Griff – Page 27 – Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog

April 8, 201940Comments

How To Find All 5 Boxes – No Matter What Key

Certainly in people that I work with every day, wrapping your head around "the boxes" and being able to truly find all of the possible places to play your pentatonic/blues

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Lessons

April 7, 201923Comments

BB King 4 Note Lick

There are very few blues players that can do what BB King did... He could play just a handful of notes with more soul than most of us will ever be

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Lessons

April 5, 201919Comments

How To Find I, IV, And V – And More…

In this video, filmed live, we'll talk about how you use the major scale, and some basic music theory to find the I, IV, and V chords in any key

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Lessons

April 3, 201920Comments

Blues Phrasing Using Rhythm Figures

This is a lesson aimed at anyone trying to do some blues soloing, but struggling to make sense with what you're playing. It's easy to just throw stuff against a wall

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Lessons

March 28, 201920Comments

Fun With BOTH Blue Notes

Today's little blues soloing lesson is another situation sort of like the 4 note solo... If you can find your root note, you can put not only the 3rd, and 5th

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Practicing

March 26, 201913Comments

Keeping Notes Ringing

Many beginning and lower-intermediate guitar players I work with have a tendency to cut all the notes short... and it's just one of those things the separates the pros from

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Lessons

March 24, 201927Comments

Finding Major Pentatonics From A Shape Barre Chords

If you know the Major Pentatonic/Blues Scale, chances are you only know it from a 6th string root, which is fine until you need one from a 5th string root... Here

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Lessons

March 20, 201931Comments

3 BB King Licks That Don’t Use The House Pattern

When most folks talk about how BB King solos, they tend to refer to what I call the "house" pattern, sometimes also known as the "BB Box." It's basically a grouping

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Practicing

March 14, 201943Comments

You Might Be Practicing Your Boxes Wrong

I'm not sure how else to put it... but most of us learn the "boxes" of the pentatonic/blues scale in a way that... isn't actually all that useful to us

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Lessons

March 11, 201919Comments

When It All Goes South :(

I make no bones about the fact that, for me, playing in a group, with a band, at a jam, or even just with a friend or two - is

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