June 5, 202025Comments

Soloing Levels For Knowing What To Practice

I get this all the time… “I want to improve my blues soloing…” Yeah, I get that, but exactly *how* do you intend to do that? And, what is...

by Griff

Lessons

Practicing

May 29, 202011Comments

END Your Scales On Beat 1

Most folks, when practicing scales, start playing on beat 1 and play through the scale… And while that makes sense academically, it often doesn’t make sense...

by Griff

Lessons

May 27, 20207Comments

The World To The Left…

If you play blues guitar solos, you probably know good old “box 1″… But that gets you really used to looking at the world from the right… Instead,...

by Griff

Lessons

May 22, 202022Comments

Double Time G Cadd9 Emin7 D

While I realize this is Blues Guitar Unleashed…. I’d be doing you a disservice if I didn’t talk about something that is important for guitar playing…...

by Griff

discussion

Lessons

May 12, 202015Comments

Jon Mayer Agrees With Me

In the guitar community, when Jon Mayer speaks… a whole lot of folks listen 🙂 Now, maybe you’re a fan, and maybe you’re not, but Jon’s a great player...

by Griff

Lessons

May 8, 202032Comments

Zep – Since I’ve Been Loving You

Again crossing over onto the “Classic Rock Unleashed” side, we’re going to look at the chord progression, and some soloing ideas, from Led Zeppelin’s...

by Griff

Lessons

May 4, 202019Comments

How To Play Mississippi Queen

This is a song I always dug because it’s just one of those classic 12 bar blues rock songs that you might not know is just a 12 bar blues at heart. The basic riff is all...

by Griff

Lessons

May 1, 20208Comments

Using The BB Box House Pattern And Switching Major and Minor

It’s tempting to call this the “3 note solo,” but since I already did a 4 note solo, that might be a little silly 🙂 Seriously, though, this is a really...

by Griff

Lessons

April 30, 202014Comments

Using The Dorian Mode

While you *can* use the Dorian scale over a 12 bar blues… that’s not the most common way I see it used. More often than not, I see it used over...

by Griff

Lessons

April 24, 202024Comments

Pivoting Between Sounds

This is a fun little project to try if you struggle with: 1 – Switching between the major and minor blues sounds… 2 – Counting the 12 bar blues (or getting...

by Griff

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