Griff – Page 48 – Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog

October 7, 2015271Comments

It’s Called Playing Guitar For A Reason…

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

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Lessons

September 21, 201562Comments

Can’t You See?

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

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discussion

September 18, 201529Comments

I Guarantee It…

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

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Lessons

September 13, 201544Comments

Right Hand Muting

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

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Lessons

September 5, 201576Comments

Random Blues Songs…

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

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Lessons

August 31, 201551Comments

3 Licks From Somewhere (Possibly) New…

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

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Blues Artists

discussion

August 27, 201553Comments

A Lesson From SRV…

Yesterday marked the 25th Anniversary of the plane crash that took Stevie Ray Vaughan from us many years too early... Stevie was a huge influence on me growing up, and the

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Recommendations

August 20, 201576Comments

Where You At?

I used to love those commercials where it just went from one guy to the next talking to each other saying, "hey, where you at?" Maybe you've never seen it... I'm

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Lessons

August 11, 201550Comments

How To End A Blues Tune

While we covered what I call the "Basie ending" in the "Tore Down" lesson, there is another ending that comes up quite a bit and you should know it. It doesn't

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discussion

August 10, 201553Comments

The 3 Gig Rule

I'll be honest... I was pretty sure I'd written this article before now, but if Google can't find it then I guess it doesn't exist :) Here's the problem, you just

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