Happy 2018!
Yes, it's the end of 2017 in a few hours... hard to believe.
This has been such an enormous year here at "BGU HQ" that I thought I'd recap a couple
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Merry Christmas Baby – Slow Blues
So the other day I was Christmas shopping with my wife and this song came on the background music. What caught my ear was how it's a lesson straight out
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Mixing Arpeggios And Blues Scales
In this last video on our series about blues and arpeggios we're going to mix together the sound of the minor blues scale (or pentatonic minor, same thing) and the
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Blues-i-fy Your Arpeggios
When you play the 7th arpeggios we learned yesterday, it's easy to make them sound blocky and not very much like the blues. In this video I'll show you how to blues-i-fy your arpeggios to start making them sound like real blues music.
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Three 7th Arpeggio Shapes You Should Know
In my course, Chord By Chord Blues Soloing, we utilize a lot of arpeggios of Dominant 7th chords (the type of chords most often used in the blues.)
Arpeggios are such
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The 5 Boxes? Now What?
Yesterday I read a question on an online Facebook group about the 5 boxes which (basically) read...
"I've learned the 5 pentatonic boxes, now what?"
Which, sadly, is an extremely common question...
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Peter Green Shuffle Lick
Ain't nothing today but a fun Peter Green lick I swiped for you from my Blues Solo Construction Kit course...
Learn it, use it, love it!
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Key To The Highway – Easy Arrangement
Similar to what we did with Hoochie Coochie Man a while back, let's look at an easy way to play the classic 8 bar blues, Key To The Highway...
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The C7 Grip Chord
This is a short video today (I think it's under 3 minutes) but it's one of my favorite chord shapes and I so rarely see it used!
I hope you can
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BGU Solo 1 As A Shuffle
Sometimes it's easy to miss the forest for the trees... so I like to point out times when you can take something that you might already have down, and show
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