Fancy New Practicing Tool
As you may know, I’m a big fan of a product called Video Surgeon… I’ve been using it for years… As a teacher, it’s a life saver when it comes to...
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Chasing Chords Without Changing Scales
As I often like to say, the pentatonic/blues scale is never wrong, when you solo over a blues… But you can be right-er, at certain times 😉 In this video, you’ll...
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Cream Era Clapton Crossroads Major Blues Lick
I often get requests for more “major blues” licks, and this is a good one from Clapton’s performance of “Crossroads,” with Cream… In...
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The Big Bend With Clapton
I’ve been learning and transcribing an enormous amount of Cream Era Clapton over the last several months for a new course… And one of the reasons I chose these...
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Why Your Licks Don’t Work When You Jam
First off… yes, there’s a cool lick in today’s video and I hope you’ll learn in… BUT… Don’t stop there! Most of the...
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A Little Rhythm Goes A Long Way
Most folks, when soloing, tend to focus primarily on the notes they use… But I often argue that the rhythm is far more important, and almost no one thinks about it at...
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Christmas Time With BB King
This is one of my personal favorite Christmas songs by one of my biggest heroes, BB King… It’s called, “Back Door Santa,” and obviously it’s his...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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