March 30, 202026Comments

Hide Away – Freddie King

While this is a fun little melody to learn and a cool tune… I have an ulterior motive for showing it to you 🙂 We often talk about “playing on the porch”...

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discussion

March 27, 202029Comments

“Ask Griff” Live on 3-27-2020

So… some Q&A, a little bourbon, and some noodling happened on the Facebooks and the YouTubes yesterday afternoon. In case you missed it, here you go! By the way,...

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Lessons

March 26, 202021Comments

A Beginning Blues “Project” For You

This video is a little more of a project for you, if you’re a beginning guitar player. In order to be able to play with other people (really, in order to be able to play...

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Lessons

March 25, 20209Comments

First Finger Bends!

I know that I’m usually the first person to say, “Don’t bend with your first finger, that just doesn’t feel good and it’s hard.” That...

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Lessons

March 23, 202031Comments

C Chord Variations And Fills

I often hear from students how they want to learn to embellish chords, so that’s what we’ll talk about in this video… I was inspired by “The...

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Gear

March 22, 202015Comments

Pedalboard Rundown 3-21-2020

Since I can’t go out, I’ve been doing some updates to gear and I thought it would be a good chance to show you what I’m running currently, and why. Signal...

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Lessons

March 18, 20205Comments

Playing “Follow The Chord” A Little Over Blues/Rock Changes

For blues and blues/rock soloing, many times we take a simple approach of just using the minor pentatonic/blues scale for the whole thing… And while that works over 12...

March 16, 202023Comments

The Roles Your Blues Notes Play…

A lot of people might call these the “intervals” of the blues scale, but these aren’t intervals to me because they don’t involve a distance between 2...

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