A Clapton Blueprint
When I was learning to solo, there were a lot of licks and solos that I either couldn't play, or couldn't figure out by ear (remember, this was before the
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Harmonized Blues In E Groove
If you're stuck with the regular old, "Blues In E," groove, then I've got something fun for you today...
What typically makes this tricky is the picking hand... I use my
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A Solution Looking For A Problem…
I often say that most people learn guitar as a series of solutions looking for a problem...
And it'll go a lot faster if you can solve problems instead of looking
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Subdividing Beats Workout
In my experience, only a small handful of folks will actually try and do today's lesson more than twice...
Which is unfortunate, because I would argue it's the skill that most
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The Stairway Changes
While this is obviously not a lesson on how to play Stairway To Heaven, or the solo from that tune...
It was the first song where I learned this set of
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Dropping In The Dorian Scale
I often get asked about using modes with the blues, and there aren't a lot of simple, easy answers...
Except this one.
The Dorian Mode (the 2nd mode of the major scale)
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ZZ Top’s “I Thank You”
I know I don't typically do "song lessons," but this one is a great demonstration of a simple idea in the solo that gets repeated with great effect.
And, of course,
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My Process For Learning Difficult Licks
This is probably time to grab some coffee and sit back and watch, first...
I've been working on a difficult solo, and I wanted to show you step-by-step how I take
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Angus Young’s “Turn” Around The Blue Note
I'm a huge Angus Young fan... he was, arguably, my first guitar hero way back in the late 1970s...
And what I've come to learn as I've gotten more into the
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The Funky Blues Strum Pattern You Might Be Playing Wrong
Well, maybe we're doing Funk Guitar Unleashed today ;)
Seriously, though, this strumming idea comes up in both funky styles of blues, and straight up, James Brown style funk guitar...
It even
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