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October 15, 201923Comments

Beginners – Easy Blues Turnaround Ideas

If you are familiar with the popular 'Blues In E" type of blues riff, then you've come across a turnaround before - even if you didn't know it. The turnaround is

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Lessons

October 6, 201910Comments

Turning A Classic Rock Lick Into A Blues Lick (Walk This Way)

So, this is cool, because I get to kill 2 birds with one stone... I love great classic rock licks, and this sure is one of those :) Plus, I get to

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Lessons

October 2, 201917Comments

The Chuck Berry Double Stop Lick

Many of my students want to learn to play Chuck Berry licks... and for good reason! But, they usually struggle because of 2 issues: 1 - the bends aren't happening 2- the timing

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Lessons

September 30, 201924Comments

Easy Boogie Woogie Blues Riff

This is a simple, boogie style blues riff that should suit most beginning and early intermediate blues guitar players. It uses a 12 bar blues in E, with a simple riff

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Lessons

September 27, 201946Comments

Harmonizing Double Stops Using Chord Scales (Huh?)

Yup... it's another episode of "Theory Fun Time" where we're going to learn how to do something really cool... ... because of a little music theory :) Theory is great, and I

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Practicing

September 23, 201940Comments

How To Ingrain Moves

It's hard to describe exactly what this video is, but it came from someone asking me if I make all these different changes without thinking about it... and the answer

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Lessons

September 19, 201926Comments

12 Bar Blues In Any Key

A lot of my students that I see get hung up on only playing the blues in the "standard" keys of A, or E... And in most cases it's pretty simple

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Lessons

September 16, 201952Comments

Guitar Lesson The Major Scale On Guitar

One of the biggest debates I see in blues-land is the debate about music theory... And while I'm a big theory geek, and love it, I realize it ain't for everyone.

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Lessons

September 13, 201939Comments

Walking By Myself Solo Arrangement

I love this old Jimmy Reed classic... and though you might know it done by Gary Moore, it lends itself to playing acoustic and singing along, accompanying your own voice. So

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Lessons

September 9, 201919Comments

Fire!

Admittedly, I've played this song for a lot of years, and I've probably forgotten (or ignored) some of the particular, finer details :) However, this is how I play it (never

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