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February 27, 20244Comments

THP Preview Video 5 – Lick #4

Today's lick also comes from "The House Pattern," but utilizes something I like to call, "The Big Bend." Albert King, Freddie King, BB King, Clapton - they all use this technique

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Lessons

February 26, 20241Comments

THP 4 – House Pattern Lick 3

Let's learn another fun new lick from one of my favorite patterns, the "House Pattern." This one makes use of the blue note, which is a fun note you can add

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February 25, 20247Comments

THP 3 House Pattern Lick 2

Let's learn another fun new lick from one of my favorite patterns, the "House Pattern." It's a pattern I see used in blues, extensively, but also in country and classic rock.

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Lessons

February 24, 202411Comments

THP 2 House Pattern Lick 1

Let's learn a fun new lick from one of my favorite patterns, the "House Pattern." Check it out, this is a classic pattern for mixing the major and minor blues sounds

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Lessons

February 23, 202413Comments

THP-1-The-House-Pattern

What I affectionately call, "The House Pattern," is one of my favorite blues soloing patterns, but it's one that is so often misunderstood... It's not any *one* particular scale, or sound,

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January 11, 20248Comments

One Riff Does Not A Song Make

Today I'm tackling that age old issue... "Griff, why don't you teach us 'real' songs?" I do, all the time, you just have to know how songs really work, so watch this: In

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January 5, 20244Comments

Building Blues Shuffle Rhythms Lesson

As much as I love playing leads and solos, your meat and potatoes of blues playing is going to be playing rhythm... Whether you want to call it strumming or comping

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Lessons

November 21, 202320Comments

“How Long” Acoustic Blues Song Lesson

I do an acoustic blues duo with a buddy of mine once or twice a month on Sundays at a place down in Grapevine... One day Joey pulled this out and

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November 12, 202318Comments

My New Screamer

It's gear day here at BGU, and I want to tell you about a new pedal I've been using in place of my tried-and-true tube screamer... Now then, here's the cool

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Lessons

October 6, 20237Comments

Turning Blues Chords Into Blues Solos

In this video I'll show you how I take the same basic chords that I always use and turn them into soloing tools. This is a style of soloing I really

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