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June 8, 201924Comments

Now Look What You’ve Done…

"Now Look What You've Done..." That was the subject of an email I received from a BGU member in Virginia... I was intrigued... Inside the email was the following: "After spending 30-ish years

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Lessons

May 31, 201931Comments

Practicing For Better Rhythm In Solos…

Being able to play in different beat subdivisions is a HUGE part of playing and soloing effectively... After all, you only have two things to work with, the order of the

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Lessons

May 28, 201920Comments

Mixing Major And Minor In 1st Position

Mixing up the Major and Minor Blues sounds can be essential to really nailing the blues sound... ... but it can also be a big pain in the neck! When do you

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Lessons

May 21, 201937Comments

Rory Gallagher Blues Rock Riff

This riff came from a Rory Gallagher recording, but I've heard it (or variations of it) in many songs over the years (CCR comes to mind, even though I can't

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Blues Artists

discussion

May 11, 201940Comments

These Women Play The Blues

Since it happens to be Mother's Day, I thought it might be a good time to celebrate some of the female blues guitar players out there... Generally speaking, there aren't nearly

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Practicing

May 7, 201919Comments

Getting Your Hands Back

For whatever reason, we all have to spend some time away from our guitars... It's never fun, but it happens. Maybe it's an injury, maybe it's work travel... Maybe it's just that

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Lessons

Practicing

May 6, 201918Comments

Playing “Acoustic” On Electric

These last few days we've been talking a lot about "acoustic" blues, in the sense that it's blues you play by yourself - and not with a band... But I really

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Uncategorized

April 27, 201961Comments

Holy Smokes We Did It – Thank You!!!!

Wow! What a day yesterday... in case you didn't hear, our new album, I'll Drink To That, hit #1 on the iTunes blues charts!!! Thank you so very much for all

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Lessons

April 22, 201924Comments

Twisting Up A Jimmy Page Lick

Let's take a simple, 4 note Jimmy Page style sequence of minor pentatonic notes, and look at some quick ways we can manipulate it into some different sounds without changing

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Lessons

April 17, 201928Comments

That Texas “Chunka Chunka” Rhythm Thing…

In today's lesson we'll talk about how to get that Texas-style "chunk" out of your blues rhythms. Also, we'll talk about where a lot of those different classic riffs in the

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