Griff – Page 20 – Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog

January 26, 20202Comments

Melodic Devices For Creating Lines

Of all the "tricks" that guitar players use to create more interesting lines, this one probably took me the longest to figure out... And you can call them lines or licks,

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Lessons

January 24, 20207Comments

The Blues Half Step Scale – The Altered Dominant Sound

In talking about more Modern Blues Soloing, and getting away from the standard Pentatonic and Blues scales for a bit, one of the things we have to discuss is the

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Lessons

January 22, 20208Comments

The Lydian Dominant Sound

Surprisingly to many blues players, the minor pentatonic and blues scales aren't actually the best fit for a lot of chords we play... In general, the minor pentatonic works everywhere (over

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Lessons

January 20, 20207Comments

Borrowing Arpeggios…

This is a concept that I hear a lot in playing by modern blues players like Matt Schofield, Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, and others. It involves using a bit of music

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Lessons

January 17, 202015Comments

Jazz It Up – The I VI II V Turnaround (and more)

In a previous video we talked about using a ii-V instead of the V-VI in bars 9 and 10 of the 12 bar blues.... And in that video, I mentioned that

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Lessons

January 15, 202012Comments

That ii V Move In A Blues…

In this blues guitar lesson we'll talk about one of the common-er jazz/jump style variations. It's a ii-V (two-five) move over bars 9 and 10 of the 12 bar blues form...

January 14, 202022Comments

Pick, Fingers, Claw… Yes!

Albert King always used his fingers to pluck the strings... Stevie Ray Vaughan pretty much always used a pick... Robben Ford uses sort of a "claw" with both the pick and his

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Practicing

January 13, 202018Comments

How To Use A Metronome

Too many people think that using the metronome is the first thing you should reach for when you practice... And NOTHING could be further from the truth. Sure, there are a LOT

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discussion

January 12, 202023Comments

What Makes Blues…. Blues?

Ever wonder what it is about music that makes it sound, "bluesy?" Obviously some music is a 12 bar blues form, so it's technically, "a blues," but there is a LOT

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Lessons

January 10, 202020Comments

Brown Sugar Tweedly Noodling

This is kind of hard to explain, but I think you'll find it fun... One of my students was asking about the intro to ZZ Top's tune, "Brown Sugar," and there

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