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May 17, 202212Comments

Fills For The Noodle Machine

One of the cool things about using simple chord progressions that aren't in the blues format, is that you can chase each major chord with a major pentatonic scale... And for

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Lessons

May 10, 202223Comments

Pentatonics From A 5th String Root

This is one of those little mindshifts that was so helpful to me as a young man growing up learning to solo through chord changes... We usually learn the pentatonic and

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Lessons

May 3, 20225Comments

Count The Uncountable

I talk about counting ALL the time... and I'm well aware of that... However, I'll be the first to admit that there are some times, particularly in a slow blues, where

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Lessons

April 26, 202214Comments

Let’s Build A Blues

While this isn't the first time I've talked about this type of format for an acoustic blues... This is the first time I've approached it using basically just one or two

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Lessons

April 20, 202211Comments

Playing Behind The Muting Fingers

One of the more difficult, but important techniques you need to play with a heavy picking hand in the style of SRV or KWS is the ability to play "behind"

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Gear

April 12, 202226Comments

Stacking Overdrives For Levels Of Gain

Not so much a lesson in technique or style as tone chasing... As much as I love a cranked up vintage or modern amplifier, that's not often practical and I've come

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April 5, 202211Comments

Adding In ALL The Blue Notes

We often talk about the blues scale, but we don't often talk about the "blue" note and how we get it... With a little knowledge, you can actually add not just

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Practicing

March 29, 202229Comments

Shedding The Beginner’s Mindset

In working with so many thousands of students over the last 30+ years, there are a few common things that beginners do out of necessity... But there also comes a point

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Lessons

March 22, 20229Comments

Moving House Pattern To Box 3 To Pentatonic 6 Sound

This video is one of my favorite "moves" around and through some of my favorite blues soloing scales and sounds. If you've ever heard me talk about what I call the,

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Lessons

March 15, 202216Comments

The 4 7th Chord Shapes You Should Know

Today is more for the beginners... The blues typically revolves around 7th chords... not major 7th, and no minor 7th, but dominant 7th chords. Those chords can come in a few different

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