Griff

Lessons

May 14, 202116Comments

Better Blues Solos With Syncopation

Wanting to play cooler blues solos is a typical request from students… But most go about it all wrong, thinking that more notes, more patterns, and more speed, are going...

by Griff

Lessons

April 29, 20219Comments

How To Start A Blues Song From The V

A lot of us take it for granted when we hear that we’re going to start a blues song, “From the V…” So in this video, I’ll show you what that...

by Griff

Lessons

April 26, 202117Comments

Pull Your Listener To The Next Chord

There are a lot of ways to solo over a blues chord progression, but one things that holds true is using chord tones… In this video, I’ll show you a great way to...

by Griff

Lessons

March 30, 20216Comments

5 Easy Blues Songs – King Strut Melody

I swiped another one from my 5 Easy Blues Songs course for you today… It’s the melody from the song, “King Strut,” that is more of an homage to Freddie...

by Griff

Lessons

March 29, 202123Comments

Just Got Paid

I was asked by my friend, Steve Stine, to join in a remote collaboration video doing the song, “Just Got Paid,” by ZZ Top… and also re-made by Joe...

by Griff

Lessons

March 28, 20211Comments

Al’s Blues Lick #5

Today I stole a little snippet from my new, 5 Easy Blues Songs course… It’s a lick from the solo of “Al’s Blues,” which just happens to be one of...

by Griff

Lessons

March 15, 202115Comments

Lots Of Sounds In One Place

Most guitar players… and it seems especially blues players… Have this goal of “mastering the fretboard,” which sounds really cool, until you try to...

by Griff

Lessons

March 12, 20215Comments

Digging In To “Follow The Chord”

The other day I did a post about different approaches you can use when the chord progression you are soloing over is not a blues… And by FAR the question I got the most...

by Griff

Lessons

March 10, 202119Comments

How To Solo Over Bluesy Tunes

I get a lot of questions about “blues” tunes that aren’t actually blues… Sure, they are really “bluesy,” but they aren’t an actual...

by Griff

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