Many times over the years I've heard the question, "How do you start your blues solos?"
And for the longest time, I didn't really know how to answer that. After all
Do you play acoustic or electric guitar?
That's a question I get a lot, and it often goes hand in hand with, "What's the difference between Blues Guitar Unleashed and Acoustic
When I first moved to California I figured I'd better learn how to surf... so I grabbed a board and headed out into the ocean.
And, as you can probably guess,
Once upon a time I asked about Roadmaps and what ya'll want to learn... and one of the most common requests was about playing and singing at the same time.
Well
Sometimes it's easy to get bogged down with practicing...
Even Jimi Hendrix is quoted as saying,
"Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick
Today's video is one of my off-the-cuff "video blog" posts, because sometimes it's just easier to show you than tell you something :)
One of my students was asking about the
Let's face it, there aren't a lot of guarantees in the world that are worth much anymore...
So one thing I work hard at is keeping things organized in such a
An important technical element for both beginning and more experienced playing is the use of the picking hand to keep ringing notes under control...
In fact, what you may not have
This is a little bit of an off the cuff kind of thing... and you'll notice it's more "blog" than "video" because it's just in my office...
But in this video
One of the biggest elements of my Major Minor Blues Shapes course (among others) is the idea of focusing on root notes in the box patterns and learning to comfortably