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March 25, 202015Comments

First Finger Bends!

I know that I'm usually the first person to say, "Don't bend with your first finger, that just doesn't feel good and it's hard." That hasn't really changed, but there *are*

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Lessons

March 23, 202040Comments

C Chord Variations And Fills

I often hear from students how they want to learn to embellish chords, so that's what we'll talk about in this video... I was inspired by "The Weight," by The Band,

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Gear

March 22, 202028Comments

Pedalboard Rundown 3-21-2020

Since I can't go out, I've been doing some updates to gear and I thought it would be a good chance to show you what I'm running currently, and why. Signal

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Lessons

March 18, 202012Comments

Playing “Follow The Chord” A Little Over Blues/Rock Changes

For blues and blues/rock soloing, many times we take a simple approach of just using the minor pentatonic/blues scale for the whole thing... And while that works over 12 bar blues

March 16, 202032Comments

The Roles Your Blues Notes Play…

A lot of people might call these the "intervals" of the blues scale, but these aren't intervals to me because they don't involve a distance between 2 notes... Instead, I think

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Lessons

February 27, 202039Comments

2nd String Box 2 To Box 1 Move

There's just no cool, fancy word I can come up with for today's "move" and accompanying lick... So I guess I'll just have to show you how it goes :)

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Uncategorized

February 26, 202053Comments

NGD

EDIT: This was back in February, 2020. I've added the video from Norm's with Angela at the bottom. So... I hope you'll indulge me a little because I had one of

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Lessons

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, 20209Comments

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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