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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, 201919Comments

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, 201930Comments

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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Blues Artists

April 16, 2019141Comments

The New Album Is Coming!!!

I think it's only been about 7 years, or so, that I've been talking about doing a new album (and only 19 years since my last one...) But the wait is

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Lessons

April 10, 201944Comments

Soloing In E Without Box 1

This is a short video based on a question from a viewer who was struggling with soloing over a blues in E... which I understand (because I had the same

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discussion

Practicing

April 8, 201943Comments

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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